Scots could have some of the ‘cheapest electricity in Europe’, says top energy CEO. The boss of Octopus Energy has said switching to zonal pricing would give Scotland some of the “cheapest electricity in Europe”.

by bottish

10 comments

  1. > “If you change the price, you get more demand in the regions it’s cheap. Things like data centres or heavy industries will usually move there.

    > “This is what they do in Scandinavia and they’ve seen huge success. Scotland, parts of England, Wales, would have some of the cheapest electricity in Europe.

    > “And you’d see industry coming back that’s been leaving these shores.”

    …

    > “Today, isn’t it crazy that Scotland and poorer parts of England and Wales have got the highest standing charges?

    > “So, they generate the most electricity [but] they don’t benefit from that. They pay the highest standing charges.

  3. Ah yes but then how could we be ripped off? See the flaw in that plan? Gotta keep the common person down, even to the detriment of the country. It’s character building!

  4. What, really?? The Scotland that produces the most renewable energy in Europe? The Scotland that has oil and gas reserves in THEIR North Sea?

    Doesn’t all of that belong to Westminster?

    Why would Scotland want cheap bills?

  5. I’ll believe it when I see it. Despite us having all the oil and gas and using our land (and sea) to house increasingly massive wind farms, we see absolutely fuck all benefit.

  6. Would also discourage NIMBYISM if locals actually saw a benefit to having a power plant in their area. Did coaltowns get discounted/free coal back in the day?

  7. Drives me fucking nuts

    There’s 150,000 odd people in Dumfries and Galloway

    And enough wind turbines to power half of fucking Europe by the feel of it. I can see the fuckers from my window hundreds of them…..and yet my cheapest energy was with EDF and has doubled in recent years

    Just fuck off

  8. No no no no.

    The current system has been handed down from the very Gods at Westminster.

    It is the only way (until they decide to change it)

  9. That sounds like the kind of zonal pricing that shareholders and bank managers wouldn’t let happen.

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