UK economy will become uncompetitive if we don't get cheaper energy centrally generated. https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/
bigger 10kg machines can be a false economy if the energy use isn't proportionately less, although with the bigger drum, bigger items washed better, if you mix item sizes exploiting a bigger drum small stuff gets tangled though, and washed less efficiently. I don't know what which recommends.
Overnight running too with an appropriate energy tarif would probably save more.
Getting data on the washing machines/appliances power consumption is still a pain with limited data from smart meters/IHD ... I need a Consumer Access Device
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You just need a plug in watt meter, I have a 7kg washing machine and on the 60min cycle at 30 degrees it used 0.481KWh, 40 degrees it used 1.164KWh and 35litres of water according to my water meter.
Do BG not offer a Direct Debit Whole Amount Option like many other suppliers? you usually have to call to go onto it.
I dont understand why anyone pays a set amount per month, pay for your exact usage and you can avoid issues.
Because it's very convenient for budgeting, I pay a fixed amount by direct debit and just periodically check the app to see what my debit/credit and energy use is and adjust my direct debit a little if I feel the need to. I like to keep my monthly discretionary income the same all year round so I know I can afford to maintain my lifestyle.
Problems generally arise only when people don't have a smart meter and can't be bothered to do meter readings.
Honestly biomass seems like a bit of a sham, instead of burning coal we are cutting down forests to burn wood which can sometimes contain more pollutants than coal, the environmental aspect of biomass is questionable, it's based on this life cycle model where they say they'll plant new trees and in 50-100 years they will absorb the CO2 from all the burnt wood, but there are serious questions in the scientific community as to how viable the model is and some of the figures being predicted.
I just realised I wasted my time typing that out because there's another article right underneath that one.
Converting coal plants to biomass could fuel climate crisis, scientists warn
Experts horrified at large-scale forest removal to meet wood pellet demand
www.theguardian.com
Converting coal plants to biomass could fuel climate crisis, scientists warn
Converting coal plants to biomass could fuel climate crisis, scientists warn
Experts horrified at large-scale forest removal to meet wood pellet demand
Plans to shift Europe’s coal plants to burning wood pellets instead could accelerate rather than combat the climate crisis and lay waste to woodland equal to half the size of Germany’s Black Forest a year, according to campaigners.
The climate thinktank Sandbag said the heavily subsidised plans to cut carbon emissions would result in a “staggering” amount of tree cutting, potentially destroying forests faster than they can regrow. Sandbag found that Europe’s planned biomass conversion projects would require 36m tonnes of wood pellets every year, equal to the entire current global wood pellet production. This would require forests covering 2,700 sq km to be cut down annually, the equivalent of half the Black Forest in Germany.
The majority of wood pellets are imported from the US and Canada, “meaning that there’s a huge added environmental cost in transporting the wood from the other side of the Atlantic”, said the report’s author, Charles Moore.
The planned biomass conversions – with Finland, Germany and the Netherlands leading the way – would emit 67m tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, which would be unlikely to be reabsorbed by growing trees over the timescales relevant to meeting the targets set by Paris climate agreement, warned Sandbag.
In return, the forest-hungry power plants would produce less than 2% of the EU’s electricity needs – the same generation capacity built in Europe every year by wind and solar farm developers.
“It’s impossible to believe coal companies when they argue that the switch to burning forests could be good for the climate,” Moore said.
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