Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)

{SAS}TB · 2 Dec 2023 at 19:18

Jupiter said:
Anyone have any recommendations for wood burning stoves? It seems the wood cost outweighs any gas savings

May be better off in here :

Fire Thread! - Stoves, Wood, Axes, Chainsaws

Yeah, utter nonsense. Freshly felled wood for sale - great for decorating your log store/shed during the summer. Jobs a good 'un :)

forums.overclockers.co.uk

413x · 3 Dec 2023 at 01:47

200sols said:
I couldn't live in a house heated like that.

I love the heat. But 29c via radiators is too much.
And horrendously expensive.

Susprised police haven't been round on suspicion of growing the whacky backy

alec · 4 Dec 2023 at 09:42

Andr3w said:
The boiler has a ‘control’ twizzle knob on the front of it, you can turn it between min-max.

What exactly is this for and where should it be set? It’s at roughly what I’d guess as 60% between min/max

regulates how hot the water flow gets before boiler turns off
turn it down if radiators get too hot and overshoot set room temperature, turn it up to heat house faster

on newer condensing boilers you want water flow temperature as low as is functionally acceptable to achieve peak efficiency
but on old boilers doesn't make much difference

MatsyLR · 4 Dec 2023 at 14:06

413x said:
I love the heat. But 29c via radiators is too much.
And horrendously expensive.

Susprised police haven't been round on suspicion of growing the whacky backy

Got birds on your roof, dead giveaway

413x · 4 Dec 2023 at 14:09

MatsyLR said:
Got birds on your roof, dead giveaway

Pigeons are always pooling On my roof.
But it's because they are after the scraps from bird feeders!

delta0 · 5 Dec 2023 at 14:22

Another saving session tonight. Octopus really need to stagger the notifications for people. Every time it overwhelms the website.

crazyDAJT · 5 Dec 2023 at 14:33

delta0 said:
Another saving session tonight. Octopus really need to stagger the notifications for people. Every time it overwhelms the website.

It’s part of the plan to see how consumers behave. This is a short notice one, the rate is low compared to last week so is more of a test.

I find it comes up on FB first, then WhatsApp a few hr’s later. Then an email much later.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 5 Dec 2023 at 15:06

Best ideally to keep the savings session stuff in the thread we have had since last year in home and garden.

Todays rate is based on the normal rate, the last sessions based on the enhanced rate.

jpaul · 5 Dec 2023 at 18:32

delta0 said:
Another saving session tonight. Octopus really need to stagger the notifications for people. Every time it overwhelms the website.

Do stagger notifications - they experimented with what savings would occur with shorter notice notification which they'd like to optionally deploy,
you can dig up a research paper where they present results.

gbradders123 · 5 Dec 2023 at 18:35

Jupiter said:
Anyone have any recommendations for wood burning stoves? It seems the wood cost outweighs any gas savings

If you are buying wood in iwould imagine its the most expensive way of heating your home! Cant beat sitting in front of a fire in the evening though!

darkgen · 5 Dec 2023 at 18:35

I've still yet to see the results from last weeks "events!

delta0 · 5 Dec 2023 at 20:42

jpaul said:
Do stagger notifications - they experimented with what savings would occur with shorter notice notification which they'd like to optionally deploy,
you can dig up a research paper where they present results.

They always seem to crash their own website after announcing it via WhatsApp.

Neil79 · 5 Dec 2023 at 20:49

darkgen said:
I've still yet to see the results from last weeks "events!

Hi Neil,

We'll make your electricity free at TN25 between 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM on the 06/12/23. Get ready to Power up!

Still nothing showing up for 30/11/23 in which I used £5 worth of electric in two hours taking advantage of the free leccy :mad:

pinkpound · 6 Dec 2023 at 11:21

Can anyone recommend a a supplier for charging a electric car over night ? , the Wife is getting a company car and they want to fit a home charger .

Sainsburys is our provider for dual fuel at the moment .

Thanks

Neil79 · 6 Dec 2023 at 11:32

pinkpound said:
Can anyone recommend a a supplier for charging a electric car over night ? , the Wife is getting a company car and they want to fit a home charger .

Sainsburys is our provider for dual fuel at the moment .

Thanks

Octopus GO , I think!

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 6 Dec 2023 at 12:59

Yes Octopus

Maybe go, maybe intelligent

pinkpound · 6 Dec 2023 at 14:39

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Yes Octopus

Maybe go, maybe intelligent

Her company will pay towards the charging of the vehicle at home woulds we be able to monitor the usage on the Octopus vs normal home usage ?

HungryHippos · 6 Dec 2023 at 14:50

pinkpound said:
Her company will pay towards the charging of the vehicle at home woulds we be able to monitor the usage on the Octopus vs normal home usage ?

Go or Intelligent do let you see off-peak units used, but not split by type (it's just all units used by the house in the cheap off-peak time).

I would say you either want:

1) The company to cover all reported off-peak units as reasonably all/mostly related to EV charge. This will appear on the bill.
2) The car or charger may have a way of recording units used?

Maybe she can check how other people handle this if anyone else has an EV and does this at her workplace?

cu3ed · 6 Dec 2023 at 16:55

I like the way Oil is dropping lol

Neil79 · 6 Dec 2023 at 16:56

The Octopus power ups can be so annoying, even though you click " OPT IN " and it says "ACCEPTED" you never really know if the power ups have been used correctly for weeks, and also it doesn't show up that you've opted in on the main page, just the saving sessions.

Today for example I've used £6 of electric in two hours taking advantage of the free electric, which is credited to your account within two weeks, but you just don't know when!