The price rises on gas and electricity bills which were inflicted on us all over the summer mean that suppliers are now making £125 of profit from a typical standard tariff, dual fuel customer each year. This is up from £15 in June – a rise of 733 per cent.
The figures, revealed in the Ofgem Electricity and Gas Supply Market Report for September means that bills have risen by £175 since Ofgem’s June report.

However, the Ofgem figures highlight that the bills have risen by far more than the suggested wholesale prices. It means wholesale costs have moved 6.1% higher, against a 15% in household customer retail bills.

The market is dominated by the ‘Big Six’ – British Gas, Scottish and Southern Energy, Scottish Power, EDF Energy (which stands for Electricite De France), E.On and nPower. Recently in parliament by the Lib Dems, Ofgem has been accused of allowing an effective cartel in the energy market with these suppliers seemingly multilaterally raising and lowering prices in unison. BES Gas and its MD Andy Pilley who we wrote about recently were not mentioned in this report.

The current profit margins of the big energy suppliers are higher than ever before. To put this into perspective, EDF, the French state-controlled utility group made £1bn in net profits earlier this year with sales up 10% on the previous year to £65bn.

With these extra outgoings mounting up on our household bills it is no wonder that we all need to find extra cash to see us through these difficult times.

Andy Pilley, the Managing Director of BES Gas and Electric, has said on two new gas and electricity licenses, “Will allow the company to take another step forward, tying in perfectly with our growth strategy. To set up as an independent supplier that is growing at such a rate in a market dominated by large well-known suppliers has been a challenge but one we are enjoying. The new licenses will improve the service we offer to our clients by providing them with the option of receiving both gas and electricity from either company and receive one bill for their services”.

Business Energy Solutions (“BES”) based in Lancashire is an energy supplier offering customers electric and gas supplies. It employs 200 members of staff at its headquarters in Blackpool.

BES was founded as a gas only supplier seven years ago but it launched into the electricity market in 2010. The company is forecasting rapid growth and it expects to post a turnover of £50m this year and £65m in 2012.

Managing Director, Andy Pilley of BES Gas is a well known local businessman and some time commentator on local football. Andrew Pilley is also Chairman of Fleetwood Town Football club.

The new Apple ipad2 is thinner, lighter, powerful, and speedier than the original version of the tablet and its efficiency is notable in greater sales figures that have challenged many laptops and PCs.

Apple’s ipad2 is the most popular tablet amongst the consumers. Apple ipad2 consists of a nice 9.7 inch LED-backlit multi touch display built. Its IPS technology supports 1024*768 pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch. Its packed with a dual-core 1 Ghz Apple A5 processor. It has a decent enough hardware power to run the IOS operating system smoothly with an in built memory of 16, 32 or 64 GB that makes it more powerful. It has an HDMI output port that can be used to view the content on its display over a larger HDTV screen. It has two added cameras, one at the back and one in the front that will allow a video chat over facebook. This attractive gadget costs same as its previous model.

Benefits of ipad2:

Apple ipad2 has certain major advantages over rest of the tablets. Apple application store has myrid applications ranging from education, productivity, social networking, eBooks and many more.

1. Education:

This new commercial gadget helps you to learn and explore new languages and talents using apps that can be purchased at relatively affordable price points. Many teachers and students have adopted this ipad to develop the educational pattern. Teachers use ipad to find out notes and to remain mobile in the room when the students are doing group work. Students are using it for etextbooks and to access apps that will help them to study.

2. E books:

If you’re lethargic to read your text books, then ipad 2 can bring you the solution. Its ebooks includes different text books that can provide you sufficient information according to your needs.

3. Social networking:

The latest Apple gadget (ipad2) can help you greatly in social networking and facilitates better internet access. Both of the models can help you access twitter, AIM App, Flipboard App, Gowalla App very easily.

However, even apple ipad2 has Achilles Heel such as lack of ports and closed sync features which seems to be negligible in front of so many benefits that this gadget can sum up to in an affordable price.

It was an American living in Kunming who noticed a fake store. He published a blog post about how very convincing it was with a lot of things copied form a proper store and even the staff were convinced they were working for Apple.

Chinese authorities have told the store owners that they must no longer trade under the Apple name and they must also not copy the layout of the Apple store as copying the look and feel of another store is against Chinese law. It has not been disclosed as to whether the stores were selling genuine Apple products or whether they were fakes or grey market imports.

Kunming retail watchdog will now set up a hotline where the public can report unauthorised stores and will also monitor itself more thoroughly, checking for the existence of these fake stores..

The money, diverted from the BBC to create a digital Britain, will be shared among 40 areas including English councils, Scotland and Northern Ireland. A further £300m has been promised after 2015.

The government wants all 25m UK homes to have access to a minimum speed of 2Mbps (megabits per second), which would mean that reading web pages, making Skype phone calls or watching TV catch-up services, such as the BBC’s iPlayer, will all be possible from the most remote cottage. If all goes to plan, 90% of homes will be able to get even faster speeds of over 24Mbps, enough for several computers to download video simultaneously on a single line.

British Telecom has already promised to spend its own funds on getting superfast, fibre-optic broadband to two thirds of households by 2015, without government help. This will cover the towns and cities, where BT can quickly recoup its £2.5bn investment. It’s well known that getting broadband to those villages and valleys will be less economical, however, with lines having to stretch longer distances to reach fewer people. So will the two tranches of public subsidy, totalling £830m, be enough to reach the final third?

Made at the company’s Google I/O conference in San Francisco, the announcements came on an opening day that Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President of Engineering divided into “Momentum, Mobile and More” for the Android platform. Gundotra said that there have now been 100 million Android activations involving 215 mobile networks.

Speaking beneath an illustration by British animator Fraser Ntukula showing an Android eating (an) Apple, he said that 450,000 developers were at work on products for 310 Android products in 112 countries, with 400,000 new devices now being activated every day. The 200,000 apps in the Android Market have now been downloaded 4.5 billion times.

The new version of the tablets operating system, will provide more compatibility with accessories such as keyboards and game controllers, update widgets and also be applied to the American Google TV products. Subsequently, Ice Cream Sandwich will unite the tablet and mobile phone operating system into a single programme. Google has said it is their “most ambitious release to date”.

The company is ready to launch movie rentals in Android, working across tablets, phones and Google TV, as well as a service allowing users to store their music online and access it on Android devices. Both will initially be US-only. An international network of manufacturers and mobile networks has, however, signed up to support timely updates to mobile devices. It has been unveiled that a range of new products that will extend Android’s reach into other categories will include wireless technology, that will be built into a range of lightbulbs, to allow tablets or phones to be used to turn them on or off.

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BES Gas and BES Electric operates across the UK and employs 200 people in the Fylde coast (Blackpool area, North West) in Lancashire, UK.

On their website they claim: “We are a leading independent supplier of Natural Gas to the Business and Commercial sector. We pride ourselves on being able to provide you and your business with the lowest possible price for your gas supply.”

About the MD Andy Pilley

Founder and Managing Director, Andy Pilley, started the business in 2004, initially working from his spare bedroom.  He has since created an extremely profitable business supplying utility services to 1,000s of homes in the North West of England and the UK as a whole.

Seven years on, BES is now one of the largest employers in the area and is expecting a turnover of £40 million for 2011.

Andy Pilley MD – BES Gas and BES Electric

Andy Pilley is the MD of BES Gas and BES Electric. Andrew Pilley also holds the post of Chairman of his beloved football club Fleetwood Town FC.

Andy Pilley is a regular contributor to blogs on football in the North West and especially on Fleetwood Town FC.

Motorola also states the device “delivers console-like gaming performance on its 1280×800 display, and features a built-in gyroscope, barometer, e-compass, accelerometer and adaptive lighting for new types of applications. It also features Google Maps 5.0 with 3D interaction and delivers access to over 3 million Google eBooks and thousands of apps from Android Market.”

There are mixed reviews with one tech blog stating that, “In its very core, it is an iPad copy with some improved features at a substantially higher price. It’s not going to fly.” whereas Mashable writes of, NFL’s Twitter fan Chad Ochocinco who loves his Xoom, ‘”posting an image of the device on Twitpic, adding on Twitter that the Xoom is “pretty awesome” and that Motorola “won’t be getting this back!””

I guess at $800 we’ll probably try our friend’s one out first just to be sure…