Are Any of the Energy Companies Still Fully UK Owned?

phototest

Our gas and electricity supplies "Good Energy" is as far as I know fully British and sources 100% renewable energy!

macman

phototest wrote: »

Our gas and electricity supplies "Good Energy" is as far as I know fully British and sources 100% renewable energy!

Have a read here:
http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/news/hgiye.html

meggsy

Also have a look at Cooperative Energy, they have £50 off first bill for sign ups before 9th December.

I switched in July, they have one tariff and no exit fees.

bengasman

Who cares who own the shares? No big company is fully owned by people of one nationality any way.
You would do yourself a favour by letting go of this medieval way of thinking, and just look at who offers the best value for money.

MillicentBystander

magyar wrote: »

The reality is that all the big 6 are international energy companies. It just so happens SSE and Centrica have their headquarters in the UK. Both of them are in practice owned by their shareholders (who are not necessarily British), but both have substantial operations abroad.

RWE, E.ON and Iberdrola are all owned by shareholders and happen to have headquarters in Germany or Madrid.

The only exception is really EDF which is 80% owned by the French government which exerts significant levels of control over it.

They clearly haven't told them to ANSWER THE &^&%$(* PHONE then.

magyar

MillicentBystander wrote: »

They clearly haven't told them to ANSWER THE &^&%$(* PHONE then.

*Gallic shrug*

lexa34

ECOTRICITY DO A TARIFF THAT MATCHES TRADITION REGIONAL SUPPLIER OF THE AREA AND ARE 98% GREEN AND GOOD ENERGY ARE 100% BUT COST A TINY BIT MORE. bOTH GOOD COMPANIES.

Whoops... caps... !

magyar

lexa34 wrote: »

ECOTRICITY DO A TARIFF THAT MATCHES TRADITION REGIONAL SUPPLIER OF THE AREA AND ARE 98% GREEN AND GOOD ENERGY ARE 100% BUT COST A TINY BIT MORE. bOTH GOOD COMPANIES.

Whoops... caps... !

Ecotricity are not 98% green
http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/our-green-energy/energy-independence/our-fuel-mix

Mugget

SSE are the only BRITISH supplier out of the big 6 and the uk's largest provider or renewable energy.

macman

SSE's 'green' credentials come about only because they happened to inherit a lot of Scotish hydro-electric capacity. They're not particularly active in creating any new renewable sources.
And what makes BG non-British? Centrica may have US interests, but it's still UK-based.