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E.ON are one the largest gas and electricity supplier in the UK. Formerly known as Powergen until rebranding in 2007, they offer unbeatable prices for gas, electricity or a combination of both (dual fuel).
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Latest News
16th February 2008 - British Gas slips up in 'happy hour' price rise
"British Gas has quietly raised the prices for its cheapest online tariff, Click Energy 4, which will increase bills for a medium user by around £138 a year... British Gas's move means Eon's Extra Saver 5 Standing Charge tariff is now the cheapest deal in the market - but it requires customers to manage their account online. It is around £110 a year cheaper than British Gas Click Energy 5 tariff."
Source: The Guardian, Saturday 16th of February
8th January 2008 - New Year misery for price boost
energywatch has repeated its calls for action as Npower signal a return to price hikes.
Average Npower bills will rise by £95 a year for gas, £64 for electricity and will be around £127 a year for customers who take both fuels from the company. This will push average annual bills for Npower customers back through the £1000 barrier to £1056.
Adam Scorer, Director of Campaigns at energywatch said:
"If this is the shape of things to come over the next few months, we are going to see hundreds of thousands of consumers wonder how they can afford to keep their homes warm."
"Npower has shown its colours with enormous price increases. energywatch calls on other suppliers to respond to current high wholesale prices by competing over the long term with good value products, and not to simply load the risk of wholesale prices on their own customers.
"That Npower is able to go to their customers with such enormous rises suggests something is very badly wrong not only in the GB energy market but in Europe as well.
"There is no actual shortage of gas across Europe, we have new pipelines to bring that gas to the UK, greater storage capacity than before and terminals to bring in super tankers full of liquefied natural gas.
"But, without any significant event or period of cold weather the wholesale gas price has been extremely volatile. Why? Because the major European energy giants gas producers are able to raid the UK for gas when it's cheap and levy punitive prices when demand is higher.
"To add insult to injury, when faced with higher wholesale costs, suppliers such as Npower are content to pass those prices through to the consumer and take a minimal hit themselves.
"Consumers won't care whether they are being failed by one energy market or two. The consequences are the same: household budgets stretched, many thousands more families added to the four million already in fuel poverty and a harsher consumer outlook for 2008.
"Consumers need energy authorities and Government to act to ensure that competition works for consumers, - not gas producers, and that the most vulnerable consumers are given adequate protection."
- The European Commission must force transparency and fair competition into European energy markets
- Ofgem should refer the energy market to the Competition Commission to assess any structural failings
- Government must use the forthcoming Energy Bill to ensure that all suppliers provide meaningful social tariffs that adhere to common standards ends
Source: cheap-gas-and-electricity-bills.com
December 4th 2007 - Powergen are now E.ON
Energy giant Powergen assumed the name of its German parent company E.ON at the beginning of December 2007, and now operates under the name E.ON UK
Powergen, which resulted from the privatisation of the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) in 1990, was bought by E.ON in January 2002 and has been operating in the UK under its stewardship ever since.
E.ON said the name change reflected more than just the change in ownership, but also 'a change in the company's attitude towards energy and its generation'.
One example of this change is E.ON's commitment to renewable energy. E.ON is currently developing one of the world's largest offshore wind farms in the Solway Firth in Scotland, and the world's largest dedicated biomass power stations at Lockerbie, Scotland.
E.ON also operates the Rheidol Power Station - the largest hydro electric power scheme in England and Wales - which, combined with its wind energy operations, makes E.ON one of the UK's leading green energy producers.
In addition to its environmentally responsible energy solutions, E.ON is also committed to producing 'secure' energy and operates numerous coal, oil and gas fired power stations throughout the UK.
Headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany, E.ON is one of Europe's major public utility companies, and is the world's largest investor-owned gas and electricity company.
In the UK, E.ON is one of the leading energy suppliers, the second largest electricity generator and owns the second largest distribution network.
Source: npower
Climate Change's $75 Billion Bill
LONDON -Natural disasters wrought by climate change have a staggering price tag, and it's growing.
Total economic losses from natural catastrophes in 2007 rose to $75 billion from $50 billion the year before as extreme weather conditions driven by climate change wreaked havoc across the world, according to Munich Re (other-otc: MURGF - news - people ), the world's second-largest reinsurer on Thursday. The economic losses include those not covered by insurance such as disruption to power supplies or transportation links.
Despite the absence of so-called mega-catastrophes, such as the tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed more than 200,000 people in 2004, the year was punctuated by a large number of smaller disasters, said the company in its annual natural catastrophe review. It defines a disaster as an event that results in more than 10 deaths or causes millions of dollars of losses.
Losses to the insurance industry doubled, to $30 billion, during the year, as the number of individual disasters rose to 950, the highest figure since 1974, when Munich Re began its survey.
"The trend in respect of weather extremes shows that climate change is already taking effect and that more such extremes are to be expected in the future," said Torsten Jeworrek, a member of the reinsurer's board.
The greatest losses to the insurance industry were sustained in Europe, which was hit by an unusually large number of extreme weather conditions throughout the year. In mid-January during the so-called Kyrill storm, winds of more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) an hour swept across the Continent, causing economic losses of $10 billion and insurance losses of $5.8 billion. Flooding in Britain during the wettest July on record caused $4 billion of damage, $3 billion of which was paid for by insurers.
Losses in the United States were lower than many have been expected, with wildfires in October causing insured losses of $1.9 billion and August's Hurricane Dean taking a $1 billion toll.
Michael Able, a spokesman for Munich Re said that while there were no exact numbers on how large the losses would be, they were likely to "strongly increase" in the future.
"What we see is the trend line for the number of catastrophes going up, while at the same time througout the world there are lots of people living in places where from a risk point of view they should't be living,"
he said.
Munich Re said that while it was ready to deal with the higher number of natural catastrophes it would come at "a cost to society as a whole" as insurance companies were forced to raise their premiums and the costs of repairing infrastructure made their way onto tax bills.
Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source: forbes