Bord Gáis price increase

smash

Don't know if there's a thread already but last night on the radio I heard they've put forward a proposal to the energy regulator for a 28% price increase. The regulator replied by saying they'll grant them a 22% increase. That's a serious kick in the teeth for customers!

And I was wondering why I got a phone call 2 days ago asking if I wanted to move to a fixed payment plan.

biko

Bord Gáis is a state owned enterprise so probably is supposed to help get money for the banks.

fedor.2.

Ah they're gas arent they

mikom

Is this thread a repeat.....

biko

mikom, you can provide me with the last one and I'll merge.

allanb49

switched over to airtricity last month when this was announced an extra €300 or so a year on electricity

orourkeda

once bord gash dont start increasing their prices

mikom

biko wrote: »

mikom, you can provide me with the last one and I'll merge.

It was a "gas" "repeat" quip biko.
No merge needed.

syklops

allanb49 wrote: »

switched over to airtricity last month when this was announced an extra €300 or so a year on electricity

I dont understand why more people dont move. Same way I dont understand why more people didn't move to Halifax when it was here. They opened on a Saturday!

Biggins

smash wrote: »

Don't know if there's a thread already but last night on the radio I heard they've put forward a proposal to the energy regulator for a 28% price increase. The regulator replied by saying they'll grant them a 22% increase. That's a serious kick in the teeth for customers!

And I was wondering why I got a phone call 2 days ago asking if I wanted to move to a fixed payment plan.

Don't forget that on top of that increase, a government set percentage of it then will be increased as regards VAT also too for the final total monthly/bi-monthly bill.

So the customer is hit twice!

DaveDaRave

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Mike 1972

biko wrote: »

Bord Gáis is a state owned enterprise so probably is supposed to help get money for the banks.

Anyone else think its a bit odd having two state owned companies competing against each other

7sr2z3fely84g5

All prices are going up im afraid,just when the gov needs to tax people to death,i have a feeling people are going to snap someday,enough is enough


*well no,people rather ring in radio station and tell other people they should take to the streets..

the groutch

(reading smugly with my electric storage heating)

Biggins

the groutch wrote: »

(reading smugly with my electric storage heating)

Some 110,000 Bord Gais customers are in arrears, while 150,000 ESB customers are behind on their payments.
Mr Moynihan said the other three gas suppliers in the market -- ESB, Airtricity, Flogas -- would hike prices by October.

http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/surviving-the-recession/triple-whammy-of-health-and-energy-hikes-to-hit-households-2834768.html

UTILITY companies ESB and Airtricity are set to follow Bord Gais in hiking their charges, energy experts warned.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/esb-and-airtricity-to-follow-bord-gaiss-latest-price-hike-2821180.html

HOUSEHOLDERS can expect to see an extra €15 on their annual electricity bills from October 1 next after the Commission for Energy Regulation approved a €2.3bn investment programme in the transmission system.

ESB Networks will spend the money upgrading power lines, and the cost is levied on suppliers who generally pass it onto consumers.
The CER said it would result in average price increases of 1.5pc on electricity bills.
This equates to about €15 per year.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/upgrade-will-add-to-bills-2823235.html

7sr2z3fely84g5

Father Purcell: We run the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas and we save two hundred pounds a year

the groutch

Biggins wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/surviving-the-recession/triple-whammy-of-health-and-energy-hikes-to-hit-households-2834768.html


http://www.independent.ie/national-news/esb-and-airtricity-to-follow-bord-gaiss-latest-price-hike-2821180.html

I read that as a gas price increase by the others, not necessarily a leccy increase

Biggins

the groutch wrote: »

I read that as a gas price increase by the others, not necessarily a leccy increase

See third link.

Freddie59

The CER is, as always, a toothless quango. "They looked for 28% - we told them they could only have 22%". FFS.:rolleyes: Could't they have told them to fcuk off and take 4 or 5%? When is all this going to end - if ever? There is only so many times the Government and the Utilities can go back to this well before it runs dry. Do they actually have any clue - at all?

And all this while the Seanad (was supposed to be abolished) still sits, Fas gets a new suit, Politicians, Judges, consultants are disgustingly overpaid, and the HSE squanders even more billions.

Something has to give. It is financially inevitable.

ilovesleep

Freddie59 wrote: »

The CER is, as always, a toothless quango. "They looked for 28% - we told them they could only have 22%". FFS.:rolleyes: Could't they have told them to fcuk off and take 4 or 5%? When is all this going to end - if ever? There is only so many times the Government and the Utilities can go back to this well before it runs dry. Do they actually have any clue - at all?

And all this while the Seanad (was supposed to be abolished) still sits, Fas gets a new suit, Politicians, Judges, consultants are disgustingly overpaid, and the HSE squanders even more billions.

Something has to give. It is financially inevitable.

The only thing that can help us now is a 9/11 into some of these headquarter buildings and into the ECB. Especially the ECB. Hopefully greece will rise to do it.

Capt'n Midnight

Has the world price of gas increased by any chance ?

just in case there was another reason for the price rise.