Pantglas2
But it isn’t the only answer DaisyAnne, is it? No guarantee that the state owned would be supplying at the cheapest rate!
The answer is always to shop around and we’re not the only country in Europe to have choice either...in Spain I chop and change regularly.
Good luck with that Plantglas.
I may have been a little misleading in my last post. The Energy Supplier market is an Oligopoly. Not surprising as our right-wing governments in the UK seem to have been moving towards an Oligarch run country over the last 40 years.
By definition, Oligopoly markets are controlled by a small number of suppliers. Some are competitive; others are significantly less so. I believe the energy market would come into that second category. Concerns there may be coordinated actions or lack of vigorous competition are often rife with this set-up. Oligopoly is not a good "choice", Plantglas. If it is a choice at all.
In the UK only two of the "Big Six" energy suppliers are British owned. That is not a safe choice. Things will change. This government constructed market, an oxymoron if there ever was one, is dying on the vine.
If change is to come, and no one doubts it is, how do you see it happening? I'll add another choice to "state-run". We see many resourceful communities setting up as both local generators and suppliers. Now that is something I would be happy to see the government help to come about.