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Pricing in the UK retail energy market, 2005 - 2013

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  • Catherine Waddams Price

    (Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia)

  • Minyan Zhu

    (Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia)

Abstract

UK governments and the energy regulator have shown increasing concern about the health of competition in the residential energy market, following their pioneering deregulation at the end of the last century. We identify the effects of introducing the non discrimination clauses in 2009, a major regulatory intervention and the first since deregulation. We explore the effect of this intervention on the price movements of the six major players, and find that the nature of competition in the industry has changed, with less effective rivalry between the regional incumbents and large regional competitors following the intervention; companies seem to have ‘retreated’ to their home regions, leaving a market where pricing behaviour resembles more closely a duopoly between British Gas and the regional incumbent

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  • Catherine Waddams Price & Minyan Zhu, 2013. "Pricing in the UK retail energy market, 2005 - 2013," Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) 2013-12, Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
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