EIUG is a single-issue lobby
group which campaigns for secure industrial energy supplies at internationally
competitive prices. Its members are trade associations and customer groups
representing energy-intensive industrial sectors that share a common interest
in energy matters. It is involved with representing their interests in dealings
with market regulators, competition authorities, government departments and the
business press. It has campaigned and lobbied on industrial energy consumer
issues for more than fifteen years.
EIUG has played a key role in:
- Pressing for liberalisation of the UK's gas and
electricity markets.
- Making the case for replacing the electricity pool and
introducing the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA).
- Lobbying for discounts under the Climate Change Levy for
energy-intensive sectors which undertake to improve energy efficiency.
- Providing industrial input into the Government's
long-term Energy Policy Review.
- Achieving investigations into gas prices and improvements
in market efficiency.
EIUG is the UK member of
IFIEC, the International Federation of
Industrial Energy Consumers, based in Brussels. IFIEC represents industrial
consumer interests on environmental energy issues at an international level,
and is the key consumer voice pressing for the creation of a single,
liberalised energy markets in Europe.
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