Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)

casper_uk · 17 Aug 2022 at 17:44

TheVoice said:
Sage resolved, hopefully: I spoke to someone last week on the phone who was raising this as a complaint on my behalf. Didn't hear anything back so did live chat this time on the website, apparently my smart meter readings were being received just fine the whole time, I was just switched over to billing via estimated readings for no apparent reason. Utterly baffling. They've switched it back onto actual usage now.

You were correct the first time, the company is genuinely inept. Honest to god, one of the worst companies I have had to deal with.

LabR@t · 17 Aug 2022 at 18:47

I split from my ex in 2003 and agreed to pay her £50per week I had the lad every Friday and Saturday night and bank holidays etc plus time when I was on holiday.
She just spent it on drink, I changed the standing order to go into her account in a Monday but it didn't stop her. She threated to go to the CSA told her to go ahead, she did and they told me I was paying too much and it went down to £40 per week, lol never forgot the joy I had with that.

She didn't work had house paid full sky package and was out in pub pretty much daily, used to make me sick.

Up shot the boy is now 19 and has he's own flat and she's a crack head

Uther · 17 Aug 2022 at 18:56

Sinbad2000 said:
Now that octopus forecast jobbie makes sense.
This way of doing it makes NO sense though.

That's a strange way of doing it, I just assumed they would take it off that months DD, rather than charging the full DD then doing a refund. Maybe this way is less work for them.

LabR@t · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:01

Electricity Prices in Europe - Who pays the most? [2010 - 2021]

Electricity prices in Europe [list, table & map]. Power prices: data, statistics, charts for energy consumption by household & industry consumers in the EU

strom-report.de

Such disparity with east and west

robj20 · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:03

Sinbad2000 said:
Now that octopus forecast jobbie makes sense.
This way of doing it makes NO sense though.

How are octopus doing it?

GIBURROWS · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:14

LabR@t said:
Electricity Prices in Europe - Who pays the most? [2010 - 2021]

Electricity prices in Europe [list, table & map]. Power prices: data, statistics, charts for energy consumption by household & industry consumers in the EU

strom-report.de

Such disparity with east and west

It seems like we all pay as much as they can charge us before we riot.

LabR@t · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:33

GIBURROWS said:
It seems like we all pay as much as they can charge us before we riot.

It does seem like that. Squeeze as much as you can. Control the masses with poverty, soon there will be stomach for war.

200sols · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:36

LabR@t said:
It does seem like that. Squeeze as much as you can. Control the masses with poverty, soon there will be stomach for war.

No matter how much you say it the UK population is not about to rise up and go to war against the state. We are far too passive for that.

GIBURROWS · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:37

200sols said:
No matter how much you say it the UK population is not about to rise up and go to war against the state. We are far too passive for that.

This might be the turning point.

200sols · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:40

GIBURROWS said:
This might be the turning point.

It won't be. This is an echo chamber of doom on here, you guys keep whipping each other up.

scarps · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:41

Chillr said:
Yeah love to know this too, thinking of just have radiators in livingroom and bedroom and use small halogen leccy heater if needed now and again, wonder if its much of a saving, sorry state of affairs its come to this but present government don't seem to do much about it. Hope is a mild winter.

Where I used to live growing, rented, up we had no radiators at all, just an Rayburn in the kitchen that for 20 years did nothing but give out heat and get cooked on, eventually they did something so it heated the water but no radiators at all.
We used to use one of those gas heaters in the bathroom, might get another one and just turn it on when I have a wash once a week

Zatoichi.uK · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:42

Come Oct/Nov there will be huge unrest. Reality hasn't set in still, but it will. Whether it will amount to much or whether anything is set in place to assuage the public remains to be seen.

LabR@t · 17 Aug 2022 at 19:43

I will rely on wood burner to heat the house this year. CH will be used at weekends in the morning only

Stu999 · 17 Aug 2022 at 20:02

200sols said:
No matter how much you say it the UK population is not about to rise up and go to war against the state. We are far too passive for that.

I will write them a sternly worded email or tweet though!!

Surveyor · 17 Aug 2022 at 20:13

LabR@t said:
I will rely on wood burner to heat the house this year. CH will be used at weekends in the morning only

You gotta save some cash for fillet steak, caviar and fois groix.

LabR@t · 17 Aug 2022 at 20:16

Surveyor said:
You gotta save some cash for fillet steak, caviar and fois groix.

Steak yes, you can keep the other muck.

Uther · 17 Aug 2022 at 20:19

Government 'asleep at the wheel' as Ofgem director quits over energy price cap change

Ofgem recently changed the method it uses to determine the price cap on energy bills and Christine Farnish disagreed with giving suppliers six months instead of 12 to recoup their wholesale energy hedging costs.

news.sky.com

phill9800 · 17 Aug 2022 at 20:23

brightside229 said:
Its called child maintanence but in reality you are paying for the mum to have a better standard of living too, even though most of the time it was her choice to leave the partner or run off with another man that probably didnt work out either

My ex is a midwife or something like it so I'd hope she'd have a good standard but in these times and remembering back, I'm really not so sure but its my daughter that I worry about most.

I'm extremely lucky to be in the position I'm in and I don't take that for granted and I'll never go back to doing what I did for my ex when I met her.. Its surprising sometimes how you can see peoples true colours that way...

Haggisman said:
I seem to remember there being a thread about this in general hardware, and it turned out that the difference in running cost wasnt that much. 500w is 15p/hour at the current cap, so 2 hours/day every day is only going to cost you ~£10/month. Obviously if your play time is into double figures every day then that's going to soon add up, but for us "responsible adults" who sadly only get a few hours gaming a week, it's not worth stressing over

Well the problem is for me is that I do a lot of crunching/folding/mining - not now but the hardware is rarely idling so to speak so its a case of pick the times I can use the rig without worrying and then if I wish to try something that it will eat for breakfast then I'm more than happy

I'm actually building something that will sip power in complete opposite which I think will be interesting to say the least..
The last build I did the case I used could fit my two girls in, this one, not massively small but it will be a bit tight compared to what I'm used to

ultralaser · 17 Aug 2022 at 20:24

Zatoichi.uK said:
Come Oct/Nov there will be huge unrest. Reality hasn't set in still, but it will. Whether it will amount to much or whether anything is set in place to assuage the public remains to be seen.

I don't understand why you think there will be huge unrest. This isn't like the poll tax, it's raw material prices increasing - what would they be protesting against?

Zatoichi.uK · 17 Aug 2022 at 20:26

ultralaser said:
I don't understand why you think there will be huge unrest. This isn't like the poll tax, it's raw material prices increasing - what would they be protesting against?

The fact that they literally cannot pay their bills through no fault of their own.