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About your Electricity Supply
Before the great sell-off led by the Conservative government in the 1980s, there was only one place to get your electricity from, and that was the electricity board...
About your Gas Supply
The privatisation of the gas industry in the UK came about in the early 1980s, only forty years after it had been nationalised. That nationalisation had been part of...
Comparing and Switching
One of the benefits to the consumer of all the upheaval in the utilities market is that customers can now choose to switch between different suppliers. This might be...
Different Payment Methods
Regardless of the utility you're using and the payment plan that you're on, at some point you'll have to pay. There are five basic ways of paying for the utilities...
Domestic Water and Sewage Services
When the water and sewage services were privatised in 1989, as one of a raft of privatisations that the Conservative government had promised when elected a decade...
Ethical Utility Providers
These days, climate change is a watchword for all our lives. We recycle, try to be very aware of the energy we use, and to keep our carbon footprints small....
Questionnaire: Storage Heaters or Central Heating?
This used to be such an easy question to answer – it was gas-fired central heating every time.
Not only does central heating fit in...
What Happens if You Can't Pay Your Bill?
If you get into financial trouble then the last thing that you need is the threat of being cut off from any utilities. The main thing to bear in...
