Showing posts with label OFGEM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OFGEM. Show all posts
Sunday, 14 February 2016

Energy companies hid behind hedges to keep prices high. Now the hedges have gone, what's their excuse?

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Regulators in Britain, including OFGEM (energy companies) and the FCA (financial companies), are powerless to stop many rip-offs because...
Sunday, 10 January 2016

OFGEM is extremely relaxed about Wholesale profiteering by the Big Six energy companies.

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Pity the poor executives of OFGEM, Tweedledum to the FCA’s Tweedledee. Both OFGEM (Office of Gas and Electricity Markets), regulator of the...
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Saturday, 22 November 2014

Graphs at a glance: Will fracking bring cheap energy to Britain? The evidence suggest not.

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There has been a lot of talk about fracking the UK. Our government is so keen it has considered changing the law on trespass to make it eas...
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Friday, 30 May 2014

OFGEM to investigate British Gas for paying salesmen bonuses for inflating business customers’ bills

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Including the Royal British Legion! KJ learns more from his mate, a British Gas salesman...
Saturday, 17 May 2014

Regulation in Britain: Compare and contrast regulation of Citizens and of Companies. Company executives pay piffling fines, ordinary citizens do jail time.

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In May 2014 the energy regulator OFGEM boasted about its latest ‘record fine’: £12 million inflicted on E.on. OFGEM’s press release stated...
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Saturday, 29 March 2014

Graphs at a glance: Financial regulation in the USA and the UK: Federal Marshal versus Sleeping Policeman

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Winston Churchill said of America: “You can always rely on America to do the right thing once it has exhausted all the alternative...
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Friday, 28 March 2014

Operating a profiteering cartel is a criminal offence. So if 6,000 die from fuel poverty each year, will manslaughter charges be next?

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Fee, KJ and Chris wonder what will happen next to the "Big 6" energy firms...
Saturday, 15 March 2014

Graphs at a glance: Wholesale energy price data from OFGEM and NPower show the key excuse for energy price hikes has been a fib

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA, previously the FSA) and OFGEM are the pantomime twins of regulation in Britain: Tweedle-dumb and Tweed...
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Friday, 24 January 2014

Are we being overcharged by up to £4bn? OFGEM, the energy regulator, says they have no idea

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But Chris, KJ and Fee think they do...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

Excuses for being completely useless - Regulators (OFGEM; FCA/FSA; OFTEL et al), here are some good excuses for not doing your homework

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In January 2014 the Labour Party issued another report, “ Powering Britain: One Nation Labour’s plans to reset the energy market ”. The r...
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Saturday, 11 January 2014

Graphs at a glance: Cambridge University study shows fewer than 1 in 10 members of the public trust or regard as ethical banks and energy companies

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The relationship between British Industry and British Government is the same as that between a dominatrix and her clients. Plenty of shoutin...
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Friday, 25 October 2013

Over 5,000 elderly and sick will die this winter because they can’t afford to heat their homes

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KJ has a beer with a pal...
Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Graphs at a glance: OFGEM finally does something useful by publishing wholesale energy prices! See energy companies' bogus reason for hiking prices exposed!

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This is no laughing matter, so lets skip the levity. OFGEM, one of the few organisations in Britain that manages to make the FCA (formerly t...
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Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Thinking of switching energy supplier? Out of the frying pan...

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Graphs at a glance: Energy companies' price hike tactics make switching futile

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The government's answer to gouging energy companies is to switch. In David Cameron's words : “There is something everyone can d...
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Sunday, 29 September 2013

Graphs at a glance: how electricity and gas bill promises from Miliband and Cameron are just yet more hot air and flatulence

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Did Ed Miliband, speaking at the 2013 Labour Party Conference, actually believe his promise to  freeze the price of electricity and gas  ...
Friday, 27 September 2013

Both socialists and neo-liberals should ally to stop the "Big Six" energy firms' rip-off

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Fee and Chris explain it all to KJ...
Saturday, 3 August 2013

Graphs at a glance: households in fuel poverty tripled in a decade

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From a report by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change : "Rising energy costs are the major factor in ...
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Graphs at a glance: mortality rises by 19% in England's winter. One in five of these excess deaths are caused by cold homes.

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UPDATE NOV 2016: In 2012 so-called “avoidable” winter deaths were at 24,000. Since then the death rate has almost doubled. According to the...
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