On Feb 10, 12:54*pm, The Other Mike
wrote:
The whole market is a mess. Caused by the free market.

Sadly the only free market is nature.
Every other market has a Market Maker and the poor policies resulted
in gas being the cheapest choice. ONLY Billing, Meter Reading, MV & LV
Cable, Non Nuclear Maintenance etc should have been privatised.

I recall writing a pre O-level study into energy production, stating
that coal was the logical choice re self-sufficiency on top of nuclear
handling baseband. It received a distinction. It is as relevant and
correct today as it was then, it blew a hole through thatchers energy
policy.


1) Massively improving energy efficiency of UK housing stock

Which is going to lead to "install new windows and you have to achieve
X Y Z other improvements".

Home ownership is going to look like a bigger debt that people ever
imagined, all because of imbecile property builders for decades who
opposed insulation as something that reduced their profit margins. The
week after the first sheets of polystyrene rolled off the production
line decades ago, they should have been coated with cement & glass
mesh to bond them to walls of houses.


People will eventually say no more and we will have hundreds of
thousands bypassing meters.

I can see a 100% rise in energy prices within 4-5yrs, and a savage
backlash.

Privatising energy planning & generation was insane, it is not just
economically strategic, it is absolutely **fundamental** to a
countries ability to operate. It will end up as a complete failure of
requirement specification and regulation, just like the FSA.