Ordinary households charged a % for big businesses electricity, for 12 years!!

Here’s €50 for everyone in the audience. So you could have been charged since the start and me a new build a few weeks ago and we get the same. Crazy

What happens if you’ve lived in different addresses over this time?

Or you no longer are a bill payer but you were then?

The stuff us plebs don’t know about in this country must be massive.

Corrupt with zero accountability.

Somewhat confused, apparently 12 years of this overcharging will be compensated by a €50 note, but CRU estimates reversing it will save us on average €40pa. What gives?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41061026.html

"ESB Networks anticipates that it will result in the reduction of a domestic electricity bill in the order of €50 in total"

I kinda don't give a fuck what the ESB "anticipates". This should be properly looked into by an independent body. Just how this can happen in the first place, why it went on for so long and what the exact amount of rip off we're talking about here.

You're right to be pissed off. South Carolinians had their own Nukegate scandal you can google up in your own time, but what my life experience has shown me is that energy suppliers have the ratepayer over a barrel usually, both figuratively, literally - and politically. The only thing that stands a chance is proper grassroots organization in response to these outrageous occurrences (as here)

50 EUR is more than 6.24 EUR

(12 yrs, 52 wks/yr, 1 cent/wk)

(It's ~8 cent a week)

That's almost 52 cents a week! ;)

Was it Ryan who signed off on it?

Loading costs onto consumers, win win for him.

That would be the Nursing Homes scandal.

This is "Oh, Look over there" - another scandal, certainly, but by faceless bureaucrats in a semi-state company rather than highly identifiable TDs and Ministers in the Dáil.

I remember during the 90's someone discovered that we were still paying a tax on soft drinks that had been added during the Boer War.

After reading the article, ESB overcharged households and undercharged big companies, large consumers. Now the €50 money they return it comes from the ESB / tax payers. Where is the reason in that? How are they going to get the large consumers to pay that back?

We need to get the full picture here of what was charged, on what basis, for how long etc. Journalists as usual doing nothing to really unearth this and just banging on about €50 refund.

Would have made sense for it to be nationally controlled. Why didn’t we ever think of doing that?