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AFAIK it's worse than that.
Airtricity withdrew from the residential electricity supply market in 2006.
So what do you want to happen - Would you prefer that Bord Gais DON'T enter this market?So after our liberated residential electricity market is there for years now with 2 companies actually allowing residential sales (ESB and Airtricity) in January a brand new company is going to sell electricity to residential customers.
Drum roll please… for …
Bord Gáis
Yes you read that right, the state owned and controlled Bord Gáis is going to sell us poor resident’s electricity now in competition to the other state owned and controlled ESB.
Wow so the state is now going to compete against the state with Airtricity struggling to compete at all despite their “clean” power.
And to avoid overpaying more people at Bord Gáis they outsourced the sales staff to Conduit .
This is amazing, we don’t have competition in the market and now we have 2 state businesses which all constantly shout that they don’t have enough money and do nothing to promote competition competing with each other.
What for a banana republic this is.
So what do you want to happen - Would you prefer that Bord Gais DON'T enter this market?
So what do you want to happen - Would you prefer that Bord Gais DON'T enter this market?
Yes.
Board Gais should concentrate on doing what they were set up to do, deliver gas at a resonable rate. Giving that they currently are making a mess out of it they should concentrate on their core business.
This is a move by the Irish Goverment to disguise that there is not competition in the market. Now they can say "we have 3 companies" while in reality there are only 2.
Having a company owned by the same organisation going after the customers of another company owned by the same organisation makes no sense, it's just generating cost that in the end leads to higher cost for both electricity and gas because somewhere they need to hide the cost that is coming out of luring people away from each other.
Perhaps you could clarify how Board gais are making a mess of their core business?Board Gais should concentrate on doing what they were set up to do, deliver gas at a resonable rate. Giving that they currently are making a mess out of it they should concentrate on their core business.
Wouldn't these same millions be spent ('wasted') by any new entrant to the market?Agreed, and wait till we see how many millions both State entities spend on advertising in their attempts to 'compete' with each other!.
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