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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bravo to the ... ( 1 year ago by sicocosi)

bravo to the european commission to use a 21 th century way to communicate with EU citizens...

i live in belgium ... ( 1 year ago by phatjesus008)

i live in belgium and electricity prices have gone up since the opening of the market. it sucks.

Do not fall for ... ( 1 year ago by lutherbrowning)

Do not fall for this. We did it in the U.S.A. and prices have skyrocketed, and reliability has fallen. Energy is so important to the country is should be a state run monopoly. Free market has too many ups and downs that can disrupt every facet of the country.

So not only have ... ( 1 year ago by DarthTanner)

So not only have power bills gone up but nuclear power plants are now run by private corporations, hmmm I wonder how thier safety spending has gone...

This video is ... ( 1 year ago by justinaurelius)

This video is SHOCKING.
Get it? electricity? Shocking?

I think you just ... ( 1 year ago by DarthTanner)

I think you just breached a few EU regulations with that

it has allready ... ( 1 year ago by GunsGotti)

it has allready affected prices in The Netherlands and Belgium :(

Absolutely right, ... ( 1 year ago by Mycarrox)

Absolutely right, in Holland hospitals were made non state funded commercial enterprises some 15 years ago or so and things are not improving. some hospitals have simply had to close down completely because they were bankrupt, most others are in huge debts.
The railways is a simmilar story, it became non state funded, now there are often delays, accidents. They even sold most of their modern trains to Germany and bought older ones from Belgium to try and earn some money.

de grens tussen ... ( 1 year ago by assasin22red)

de grens tussen nederland en duitsland is verkeerd getekend.
limburg is namelijk van nederland

Believe me, it's ... ( 1 year ago by lsamartins)

Believe me, it's way better if you leave it for the free market to manage. You can have high prices, no reliability and even lack of supply if you leave it for the state beaurocrats. Just take a look at the energy field in the Latin American countries.

so, lets hope that ... ( 1 year ago by jobvdsande)

so, lets hope that now finally france will allow competition on their market. they take over smaller suppliers in openmarket countries, but when its their turn to have a company go to foreign hands, suddenly they stalk about 'national security'. A liberal market is cool, as long as everyone abides the rules.

Limburg was ... ( 1 year ago by LavishBeats)

Limburg was traditionally part of the Southern Netherlands, present-day Belgium... En de grens tussen Belgi
ë en Nederland is ook verkeerd getekend, Zeeuw-Vlaanderen behoort tot Vlaanderen, net zoals Noord-Brabant en Limburg. Die waren allemaal onderdeel van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden, ie. België.

Er is helemaal ... ( 1 year ago by LompeKhylos)

Er is helemaal verkeerd getekend ja, als je zo begint kunnen we net zo goed even heel vlaanderen bij Nederland aantrekken. Het zou dan en hoop schelen rond de taal strijd enzovoort.

so what is the ... ( 1 year ago by allgoodnickstaken)

so what is the difference for me as a customer? what are the different gases and powers are you offering me?

so where are you ... ( 1 year ago by JMP98251)

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.

I agree that is why ... ( 10 months ago by ctel2009)

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.

Yes if people abide ... ( 10 months ago by ctel2009)

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.

Where is NORDSTREAM ... ( 7 months ago by rmir2)

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

Two observations: ... ( 5 months ago by workstationnumlock)

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*.

lol @ socialism ( 3 months ago by wutru)

lol @ socialism

At the end, all ... ( 2 months ago by AG0525)

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.

I don't think a ... ( 2 months ago by cultintal)

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.

Oh yes, let the ... ( 1 month ago by AliasUndercover)

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.

This isn't ... ( 4 weeks ago by haardkaar)

This isn't something EU should care about. It's up to citizens in each country to decide. EU is not democratic by forcing this on us to comply to this. This viedo clip is nothing more than propaganda. The reality is completely different. We got the right to choose who's going to rip us off. We didn't get the right to choose a reliable and cheap electricity market.

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