Not surprising at all. Price caps aside, nuclear is France’s main source of power and has been for decades. It comes with a different set of challenges, but it means fluctuating prices of oil and gas (and coal) do not hit them as hard as they hit us.
At least we don’t have nationalised power companies in the UK!!!!111
**turns gammonny pink**
Headline should read French energy rise **capped** at 4% compared to 54% by Ofgem
EDF will lose around €7- €8bn because of this.
EDF also owns one-fifth of UK electricity market supply.
Because its a French company, so we’re subsidising their cheap fuel. Happy days.
Tories don’t support state owned energy…. Unless the energy company in the UK is owned by a foreign state
At least we don’t have that many nuclear reactors, “atom bad 🤓”
I was supporting nuclear energy for years and everyone was reacting like it is a stinking egg
Subsidised by the tax payer. Either way the consumer pays.
Electricité de France is owned by the French state. It has a duty to protect French citizens. It can do this by shafting the dumbfucks in the UK who voted for a woman that chose to privatise the national energy companies.
Thanks Maggie, thanks Tories.
This is the same as the trains. Europe run theirs efficiently and still make a profit. They take these profits, buy our shit and then rinse the fuck out of us.
Isn’t this because the overwhelming proportion of French energy comes from nuclear and renewables instead of gas?
Because their awful government said it could only rise by 4%! No doubt the EU was interfering in their sovereignty!
Thank god we took back control, now our government has the freedom to…..let us rot apparently
So basically…
Nationalised French EDF = has to take a profits hit
Privatised British EDF = skins the public alive to maintain profits
Perfect example of why we need some kind of windfall tax
Thanks uk government. Royally fucking us up the arse whilst wringing us out. Disgusting country.
Does anyone have a really realy ridiculously long extension lead I could borrow?
It’s because the French people wouldn’t take this shit. We do.
They don’t need to put French prices up, because we’re paying the difference!
Definitely worth privatising energy .. I hate our government
Whatever the solution the very worst action is to let the cost of this fall on the consumer. In a country like the UK that is insanity.
Conservative voters don’t actually care about the economy. That’s because most of them are shielded from the impact of a failing economy by a Conservative government who dump the failure elsewhere.
Conservative voters are probably right in feeling they would lose out if the Conservatives lost power. No more Tory Welfare.
My entire Facebook feed is people having a meltdown over their price rises. Watch suicides rocket even worse this year.
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I’m on a fixed price til Aug 22. Out of interest I checked the tariffs my current provider is currently offering.
My £148 direct debit and £2500 usage a year somehow became £520 a month and £6238 usage 🤢
That would be 30% of my monthly salary on gas/elec alone.
No one on here has any idea what they’re talking about do they?
We pay more because of the increased price cap, which only happened as otherwise every energy company in the country would go bust.
Would be nice if we didn’t have a government that fucked us over like France and let companies force millions into poverty.
Like when people moaning here but nobody has a courage to go out and protest, strike. So they milk the cow as long as they can.
Maybe it’s because EDF knooows that if it tried to pull the same bullshit in france, the french would collectively kick their arses. We have no real deterrent to stop them from taking the piss and they are pushing their luck to see how much they can get away with until the government gives them a bollucking. So pretty much expect a 100% increase by the end of the year.
And the unit rates resulting in the cap rise are calculated based on most expensive unit delivered, no average rate of unit delivered. The rise we’ve been saddled with is at least partially artificial and the result of bad policies that could be changed tomorrow.
It elections year in France. Of course the electricity won’t rise by 50%.
British energy security strategy! Sell anything and everything to do with energy to private companies who will increase profits by increasing costs to consumers whilst lowering their own costs through minimum investment in staff and structure!
Why do people keep on complaining about all the shit that keeps happening yet still keep on voting Conservative?
>Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
>
>–Albert Einstein
Of course you have some people who blame the French!!!:
So the French will just pay for higher energy costs through taxes?
We have an endless supply of coal, China builds a new coal power plant every week, but we can’t supply cheap power to ourselves?. I know environment is concern, but will it really make a difference when we’re on the brink of nuclear war ?
And if Maggie hadn’t sold the North Sea oil fields you’d be sitting on a about a trillion in sovereign wealth.
Their profit in the UK goes to cut bill in France.
This is what you get with privatised companies based abroad. They’ve been doing it with everything from power to trains. We subsidise other nations national power companies.
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Not surprising at all. Price caps aside, nuclear is France’s main source of power and has been for decades. It comes with a different set of challenges, but it means fluctuating prices of oil and gas (and coal) do not hit them as hard as they hit us.
At least we don’t have nationalised power companies in the UK!!!!111
**turns gammonny pink**
Headline should read French energy rise **capped** at 4% compared to 54% by Ofgem
EDF will lose around €7- €8bn because of this.
EDF also owns one-fifth of UK electricity market supply.
Because its a French company, so we’re subsidising their cheap fuel. Happy days.
Tories don’t support state owned energy…. Unless the energy company in the UK is owned by a foreign state
At least we don’t have that many nuclear reactors, “atom bad 🤓”
I was supporting nuclear energy for years and everyone was reacting like it is a stinking egg
Subsidised by the tax payer. Either way the consumer pays.
Electricité de France is owned by the French state. It has a duty to protect French citizens. It can do this by shafting the dumbfucks in the UK who voted for a woman that chose to privatise the national energy companies.
Thanks Maggie, thanks Tories.
This is the same as the trains. Europe run theirs efficiently and still make a profit. They take these profits, buy our shit and then rinse the fuck out of us.
Isn’t this because the overwhelming proportion of French energy comes from nuclear and renewables instead of gas?
Because their awful government said it could only rise by 4%! No doubt the EU was interfering in their sovereignty!
Thank god we took back control, now our government has the freedom to…..let us rot apparently
So basically…
Nationalised French EDF = has to take a profits hit
Privatised British EDF = skins the public alive to maintain profits
Perfect example of why we need some kind of windfall tax
Thanks uk government. Royally fucking us up the arse whilst wringing us out. Disgusting country.
Does anyone have a really realy ridiculously long extension lead I could borrow?
It’s because the French people wouldn’t take this shit. We do.
They don’t need to put French prices up, because we’re paying the difference!
Definitely worth privatising energy .. I hate our government
Whatever the solution the very worst action is to let the cost of this fall on the consumer. In a country like the UK that is insanity.
Conservative voters don’t actually care about the economy. That’s because most of them are shielded from the impact of a failing economy by a Conservative government who dump the failure elsewhere.
Conservative voters are probably right in feeling they would lose out if the Conservatives lost power. No more Tory Welfare.
My entire Facebook feed is people having a meltdown over their price rises. Watch suicides rocket even worse this year.
[removed]
I’m on a fixed price til Aug 22. Out of interest I checked the tariffs my current provider is currently offering.
My £148 direct debit and £2500 usage a year somehow became £520 a month and £6238 usage 🤢
That would be 30% of my monthly salary on gas/elec alone.
No one on here has any idea what they’re talking about do they?
We pay more because of the increased price cap, which only happened as otherwise every energy company in the country would go bust.
Would be nice if we didn’t have a government that fucked us over like France and let companies force millions into poverty.
Like when people moaning here but nobody has a courage to go out and protest, strike. So they milk the cow as long as they can.
Maybe it’s because EDF knooows that if it tried to pull the same bullshit in france, the french would collectively kick their arses. We have no real deterrent to stop them from taking the piss and they are pushing their luck to see how much they can get away with until the government gives them a bollucking. So pretty much expect a 100% increase by the end of the year.
And the unit rates resulting in the cap rise are calculated based on most expensive unit delivered, no average rate of unit delivered. The rise we’ve been saddled with is at least partially artificial and the result of bad policies that could be changed tomorrow.
It elections year in France. Of course the electricity won’t rise by 50%.
British energy security strategy! Sell anything and everything to do with energy to private companies who will increase profits by increasing costs to consumers whilst lowering their own costs through minimum investment in staff and structure!
Why do people keep on complaining about all the shit that keeps happening yet still keep on voting Conservative?
>Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
>
>–Albert Einstein
Of course you have some people who blame the French!!!:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1510248822299111424
So the French will just pay for higher energy costs through taxes?
We have an endless supply of coal, China builds a new coal power plant every week, but we can’t supply cheap power to ourselves?. I know environment is concern, but will it really make a difference when we’re on the brink of nuclear war ?
And if Maggie hadn’t sold the North Sea oil fields you’d be sitting on a about a trillion in sovereign wealth.
Their profit in the UK goes to cut bill in France.
This is what you get with privatised companies based abroad. They’ve been doing it with everything from power to trains. We subsidise other nations national power companies.