Gas Debt and Disconnections
Gas Debt and Disconnections

Author: Karen Rowlingson

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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Disentangles the complex reasons behind why people get into debt and are then disconnected from their gas supply.

Law and the Regulators
Law and the Regulators

Author: Tony Prosser

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780198763918

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This book will, for the first time, offer a comprehensive analysis of the legal duties which apply to the regulators of privatized industries, transport, civil aviation and independent television in the United Kingdom, with detailed accounts of how these duties have been put into practice bythe regulators. There is an assessment of the philosophy behind these principles, and an account of the principles which can be derived from the law of the European Union, which are relevant to regulators' work. Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction of the encouragement of competition,the encouragement of economic efficiency and the implementation of social goals such as the provision of universal public service, and the way in which these various principles interact.

Energy and Social Policy (Routledge Revivals)
Energy and Social Policy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Jonathan Bradshaw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1317564340

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Energy price rises have been amongst the biggest change that has taken place in our society over the last few decades. Their impact, particularly when this book was first published in 1983, had a growing importance in social policy, practice and research, and fuel was, and still is, a major public issue. This collection of essays describes how any why domestic fuel prices have been rising faster than other prices and incomes, what impacts this has on domestic budgets, and the extent of ‘fuel poverty’. The resulting problems of debts, disconnections, cold conditions and hypothermia are discussed by specialists in these fields. This book is ideal for students of economics and social policy.

Fuel Prices
Fuel Prices

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Trade and Industry Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9780215024992

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The Committee's report examines the recent price increases in gas supply and the resulting rises in electricity prices (as about 40 per cent of electricity generation in England and Wales is gas-fired), focusing on the effects of the price increases on all types of energy customers. The report seeks to assess whether the rises are a temporary response to short-term supply problems or the start of a long-term increase in UK energy prices, and to consider possible responses by Ofgem, the regulator of the gas and electricity markets, and the DTI to the problem. Topics discussed include: Ofgem's report into wholesale gas prices and reactions to it; the decline in production from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS); gas storage and supply issues; the behaviour and transparency of the gas market and regulation issues; oil indexation in gas contracts; competition within European markets; vertical integration; the electricity market; new infrastructure projects; and the future of gas prices.