Oil won’t be around forever - Shell themselves state their peak oil production was 2019 and is now declining year on year. A large part of Shell‘s investment is achieving carbon net zero and expanding support for electric vehicles, hydrogen, biofuels and electricity generated by wind and solar power.
I think if someone has fixed it will be between them and their supplier to sort it out. Hopefully they will be allowed to drop back to svr without cost, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
You mean investing in other forms of revenue streams so that they can continue to earn obscene amounts of profit.
Its getting crazy, am old and decrepit now at 63 and very, very physically disabled before my time but still of sound mind I hope
Submitted my monthly August readings to Octopus whom despite name are well regarded as a UK Energy company and still cant get my usage down, really made a conscious effort to reduce my electricity usage since July and becoming aware of this impending mess.
This new bill is still sky high and before new caps come in that is by far the highest, my gas seems almost affordable in comparison, but even using gas for my boiler uses electricity, you cant winMy weekly Asda usual weekly shop rises every week now and its beyond crazy , have already sacrificed my BBC license, TV access and now on basic Sky broadband ,,, i cant lose anymore than that ... what else can I sacrifice to the Gods of Greed Profit and Energy? when will it all stop?
What are we going to do? Living alone and elderly with nobody to lean on I'm honestly sick with worry and fear just now.
Hope its a mild Winter? its almost upon us I fear.
Hard times ahead, take care all.
Am with Octopus and it's the default for me to pay variable:
I disagree with estimated DD because after a year you've paid the same total anyway, if you have the money to handle ups and downs, it's better to be on variable.
Caveat that I know not everyone can do this, but if you can self-fund the more expensive months in winter, I find variable works better.
sorry to hear you are struggling. you are right everything sucks at the moment. our family is generally quite fortunate but we have bought hotwaterbottles and electric blankets all round along with extra thick douvets. I think the heating will get a lot less use this year. not much we can do about the crashing £ and the huge increase in the weekly shopIts getting crazy, am old and decrepit now at 63 and very, very physically disabled before my time but still of sound mind I hope
Submitted my monthly August readings to Octopus whom despite name are well regarded as a UK Energy company and still cant get my usage down, really made a conscious effort to reduce my electricity usage since July and becoming aware of this impending mess.
This new bill is still sky high and before new caps come in that is by far the highest, my gas seems almost affordable in comparison, but even using gas for my boiler uses electricity, you cant win
What are we going to do? Living alone and elderly with nobody to lean on I'm honestly sick with worry and fear just now.
Hope its a mild Winter? its almost upon us I fear.
Hard times ahead, take care all.
sorry to hear you are struggling. you are right everything sucks at the moment. our family is generally quite fortunate but we have bought hotwaterbottles and electric blankets all round along with extra thick douvets. I think the heating will get a lot less use this year. not much we can do about the crashing £ and the huge increase in the weekly shop
like you I am hoping for a mild but breezy winter because if not it's going to be rough for a lot of folk.
taking on a lodger whilst not a solution for all is certainly something a lot of folk can do.
true hot water bottles and electric blankets do need energy.... but a lot less than heating your whole house imoThanks Mike but Hot water bottles need energy to fill too, not very efficient
Thinking back to my old job, building oil rigs in NE Scotland, we'd sometimes request thermal boiler suits in winter and oh WOW they were good, out in the winter elements, you felt cozy for a bit, its drastic measures in drastic times, am not proud at all and will do all it takes to stay warm this winter. Probably wil go to order up a couple of similar Thermal boiler suits very soon ... wish it were all a joke, but we're into September already and before we know it the cold nights will be upon us and the newer dreaded high bill tariffs too.
Take care all.
Its getting crazy, am old and decrepit now at 63 and very, very physically disabled before my time but still of sound mind I hope
Submitted my monthly August readings to Octopus whom despite name are well regarded as a UK Energy company and still cant get my usage down, really made a conscious effort to reduce my electricity usage since July and becoming aware of this impending mess.
This new bill is still sky high and before new caps come in that is by far the highest, my gas seems almost affordable in comparison, but even using gas for my boiler uses electricity, you cant win
What are we going to do? Living alone and elderly with nobody to lean on I'm honestly sick with worry and fear just now.
Hope its a mild Winter? its almost upon us I fear.
Hard times ahead, take care all.
Sorry to hear you're struggling mate
If your electricity bill is sky high still there must be something driving it up there.
I managed to get my bill from ~£120 a month in April (due to being very blasé about energy consumption) down to £50-£70 over the last few months.
It's worth doing a full energy "audit" on your home, just sit and think about everything which uses electricity and think about how often it is left switched on at the plug.
The thing that changed mine the most (which won't affect you if you've got gas probably) was my hot water heater. I believe my flat has a unvented cylinder system, and I had it sent to heat hot water between 12am-7am because that's just what it was when I moved in. It's not set to heat water for only one hour a night and this is more than enough for two long showers a day and washing up etc etc.
Everything other than my router, 1 x smart plug, 3 x WiZ smart bulbs and my wireless phone charger get switched off at the plug before I go to sleep and then i'm out of the house 7am-6pm nearly every weekday so nothing comes back on till i'm home and usually only a few hours.
It really is the little things that make a big difference when the unit rate of electricity is so high as they all add up across a month!
EDIT: Reading this back I can see it could come across as quite patronising, this wasn't my intention and just trying to share some information which has helped me reduce my bills
i am probably being naive so do not take this as fact. But i have no problem at all with smart meters. logically they make sense to me. Where we have a product whos costs change every hr then it seems sensible to have monitoring equipement which can tell at what time points we are using the energy.Good advice and thanks, will go audit my electricity usage from today ... one more reason for me to go Smart meter i suppose
Can't do that here unfortunately.
