Legend.It's very difficult to find a sensible alternative these days. Maybe try one from Thailand?
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Over a certain amount of the price cap. Which translates to a unit cost. Absorbing anymore added to that. The other option is bill credit.
That same washing machine allows you to delay start, so you can start early morning and have the load ready for when you get up.
We have a Bosch washing machine - the eco is good, there's also speed and aqua plus. Aqua plus uses more water IIRC.
I was going to see if its going to be cheaper to buy candles in bulk over running electric lights this winter. I'll have one of those holders and carry it round the house with me like in Victorian times.
I have to lol at "we have had it easy for too long"Yes people are going to have to change their habits, or front the cost for things like solar panels etc.
I appreciate how this sounds, but most people can survive and will be fine inside with very little to no heating during winter.
I lived in a flat in Peterborough on my own, that had such poor insulation and electric heating I didn't bother using it.
Yes you could see your own breath inside, but wear warm clothes it was fine.
We have had it too easy for too long, living in western luxury. But globalisation and the internet, now everyone wants a piece of that and there isn't enough to sustain that lifestyle. Yes COVID/Ukraine have expedited this.
I've already resigned myself to being cold this winter, more clothes less (no) heating.Seriously wondering what is the point of the offgem cap? It just goes up and up. I thought it was there to stop us getting ripped off
Seriously going to have to consider shutting the heating down this winter and stocking up on jumpers and thermals. Because a 4k energy bill is just insane.
Add a battery.
If your in the UK they make as much sense as solar.
Right now with pricing going the way it is, battery on Octopus go is probably a better payback than solar.
Eg Im in the process of getting a system now. Getting 10.4kwh of storage is going to come in around £5.5k (i'm getting both so estimating the full install of that individually)
That will allow 10kwh to be stored overnight in the 7.5pence window for usage outside that window. If you didn't have solar you could do that 365 days of the year.
10kwh at 7.5p x 365 days = £273.75
10kwh at 50p (estimate Oct price cap) = £1825
Annual saving £1551.25, simple payback approx 3.5 years.
Petition to change name to dancandlelover?Solid username to post content ratio.
The only specific one is the Tesla powerwall one. (also with Octopus actually)
But I suggest you would balk at the cost of a tesla powerwall, the vast majority of us do.
Its also not as massive a benefit either in isolation without panels.
Something will come, the strategy is demand pricing long term so they need to get more people to suck up the excess supply when its there and be self sufficient or returning to the grid in peak times.
Weren't you talking of building a large outbuilding? That would be an ideal place to put batteries and have a solar array as you could design the weight in.
Its going to change, but right now its a bit of a lottery in regards some things such as getting onto Go. It used to be they never checked EV ownership but with energy prices they seem to have tightened up somewhat.
Discussed the other day. Problem is getting on the Go tariff, as its meant for EVs and you're meant to be able to prove you have one.Interested in this. Who are you quoting for the battery system please or is it a DIY job? Any pointers greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Do not offend the snow flakes Candle with carePetition to change name to dancandlelover?
haha brilliant - but no way, she'd leather me.Enrol on the Andrew Tate domestic harmony course and buy a baseball bat?
Spot the poster with no young children or elderly parents….Yes people are going to have to change their habits, or front the cost for things like solar panels etc.
I appreciate how this sounds, but most people can survive and will be fine inside with very little to no heating during winter.
I lived in a flat in Peterborough on my own, that had such poor insulation and electric heating I didn't bother using it.
Yes you could see your own breath inside, but wear warm clothes it was fine.
We have had it too easy for too long, living in western luxury. But globalisation and the internet, now everyone wants a piece of that and there isn't enough to sustain that lifestyle. Yes COVID/Ukraine have expedited this.