Key Fair Shares Facts in 2015

Government Policies

• Maintaining economy on even keel the priority
• Little money to invest as being used to purchase energy permits.
• Home generated electrcicity can now be sold back to the grid but is taxed as income.

Economy

• Energy prices have grown at 6% per year since 2005
• Petrol prices have increased by 80% since then
• Electricity prices have also increased by 80%
• Inflation tops 10% as higher energy costs work their way through the European economy. Salaries and wages fail to keep up although demand for labour is high.

Business

• Renewables are now 30% of energy generation, much of it individual or locally generated
• Resurgence of local business with lower overheads than global corporations

Households

• Plastic packaging becomes progressively expensive. Non-returnable glass & aluminium containers are banned
• Dramatic decrease in number of cars on the road
• Decline in number of single person households