Electricity and gas: You choose!

[vlfour]

I welcome the competition and I'm certainly glad to see deregulation take place in so many states. I signed up for great rates usuing a company called TransCo Power that lets you finds rates online and lock in a contract. Works for me!

tp.emexpower (dot) com

[sgrave1]

yeah consumer must inform themself, we deal with the devil, technicaly if you don't know something it's not an excuse of the consequence we face, it's the result of the lack of knowledge

Les consommateurs doivent s'informer, nous traitons avec le diable, techniquement si on ne connait pas quelques chose ce n'est pas une excuse face à la conséquence, c'est le résultat de manque de savoir

[md22mint]

They tried this in Texas and before liberalization of the energy system one KWH was 5 - 10 cents and now its about 16 - 20cents per KWH.

[donex96]

Im from Indonesia, a small country in south east Asia. In my opinion its ridiculous to make liberalization in energy market. What will happen next?? The suppliers can dictcate the price. And now, all developed countries, with IMF as a motor, has forced privatisation in our state owned electricity company. This scheme is already succed in our telecommunication company. If the reason is the price, why dont the government make policies to regulate the price.

[pe7r0vsky]

good point of view. In Canada, for example, the electricity is controlled, produced and regulated by one state-controlled company, and that way, electricity in canada is relatively cheap.

[raphamar80]

Tesla ruled !!

[timmo2k]

correction. It is known EXACTLY what electricity is, you just dont understand it. I will try and explain; electricity is the flow of positively charged (in terms of photons) electrons from a positive "object" , to a negatively charged(in terms of photons) object". The positively charged object or area is known as the annode, and the negatively charged object or area is known as the cathode.

[andygavin]

"The only way to get lower prices is to encourage competition" Nonsense, what about regulation? Simply opening a market does not necessarily drive down prices. Providers move as a group, like with recent prices. Market prices are also effected by speculative investment too. Markets don't prevent price fixing and need to be regulated. It is unclear to me whether good regulation of few operators is preferable.

[haardkaar]

This isn't something EU should care about. It's up to citizens in each country to decide. EU is not democratic by forcing this on us to comply to this. This viedo clip is nothing more than propaganda. The reality is completely different. We got the right to choose who's going to rip us off. We didn't get the right to choose a reliable and cheap electricity market.

[atotzisbezet]

i'm dutch and can tell you that it aint getting cheaper... its the other way around... its so fucking expensive nowadays people cant pay their gas bills anymore.

[AliasUndercover]

Oh yes, let the market set the price like it did in California. I'm sure $10,000 a kilowatt hour isn't too expensive for you guys.

[cultintal]

I don't think a liberalised market would make energy cheaper in the long run. As EU countries have enough stability to hold prices at a fixed rate: for them loosing money on energy should not be a problem, in opposition to a company which actual purpose is to make money. With this kind of market, a simple crisis can make the prices climb pretty high.

These may be my socialist feeling awakening, but I believe the state is here to give lasting cheap commodities. A company is here to make money.

[AG0525]

At the end, all this liberasation means that goverments will force energy distributors to allow one more distributor ... so you electrisity bill could look like: Nuclear fac/windmill + main high voltage distributor + smaller distributor + another distributor + local distributor + street distributor + your neighbour. Wow ... no wonder the electristy prices wil skyrocket, even having in mind that production cost will not be so high. The video shows only one side and doesnt go deeper enough.

[AG0525]

Well i am from Lithuania, considered dumb, so explain me how energy "liberasation" works.

As video showed, we have: produsers, distributors and ... and consumers.

So, i dont get it. At the end, we have distributors, wich decides the price for end user. And how can we have MORE distributors ("competition") if there is ONLY ONE cabel and GAS PIPE going to your house. ONE! There is only ONE high voltage cable grid. ONE!

[wutru]

lol @ socialism

[workstationnumlock]

Two observations:

1) I haven't seen one positive comment about the liberalisation. I think most people posting are Continental Europeans, but still...

2) The video talks about "Britain, where there has been liberalisation for several years now". Yes, that would be since Thatcher privatised the industry in *1989*, *before the European Union even existed*.

[rmir2]

Where is NORDSTREAM in this presentation? The real purpose is to make us dependent of russian energy supplies - just like drug addicts. It is good old Stalinist policy in a new packet. But we DONT WANT IT

[allgoodnickstaken]

so what is the difference for me as a customer? what are the different gases and powers are you offering me?

[jobvdsande]

so, lets hope that now finally france will allow competition on their market. they take over smaller suppliers in openmarket countries, but when its their turn to have a company go to foreign hands, suddenly they stalk about 'national security'. A liberal market is cool, as long as everyone abides the rules.

[ctel2009]

Yes if people abide by a fair set of rules.

Like a good sporting game people can win.

That is why I am involved in an Energy company.

You can click on my name and see the sites.

If you now anyone in NYC or Texas it is in thier intrest to get the right information.

Will we be in Europe? We will see. Events in USA will mimic the markets in the EU.

[lsamartins]

Believe me, it's way better if you leave it for the free market to manage. You can have high prices, no reliability and even lack of supply if you leave it for the state beaurocrats. Just take a look at the energy field in the Latin American countries.

[ctel2009]

I agree that is why I am in the energy business in America with a unique idea that

is open to all. A truly grass root effort

and we are just getting started.

[assasin22red]

de grens tussen nederland en duitsland is verkeerd getekend.

limburg is namelijk van nederland

[LavishBeats]

Limburg was traditionally part of the Southern Netherlands, present-day Belgium... En de grens tussen België en Nederland is ook verkeerd getekend, Zeeuw-Vlaanderen behoort tot Vlaanderen, net zoals Noord-Brabant en Limburg. Die waren allemaal onderdeel van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden, ie. België.

[JMP98251]

so where are you from? Limburg joined the treaty of Utrecht (in the form of Maastricht and surrounding land at that time) so did zeeuws Vlaanderen and Brabant. those where freed from the spansih after the 80 years war while the current belgium was still under spanish rule. so they are most certainly part of The Netherlands and not Belgium.

[GunsGotti]

it has allready affected prices in The Netherlands and Belgium :(

[justinaurelius]

This video is SHOCKING.

Get it? electricity?  Shocking?

[DarthTanner]

I think you just breached a few EU regulations with that

[DarthTanner]

So not only have power bills gone up but nuclear power plants are now run by private corporations, hmmm I wonder how thier safety spending has gone...

[lutherbrowning]

Do not fall for this. We did it in the U.S.A. and prices have skyrocketed, and reliability has fallen. Energy is so important to the country is should be a state run monopoly. Free market has too many ups and downs that can disrupt every facet of the country.

[Mycarrox]

Absolutely right, in Holland hospitals were made non state funded commercial enterprises some 15 years ago or so and things are not improving. some hospitals have simply had to close down completely because they were bankrupt, most others are in huge debts.

The railways is a simmilar story, it became non state funded, now there are often delays, accidents. They even sold most of their modern trains to Germany and bought older ones from Belgium to try and earn some money.

[phatjesus008]

i live in belgium and electricity prices have gone up since the opening of the market. it sucks.

[sicocosi]

bravo to the european commission to use a 21 th century way to communicate with EU citizens...

[coodgle]

La commission européenne ne sait plus comment faire pour vanter les mérites de l'ouverture des marchés, ouverture qui, jusqu'à présent, n'a conduit qu'à augmenter le prix de l'énergie et engraisser les actionnaires et diminuer la sécurité d'approvisionnement...

[looskuh]

I absolutely like the fact that I have a free choice now. It's just that it becomes quite a hassle to choose. There are a lot of options, different packages, different deals. I'm quite willing to spend some time figuring this out, but I wonder if everyone is.

[623058]

we had this in UK for years and still the bloody prices are too high!

[3swoosh2]

let me guess what it means. less jobs, lower wages, higher prices, crappier service, higher profits for the stock corporation share holders. haven't seen that happen before...

[korencek]

I wonder how will this work, when a company will be able to provide only 1MW of electricity, and if its costumers consumed over 100MW...

[thereallurker]

Damn Bush and Cheney for letting us fall behind and allowing us to be dependent on oil. If only we could have decentralized our power grid and put innovation into our markets again.

[avlona]

How things can be made complicated by a free market. It is an odd and costly principle. Now the suppliers have to be inspected and the inspectors will be inspected, or not? avlona

[santiagowechsler]

this thing just smells of lies

[Nico5ab]

Est-ce qu'on pourrait arrêter de raconter que la libéralisation va faire diminuer les prix ? C'est démagogique et faux.

Les services publics permettent d'éviter les coûts de partage des bénéfices aux actionnaires, et peuvent fournir l'énergie à prix coûtant. De plus, le monopole d'Etat permet une mutualisation des coûts.

[mike82tr]

pourqoi tu ecris en français?

[anselme83]

Pas mal ces petites videos, mais combien de citoyen de l'UE comprennent l'anglais? Vas falloir traduire dans toutes les langues de l'UE :/

[Metalmanz3]

seems like a good idea

[rspawn]

What good is choice if the choices are expensive?

[glennid10t]

here in portland oregon USA we don't have a choice of providers. we all must pay 21 percent more for electricity since December 2006.

I hope you fellow humans in europe find the answer to stopping the big greedy energy companies from exploiting the consumers.

[brgroom]

texas has competition for electricity now (not in all areas) and the deregulated areas pay much more than the still regulated areas. this deregulation sucks imo. it helps big businesses and screws little people (single family homes).  this is just my opinion.

[simplyno]

I assume there are no comments here because you don't allow them to be posted. I would have thought that the EU would support free speech. I guess not.

[vlunkk]

Too bad you forgot to mention the FACT that mostly American multinational oil-companies bought up over 200 refinaries to dismantle them to be able to raise the price of oil, not because of the fake "Peak-Oil" fairy, but caused by the planned lack of refineries.

Grow up.

[vlunkk]

ask the US government and especially J.P. Morgan why they made Tesla die in poverty although he gave us DC?

Coiuld it have been because he proved energy to be free exploitable for all citizens?

*curses the stupid sceptic imbeciles*

[Fixhist]

I was reading about the involvement of medics in London and Glasgow terror plots.

Medics working for Alqaida is very sensitive information to come in media, especially if Alqaidas number 2 is a pediatrician.

taking the fact in consideration if, the nails were long enough to cause power outages. All exposed power cables are very vulnerable to one blow of nail to pearce through it.

As Bush says it is a long drawn war against barbaric mujahideen, these are faceless enemies of democracy.

[tylersall2]

mhmmm, interesting, people dont even notice that the power companies have a monopoly going, and also i think its funny that the EU has a channel

[MaBoeFAN167]

Why no comments?.. Well.. I guess I'm the first one than 8-).. Happy new year every one :D :D

[jphwacheski]

what a bunch of bunk! privatizing public utilities is a straight up grab at control and private profits over environmental concerns and people,. they privatized the water system in south america,. and the corporations claimed the right to tax poor people collecting rain water!!! the private corporations claimed to own the rain! this privatization will make off-grid solutiuons illegal you juat wait and see,.

[colomboBE]

Practial was it means in Belgium that prices of Electricity and Gas GO UP !!!!

The liberalization is for the BIG pockets of the BIG engery suppliers.

DO NOT BELIEVE THIS BULSHITT !!!!

They say it is liberalization, so they can lie and

say that it is now cheaper for the customers,

but it is now MORE expentive than before the liberalization.

And what about the wars that these company orchestrate to keep the OIL-Prices UP and UP and UP.

THEY ARE CRIMINALS !!!!!!!!!!

[maarten087]

thanks to the liberasation of the energy market in Flanders (Belgium), bills really got cheaper! and the service is much better now

[Eaacker]

Maybe if we had a more transparent system, similar to the one presented, we wouldn't have disasters like the Enron Corporation or the California deregulation crisis.

[petemill66]

Before you do this, please study the USA State of Maryland. They did this and prices sharply increased.

[irishftbll6]

sweet...choices kick ass

[bulgariamitko]

Well can we choose that in Bulgaria i dont know !? :(

[esegeta]

they should put subtitles in european commission videos.

[maunaowakea777]

so fucking dumb why is this listed as popular, deregulation happened here in the states and, guess what? it was a great way for the electric utilities to jam up the prices of their products and push off their expenses onto the public. Fucking corporations.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Let's talk reality here - after the liberalization, did British households pay significantly more or less for their electricity - and what will happen in the future?

It's a shame that the Commission has decided to feed us such a propagandistic piece instead of paying the good people at Mostra (using our money) to do a more balanced video.

[pattom136]

I wouldn't worry about choosing electricity and gas suppliers, i would be more worried about where the gas and power is coming from. For instance germany relies on Russia for like 47% of its power (not a nice position to be in) we need to rely on nuclear more so now. Look at what happened to the Ukraine.

[CreditTipVideos]

I choose both

[slinkys]

I wish to understand this:

Prior to choice exercise, let's say 1 company monopolies the power generating and distribution. To get the electricity to your home, 1 substation and cable is only required.

However, with other suppliers being introduced, doesn't it require to build more independent cables, power grids, gas pipes just to satisfy a region of customers? Economically viable? I am pretty skeptic of this.

[mrbonheur]

EU-Propaganda everywhere, even Youtube is now invaded.

[13374L]

Welcome to U.S.A

[alanheath]

Good idea - I hope it will work everywhere!

[TheShrimpShackShoote]

Cool, just plug in healthcare instead of electricity and you have the perfect private healthcare system!

[MrHairyNutz]

Im not surprised the E.U. didnt make its own youtube to try & compete with american youtube.

[intosportz]

Awesome!

[euroentusiasta]

The prices have been stable because there were national monopolies, controled by states, now prices will rise badly.. I would support a single european company, controled by EU, but not this!

[mo1elftausend]

Oh nice. I didnt knew the Euopean Commision was doing videos on youtube. Good job. keep going.

[djangobelgo]

Well, we choose nothing. In Belgium, Electrabel - the monopoly - just raised gas prices with 20%. Belgians are enraged, but to no avail.

If you can, dear EU, please break this quasi-monopoly.

[1capsule45]

Im up for communsm in europe who else

[CreditTipVideos]

this video is great

[WhiteHousedotGov]

European gas and electricity....exciting video.

Click on my name, to see my flagged anti-Bush video.

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