Eesti Energia: power tariffs to go up between 50 and 60%

"There is also a fine for termination of contract is 20% of the agreed electricity purchase amount."

Screw you!

How many suppliers are there in the country even with so-called market liberalisation. You're right we are screwed!

Are adhesion contracts actually legal in Estonia?

In normal countries, these are null and void and considered as immoral transaction.

You do know that wind power costs the most, don't ya. That is why Danes are no where near Swedish or Norwegian level despite being close to Germany and having relatively stable economy.

I wouldn't bet my future on this, that solar energy would never become an alternate cheap solution to conventional supply of electricity, especially compared to EE's dinosauric , but inefficient oil shale production:

http://www.energyharvestingjournal.com/articles/plastic-solar-cells-cheaper-and-more-sustainable-00004756.asp?sessionid=1

He is paid according to the job. I suppose if you think it is so easy you could apply for it or recommend some rural Estonian to it, but I doubt that would work.

Speaking about competency, what if we just sell the whole thing from rural Estonia to the somrwhat more productive Germans or Swedes (e.on, vattenfall, you name it.) I mean, since we anyway face price hikes, what could possibly go wrong?

Estonians have a national pride in this sort of thing. Don't know why. They already sold their beer makers to foreigners. Yeah I know, I know what the propaganda guy will say "Most of our beer consumption and smoking is due to foreign tourists". Arrogance will never allow them to make smart decisions. Another thing I noticed is that Estonian person rarely admits when he or she is wrong. Mature adults can admit their mistakes, but this is an infantile nation we are talking about.

I will do that after Eesti starts earning money on its own instead of going to beg for it from Brussels and Helsinki.

Eesti Energia (and also other "money-making-firms") know, rhat the Estonian citizen is in European and foreighn politics as much interested as to grow mushrooms in the bathroom for example, and they use the desinterest, telling stories about other European countries (who will proof this seriously?), counti on this and make money on this. It´s quite clever, I think.

Iam convinced, if Estonia let foreighn energy-server here into the market, the electrical energy-prices will even fall, because there doesn´t exist any monopol anymore.

That is where you are wrong. There will be competing electricity from other countries on the market.

And this is good so.
Estonia is not Russia or China, where a dictator can decide, what is going on and what not, and what prices are to pay.

The problem with Eesti Energia is that they are run by the gonverment (state owned).

Scheileke, remember when Deutsche Telekom (DTAG) was government owned?

What a horrific prices and services we had back then, and they are still a little backwarded, due to all the clerics working there they the can't get rid of them so fast.

Same with Deutsche Post.

It will take some time until the liberation of the energy market in Estonia will improve prices and quality of services, and that this is going to happen shows the fear of Eesti Energia who wants to keep customers by implementing a 20% penalty on termination.

I also think that such terms and conditions are a fraud and impeding market, and I am pretty sure that Eesti Energia will face court actions on that (if not from their customers, but from competitors). Let's see.

That would be correct, unless there is the same system as in Latvia, that technically thereare various electricity providers, however, only one company owns network, so they price accordingly the network fee, thus put the competition out