Electricity and gas: You choose!

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From July 1st 2007, it will be possible for household customers throughout the European Union to choose their electricity and gas suppliers.
In exercising this choice, which is not an obligation, consumers are boosting competition between energy suppliers --and that has to be to their advantage.
To be able to make really informed choices, customers need to have access to detailed and open information. This right to information, along with other fundamental rights which guarantee consumer protection, will be included in a future European Charter on the Rights of Energy Consumers.
This video shows the situation in Great Britain where the electricity and gas markets have been opened up to competition for domestic consumers for several years now and in the Wallonia Region of Belgium where liberalisation was introduced on January 1st 2007.
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Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: July 2, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Author: eutube

Length: 00:09:41
Rating: 4.15
Views: 76239

Tags: eutube Electricity Gas Competition Domestic Consumers Energy European Commission

Video Comments:
AliasUndercover (August 30, 2008 at 10:20 am)
Oh yes, let the market set the price like it did in California. I'm sure $10,000 a kilowatt hour isn't too expensive for you guys.
cultintal (August 5, 2008 at 7:03 pm)
I don't think a liberalised market would make energy cheaper in the long run. As EU countries have enough stability to hold prices at a fixed rate: for them loosing money on energy should not be a problem, in opposition to a company which actual purpose is to make money. With this kind of market, a simple crisis can make the prices climb pretty high.

These may be my socialist feeling awakening, but I believe the state is here to give lasting cheap commodities. A company is here to make money.
AG0525 (July 30, 2008 at 6:41 pm)
At the end, all this liberasation means that goverments will force energy distributors to allow one more distributor ... so you electrisity bill could look like: Nuclear fac/windmill + main high voltage distributor + smaller distributor + another distributor + local distributor + street distributor + your neighbour. Wow ... no wonder the electristy prices wil skyrocket, even having in mind that production cost will not be so high. The video shows only one side and doesnt go deeper enough.
wutru (July 1, 2008 at 6:24 am)
lol @ socialism
workstationnumlock (May 5, 2008 at 12:40 pm)
Two observations:

1) I haven't seen one positive comment about the liberalisation. I think most people posting are Continental Europeans, but still...
2) The video talks about "Britain, where there has been liberalisation for several years now". Yes, that would be since Thatcher privatised the industry in *1989*, *before the European Union even existed*.
rmir2 (February 16, 2008 at 8:59 pm)
Where is NORDSTREAM in this presentation? The real purpose is to make us dependent of russian energy supplies - just like drug addicts. It is good old Stalinist policy in a new packet. But we DONT WANT IT
ctel2009 (November 12, 2007 at 5:03 am)
Yes if people abide by a fair set of rules.
Like a good sporting game people can win.
That is why I am involved in an Energy company.
You can click on my name and see the sites.
If you now anyone in NYC or Texas it is in thier intrest to get the right information.
Will we be in Europe? We will see. Events in USA will mimic the markets in the EU.
ctel2009 (November 12, 2007 at 4:47 am)
I agree that is why I am in the energy business in America with a unique idea that
is open to all. A truly grass root effort
and we are just getting started.
JMP98251 (September 7, 2007 at 2:39 pm)
so where are you from? Limburg joined the treaty of Utrecht (in the form of Maastricht and surrounding land at that time) so did zeeuws Vlaanderen and Brabant. those where freed from the spansih after the 80 years war while the current belgium was still under spanish rule. so they are most certainly part of The Netherlands and not Belgium.
allgoodnickstaken (September 1, 2007 at 8:29 pm)
so what is the difference for me as a customer? what are the different gases and powers are you offering me?