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Getting to the point where you will have to remortgage your house to pay for a electric blanket.
Petrol consumption/kWh seems quite high on these small generators. Can you connect them to your mains to run lights, sockets, central heating etc?
Even more reason to install a powerwall it seems...
Can you connect them to your mains to run lights, sockets, central heating etc?
We are getting solar installed at the end of this month, but unless you get something like a Tesla powerwall or similar system, frustratingly if you get a power cut you still loose all power.
@Macky - Martin Lewis' best guess advice is to fix if the tariff is not more than 30% over the Variable
That Elec is 37% higher and Gas 34% higher. But like you say, no-one has a crystal ball so it's all finger in the air time atm :-/
This should be a much bigger story and people should be outraged. 100% of that should go to the Treasury.
A good idea ....when you have a smart meter installed, get the installer to fit a isolating switch/cutoff between the smart meter and your consumer unit.You can but you need to careful to isolate them from the incoming supply, not particularly easy.
I'm not sure if the law and regulations have changed in the UK yet but I think the auto-switching of the Tesla powerwall is prohibited here. Shame. Systems should be put and place and laws changed to allow people to run on battery in the event of a supply loss.
This still need a battery system or some sort of generator for solar to work during a blackout.A good idea ....when you have a smart meter installed, get the installer to fit a isolating switch/cutoff between the smart meter and your consumer unit.
We did this using the pretence that we wanted to upgrade the consumer unit in the future.
Now that you can isolate the grid you have options open to power your house alternately.
I'm with them too - my fix finishes on the 1st June but looking at my account they have moved me to the variable rate today with no way to switch to fixed so dont leave it to the last minute to choose. I'm not fixing as I dont like the idea of paying over the odds now for a fairly small saving in October onwards - might be short sighted but meh..What's the best advice currently for renewal, crystal ball not withstanding? Ours is up in June with EonNext. We're low usage but this renewal is going to be twice as expensive as what we're paying currently for the same usage for the fixed tariff.
Variable:
Daily standing charge:
Elec: 48.13p
Gas: 27.22p
Unit rate:
Elec: 27.86p/kwh
Gas: 7.37p/kwh
12 month fixed:
Daily standing charge:
Elec: 48.13p
Gas: 27.22p
Unit rate:
Elec: 38.22p/kwh
Gas: 9.87p/kwh
Thanks
another article corroborating earlier post https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/snp-backs-drastic-cuts-state-funding-royal-family-96442Profits from the crown estate are donated to the treasury under a tradition started by George III.
This is a non story
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but more and more of future demand will have to be met either by increased imports from continental Europe or increased reliance on imported LNG. In both cases, there is sufficient infrastructure capacity to enable this; the uncertainties lie in relation to the UK’s future trading relationship with the EU’s IEM post-Brexit and future developments in the global LNG market. These uncertainties will be reflected in the price that consumers have to pay to attract gas to the UK. As noted in our previous work (Bradshaw et al. 2014) the UK is effectively globalising its gas security and will be increasingly exposed to developments in the global LNG market
another article corroborating earlier post https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/snp-backs-drastic-cuts-state-funding-royal-family-96442j
they are profiting from windfarms and there seems inadequate data to confirm if the rent they received is a function of revenue of generation company,The argument the the royal family is profiting of high energy prices is BS.