[volkadav]

We're around there (hand-waving here about exchange rate) in Scotland. What's fucked up is that most of the UK's power is generated in the north and yet electricity rates are based on how far you are from London.

[scarab92]

That doesn't sound that crazy.

Much of your energy bill is distribution costs, which is a combinational of infrastructure costs and transmission losses.

Transmission losses will be small anywhere in the UK (because it's tiny), but infrastructure costs will vary a lot based on population density.

It's cheaper to erect a few large transmission lines to London than it is to distribute power around the less dense North.