Le groupe, contraint de vendre sa production à prix cassé pour contenir la hausse des tarifs, a annoncé avoir «déposé ce jour un recours contentieux auprès du Conseil d'État».

Le groupe, contraint de vendre sa production à prix cassé pour contenir la hausse des tarifs, a annoncé avoir «déposé ce jour un recours contentieux auprès du Conseil d'État».

Le groupe, contraint de vendre sa production à prix cassé pour contenir la hausse des tarifs, a annoncé avoir «déposé ce jour un recours contentieux auprès du Conseil d'État».

The UK is planning for several days over the winter when cold weather may combine with gas shortages, leading to organized blackouts for industry and even households.

Under the government’s latest “reasonable worst-case scenario,” Britain could face an electricity capacity shortfall totaling about a sixth of peak demand, even after emergency coal plants have been fired up, according to people familiar with the government’s planning. Under that outlook, below-average temperatures and reduced electricity imports from Norway and France could expose four days in January when the UK may need to trigger emergency measures to conserve gas, they said.

Life could get more difficult for Britain if supply of electricity is curtailed along huge cables connecting to France, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands. Norway said on Monday it’s looking at ways to limit power exports in winter to prevent domestic shortages.

The UK is planning for several days over the winter when cold weather may combine with gas shortages, leading to organized blackouts for industry and even households.

Under the government’s latest “reasonable worst-case scenario,” Britain could face an electricity capacity shortfall totaling about a sixth of peak demand, even after emergency coal plants have been fired up, according to people familiar with the government’s planning. Under that outlook, below-average temperatures and reduced electricity imports from Norway and France could expose four days in January when the UK may need to trigger emergency measures to conserve gas, they said.

If they materialize, the power cuts would come even as Britons face up to average annual energy bills possibly rising above £4,200 ($5,086) in January from just under £2,000 currently, stoking already soaring inflation.

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“In the UK, a lot of the highest earners are concentrated in City of London jobs, usually in the finance, professional and technical industries. Mean pay in these industries has seen especially strong growth in 2022 with year-on-year increases in finance and insurance peaking at 19.8% in February and remaining well above 10.0% in the latest data.”
 
Professional, scientific and IT sector workers also saw wage growth peak in February at 12.7%.

“These wage spikes are reflective of a robust recent performance in the sector and of the fact that workers in these industries commonly receive performance-linked bonuses which represent a significant share of overall compensation,” the report added.

Excluding bonuses, pay adjusted for the Office for National Statistics’ preferred measure of inflation – the consumer prices index including housing (CPIH) – fell by 2.8%, the biggest fall since records began in 2001.

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What awaits us when temperatures drop, and lives become unlivable? We may well be about to enter the era of the “warm bank”. In Bristol, the city council is readying “welcoming places”, where people who need warmth will be able to go if their homes get too cold. Dundee is planning an array of “cosy spaces”; in Aberdeen, a city council spokesperson recently said they would be offering libraries and other public buildings to “give people the opportunity to stay warm where required”.

Just about all the tensions that have eaten away at British politics since the crash of 2008 – from the fraying of the United Kingdom to the scourge of blame-the-foreigner populism – will presumably worsen; social unrest is surely a distinct possibility. These will be the results not just of the energy crisis, but long years of austerity and institutionalised cruelty, overseen by Tory politicians who thought they could ignore the central socio-political lesson of the 20th century: that if you want order and stability, you should always try to minimise fear.

Capping wages in the City

Bank officials said they increased interest rates by 0.5 percentage points – the largest margin in more than 25 years – because they feared wage rises next year would outstrip inflation and generate a wage/price spiral.

They admit there is little evidence of workers using their muscle to secure high wage rises at the moment, but this could change if inflation remains high.

To emphasise how weak pay demands have been so far, the latest official figures show average earnings increased by 4.3% over the year to June and 6.2% with bonuses. The vast bulk of the bonuses are paid in the financial, professional and business services industries.