§ Mr. Churchillasked the Secretary of State for Energy what is the price in £ sterling of electricity charged to the principal bulk industrial consumers in the United Kingdom, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United States of America and Japan; and how much discount this represents on the standard domestic tariff prevailing in each of those countries.
§ Mr. John MooreThe CBI has updated the NEDC task force's comparisons of electricity prices for large industrial users in the EC. The data, which assume that 1 February 1983 exchange rates applied on 1 October 1982, are as follows:
40 MW. Pence per KwH. Load Factor Per cent. England and Wales Germany France 40 2.67 3.69 2.38 60 2.64 3.08 2.24 80 2.62 2.69 2.07 Corresponding data for the USA and Japan are not available.
However the Electricity Council has published a comparison of the prices paid by typical industrial and domestic consumers of electricity in the United Kingdom, 331W France and Germany and of selected utilities in the USA and Japan at 1 August 1982. These data, which have been re-calculated assuming 1 February 1983 exchange rates applied on 1 August 1982, are as follows:
Pence per KwH. Industrial2½MW.; 40 per cent. load factor Domestic 3,300 KwH/annum France 3.05 5.62–6.07 Germany 4.16–5.41 6.23–7.40 United Kingdom 3.49–3.97 5.12–6.37 USA 4.40–4.79 3.69–6.07 Japan 5.51–5.70 8.30–8.42 Source: Electricity Council Survey.
Note:Information is not available on prices from all the utilities in the USA. The range of prices in the USA is therefore greater than that shown above. Prices for domestic consumption include all taxes, whereas those for industrial consumption include all taxes except VAT which is recoverable.