Subsidizing French EDF customers.

patman99

I'm not an EDF customer, but those of you who are, are subsidizing their French customers to the tune of £15 for every £100 of you bill.

EDF are of course, owned by the French Govt. and they use a big chunk of profits from their foreign customers to off-set French energy bills.

Your average Fenchman pays just £30 p/m for their electric regardless of how much they use.

Just think, had that idiot Maggot Thatcher not privatised our utilities in the 1980's, but instead looked to improve the way they ran and looked to invest in new areas abroad, we could have been the ones with fixed-price power.

hcb42

this is not serious, right?

Rolandtheroadie

EDF have been cheapest for me for 2 years now whether I'm subsidising the French or not.

It's the first company I've went with where the DD is actually accurate to my useage and not designed to leave me owing them money.

Vive le France.

knightstyle

Here are their prices in France for a normal day/night tariff:
Puissance souscrite (kVA) R!glage disjoncteur (A) Abonnement annuel Heures Pleines Heures Creuses
6 30 93,66 0,1293 0,0875
9 45 112,39 0,1293 0,0875
12 60 190,39 0,1293 0,0875
15 75 224,03 0,1293 0,0875
18 90 255,52 0,1293 0,0875

The Abonnement annuel is the standing charge so with a normal UK supply of 100Amps the nearest in France is 90Amps and you pay 255.52€ even if you don't use any electricity!
This is why most of us over here in France have much smaller supplies.

AAARRRGGGHHH The posting doesn't like my copying a table but you can work it out, the top line is the table heading.

pinkshoes

Bravo to the French for having a government that caps consumer energy prices so that their population aren't left with HUGE energy bills from the HUGE rises we've seen over the last 10 years.

It's a shame our last government didn't follow France's lead and do the same!

Privatisation isn't necessarily a bad thing - it just needs to be regulated.

moonrakerz

patman99 wrote: »

Your average Fenchman pays just £30 p/m for their electric regardless of how much they use.

What complete, utter, unmitigated, ill-researched rubbish !!!!

http://www.e-control.at/portal/page/portal/medienbibliothek/presse/dokumente/pdfs/HEPI_Juni_englisch_Final.pdf

I heard a similar load of garbage about prices in Germany with Eon. I asked a work colleague in Germany about it - his Electricity was over 30% higher than mine.

bap98189

What do you think happens to the profits made by all the other electricity companies?

VT82

EDF isn't a pro-French charity, it's a global business whose interest is in shareholder wealth maximisation. If they could make more profit by putting up the price in France, they would, regardless of whether or not they make 'enough' money in the UK.

PeteMc

I had electricity only (no gas) in my house in France and the average yearly bill was €4000, so your comment is absolute nonsense.