Dual fuel. There’s a quote for the HUKD link from yesterday in this thread that gives you the steps.
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Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)
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You'd hope that we are through the bulk of the cold weather now. Obviously still lot of potential for global cold spell in Northern hemisphere, but its February now.
Seems like (all things considered) prices will likely come down at least a little.
Soldato
Prices may come down a bit but government support will also reduce.
Last I saw they expected prices to go up in April (reduced support) and come down in July, but be in between now and April pricing, ie still higher than we have today.
Last I saw they expected prices to go up in April (reduced support) and come down in July, but be in between now and April pricing, ie still higher than we have today.
Just keep an eye on wind levels and the data regularly, they will go up at some point.
Of course they could also go down, the current rates are not as good as oct/nov were.
Winderful - Wind energy is currently producing 7,450 MW.
That's enough to power 37,437,186 PS5s!
winderful.uk
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You can also send an email asking them to swap your tariffs like I did this morning and it's also free to swap back.
I save about 12p combined for my standing charges and then for electricity I save 11p per kWh and on gas I save about 4p per kWh.
Yeah is a deffo surge in demand for tracker now, I wonder if Octopus will pull it again.
Even on the high capped tracker I would say its worth it as gas has been almost consistently below EPG throughout the autumn and winter months, Electric not performing quite as good but still below EPG more than above it (and only apparently peaking at 37p not super high).
Even on the high capped tracker I would say its worth it as gas has been almost consistently below EPG throughout the autumn and winter months, Electric not performing quite as good but still below EPG more than above it (and only apparently peaking at 37p not super high).
Soldato
Nope, still going, it's on https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/be...th-a-tracker-tariff-at-octopus-energy-4078767.
Strange, it’s not on the ‘Hottest’ section now but also hasn’t expired.
Edit: Looks like it’s only disappeared if you look at hottest today.
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Soldato
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indeed..... my wife and mother in law got quite bored of me constantly monitoring my use and maximising our energy generation combined with cheap electricity periods.
my father in law however went the other way and got a system..... so now there is no escape for my mother in law
it has truly opened my eyes to the energy cost of things as well as how small changes can make large differences to costs.
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From March to September, I typically get about 150 miles a week of 'free' solar miles going into my EV
My solar divert priority is 1: battery, 2: Hot Water, 3: EV and 4: Export
If you are able to heat your water with a conventional gas boiler, you want to be switching around the Hot Water & EV prioritisation. Using gas is cheaper than charging an EV anywhere other than at home.
My gas is 10p kWh and my off-peak electric is 7.5p. So cheaper to use electric
Also, with the Government giving out £67 a month onto the electric account, we are currently building up a larger credit balance which needs to be used up. So even if electric was slightly more expensive I would still use it.
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I didn’t really consider that when we heat up the downstairs for the weekend, that it seems cheaper to run the air con heat pump unit for 30-40 mins to bring the room up to temperature (worked out at about 70p) than the underfloor heating that takes about 7-8 hours to achieve the same result. Then switch over to underfloor to maintain the heat.
Caporegime
Moved to Octopus a few days ago and got put on their tracker earlier today. Previous prices were 10p/35p and currently showing as 7p/23p with basically identical standing charges.
In my opinion tracker beats Agile for electric unless you load your usage off peak, Agile will show you the average cost for the day for information purposes, and tracker is consistently lower than the average on Agile.
As an example your tracker was 23p, my average on Agile was 27p.
Shell reports highest profits in 115 years
Critics call for higher taxes on energy firms as Shell reports a record $39.9bn of profit.
www.bbc.co.uk
Oil and gas giant Shell has reported record annual profits after energy prices surged last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Profits hit $39.9bn (£32.2bn) in 2022, double last year's total and the highest in its 115-year history.
"Inflation" - lol
Honestly we should all collectively just sit at home and say "nope", until something is done about these greedy vulture like ****.
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Soldato
Indeed, the windfall tax should be taken as everything that is over previous year profit + inflation rate of 2022. So £19.32bn profit still and then £12.88bn back to those orignal countries. Bearing in mind that only 5% is UK based so it would be £644 million UK tax wise.
Permabanned
NHS would be happy to receive that money.
Caporegime
Shell reports highest profits in 115 years
Critics call for higher taxes on energy firms as Shell reports a record $39.9bn of profit.www.bbc.co.uk
Oil and gas giant Shell has reported record annual profits after energy prices surged last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Profits hit $39.9bn (£32.2bn) in 2022, double last year's total and the highest in its 115-year history.
"Inflation" - lol
Honestly we should all collectively just sit at home and say "nope", until something is done about these greedy vulture like ****.
Something something... only make ridiculous profits not mega profits over COVID, have a right to make money, shareholders, reinvestment etc etc.
The oil and gas industry is quite literally a racket. Absolutely disgusting.
Fuel prices at the pumps should have dropped but haven't either. But why would they when no one forces them to. No one can stop heating their house or filling their car. They have you over a barrel.
Not true but if it makes a good story.
UK pump prices over time
This chart tracks the changes in petrol and diesel prices over time (weekly on a Monday, rolling ten year period) and is based on BEIS data published each Tuesd
www.racfoundation.org