Electricity 'Cash-back', but only for big companies.

[Workingman]

National Grid is going to offer cash incentives to companies to cut wastage in the winter months, especially in the hours between 16:00 and 20:00, as it tries save 330 megawatts (MW) of power and avoid power cuts for all.

How very fortunate for the companies, not so for us household users. Many of us have already done our collective bit, at costs to ourselves, by installing double glazing, cavity wall and roof insulation, low-energy appliances and light bulbs and so on. All we got were price rises.

I have an alternative for NG to consider: Charge large users a King's ransom for electricity over a certain amount between the hours of 16:00 to 20:00 in winter; and make it law that those costs cannot be passed on. They will be falling over themselves to switch unnecessary things off.

[debih]

A much better idea.

WM FOR PRIMEMINISTER

[cromwell]

The wholesale costs of energy have fallen by 40% recently - but my blinking bill hasn't!

The utility companies are a racket; they make Al Capone look like an amateur!

[Workingman]

The utility companies are a racket; they make Al Capone look like an amateur!

Don't they! Why is it that they have to be incentivised, to their advantage, to behave in a proper way when the little man is punished to the nth to force them to behave?