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Electricity prices: differential between GB and NI has worsened since Single Electricity Market

Turgon on August 28, 2011, 5:42 pm

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Mick has already done a piece on the rise in electricity prices in Northern Ireland. In May Jim Allister asked a series of questions about electricity pricing here: Question: Mr Jim Allister (TUV – North Antrim) To ask the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment how the average cost of a household electricity bill in Northern Ireland compares to the average bill in Great Britain. Answer: The average household electricity bill in Northern Ireland during 2010 is estimated at £496 …

NI Energy Minister: “I have received assurances from ESB on a range of issues relating to the transaction.”

Pete Baker on September 21, 2010, 5:07 pm

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The BBC reports that the Northern Ireland First Minister, Peter Robinson, wearing his other hat as leader of the DUP, and out-going UUP leader Reg Empey have jointly written to the Irish government to object to the proposed sale of NI Electricity (NIE) to the state-owned Electricity Supply Board (ESB). NIE is currently owned, through Viridian, by Arcapita, a Bahrain-based bank. A RTÉ report adds It has emerged that Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and outgoing UUP leader Reg …

“As far as I’m concerned it’s business as usual.”

Pete Baker on August 23, 2010, 11:13 pm

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Perhaps an unfortunate turn of phrase deployed by the Northern Ireland Regional Development Minister, Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy, of a department whose Permanent Secretary has just been suspended pending investigation over the NI Water saga – ostensibly for surreptitiously drafting a letter of complaint to the PAC [for a third party]. Meanwhile, UTV’s Jamie Delargy reports that Northern Ireland Electricity has also been guilty of not putting out some contracts to competitive tendering. While the proper process was followed with some of the …