Electricity prices

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[GummerMustGo]

"A very cool and damp Sydney" ..... and a freezing North Britain, with roads blocked by snow.

Can anybody work out the differences in real energy costs?

[Rob]

Stage 19 of the Giro cancelled due to "unseasonably heavy snow".

I remember the alarmists predicting about 10,15 years ago that snow would be one incredibly rare in Europe. Can anyone else remember this?

[Roy]

The Greenies will probably be delighted that the graph clearly shows the success of their policies in Europe. They will be demanding that Japan and the United States (they probably hold out no hope for China) follow Europe's lead in discouraging energy use in order to save the planet.

[MikeH]

One of the govt statistics sites showed electricity price data for 2011, all in p/kWh (no info on exchange rates used). The graphic was not very precise so these were assessed by Mk1 eyeball:
Industrial: US 4; EU 8; Japan 12
Domestic: US 7; EU 15; Japan 16

Gas prices are usually reported as: US $4 per MMBTU; EU 12; Japan 16.

[sherlock1]

Also - according to the Crown Estate (because it is they that actually control the reserve supplies) - at a point in March, we in the UK only had SIX HOURS-worth of gas left.
Poo-pooed of course by National Grid, who admit that reserves were 'a bit low' (!) at that point in time, due to a problem with the Norway connector and other factors - however of course everything in the garden is now rosy.
This government is really taking energy security seriously, isn't it..?

[nTropywins]

The BBC have a piece on the energy cost differential between EU and US

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22652066

no mention of the Green stupidity

[Jon]

"The increase seems to exactly coincide with the release of "an inconvenient truth"."

Convenient lies