why no cuts on Elec?

NittyGritty

while its good news that 3 of the big 6 have cut gas prices, why haven't there been any cuts to Electric?

Southend1

I guess because most electricity is generated by coal & nuclear and this is not affected by the price of oil

lstar337

No cuts maybe, but they are offering new lower priced products.
All you have to do is switch.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Coal, gas and nuclear each generated about 30% of total UK electricity supply in April 2014.



Generation Mix: In April, GB electricity came from:

Coal: 30%
Gas power stations: 29%
Nuclear: 22%
Wind: 5%
Hydro: 1%
Interconnectors: 7% net – with 6% from France and 2% from Holland
Others (including Oil, Pumped): 4%

However, the ’22%’ generation figure for UK baseload nuclear does not include the ’6%’ contribution imported into the UK via the French interconnector – almost all of which will be nuclear-generated by EDF. So the more accurate picture is that coal, gas and nuclear each generated about 30% of total UK electricity supply in April 2014.

saveallmymoney

New tariffs seem to have a small reduction in electricity prices to go with the larger gas cuts.