That is paying your bill to people who only pretend to sell it to you but cheaper.
'Cheaper'?
Electricity distribution price controls cost UK households an extra £800m
"UK Households have paid an extra £800m in total for electricity because the pricing and investment targets set for the network companies were too easy to reach...
The National Audit Office (NAO) said that although customer service has been good, the rules set out by industry regulator Ofgem, were too generous. There is one year left on the current eight-year pricing regime.
Under the scheme, Ofgem allows networks a certain amount of cash to run and invest in their systems.
If they spend less they can keep half of the savings, using it to reward investors and shareholders, and return half to customers. It was anticipated that the network companies would underspend the set allowance by 3%.
In fact the underspend for eight of the nine distributors for the full eight years is expected to exceed this, with one firm, National Grid Energy Transmission, forecasting a huge 22% underspend.
That means bumper payouts for investors, typically around 9%, compared with between 5% and 6% at other UK companies.
The NOA says if the spending cap had been tougher in the first place, consumers would have paid less and investor returns would have been more reasonable."
Add in the 'green taxes' (subsidies) etc to utility bills, and the so-called 'competition' is but a pretence!
Which comes back to...
Anyway, it's all moot if you actually think the BBC should spend ALL of the licence income just because it is there - rather than reduce it because some is left over.
At least any 'underspend' isn't being creamed off by 'investors'!
