It would be a fair assumption that the majority of commercial end users of electricity think that the cost of electricity to be pretty much the same throughout the UK, whether they are based in Aberdeen, Kings Lynn or Weston Super-Mare. The reality is somewhat different with variation around the country based on a number of factors. Thus many clients express some consternation about similar consuming sites within a group having, sometimes very different pricing. Electricity prices can differ around the nation and can vary significantly from region to region. To name a few these factors contributing to this: continue
What are the barriers to energy market liquidity? You don’t know and you don’t care? Well, maybe it’s worth a little of your attention because as business energy users, it affects you and the future of your energy supply and billing in the UK.
Economists probably have a more technical term, be it ‘closed market’ or similar but we consider the energy market to be a disfunctional one – and one that is in need of the energy brokers such as Torse, making sense of it. continue
Mark Johnson, a director of Torse Ltd, is interviewed by Maria Loreto Urbina regarding the current energy market in the UK with regards to pricing fluctuation, long term contracts and advice for existing and new clients wishing to renew their energy contracts
Here is a brief summary of issues discussed
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What is E.on up to at the moment in the SME commercial energy market? Is there something sinister about E.on’s current behaviour? What’s it all about?
Over recent months E.on’s SME division have been sending out documentation to Brokers, Consultancies and sales agencies for signature relating to a ‘Code of Practice’ and a new ‘updated E.on contract’. Despite the increased efforts of Ofgem and the government to improve market liquidity [Big 6 forced to sell 25% of generation on wholesale market], some energy companies are still making efforts to erode the independent status of third parties; is this to be considered anti-competitive behaviour?