Energy Prices

This month energy companies are sending their customers the yearly bill. This year, again, Dutch consumers will be confronted with higher prices to pay for gas and electricity. Resentment about this is almost tangible. The energy market has been reformed. Governments and companies involved, promised it would be to the benefit of the consumer. So far, nothing of that has come true. After another year of increasing prices people are getting frustrated. You try to reduce on the energy you use and even then you end up paying more .Than you did the year before. Liberalizing the market was supposed to be a good thing. The main beneficiaries so far seem to be the energy companies.
The weather hasn't been that bad so far, but financially it already has turned out a rotten winter.