Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)

[potatolord]

Yup. Probably worth getting in there quick before everyone else does as well!

I got a few of them pre-covid, due to long-term working from home. My wife also works from home now, so uses hers, too.

It's one of the best things I've ever bought, as my house is old and big and a nightmare to heat.

 

[Name]

Sold my gaming pc and xbox until things improve. Cant afford run em. They'd just be paperweights this winter.

 

[tsinc80697]

Does anyone find it annoying that news outlets only report the increase in £ for the average household? I think knowing that it's going up from 28p/kWh to 52p/kWh far more useful and comparative.

Yup! I have no clue what ours is going up to until I hunt around and find the kWh rate.

 

[jonneymendoza]

2kW heater for a bedroom versus a 30kW boiler for the whole house ?

Yea you're not using 30kw to heat up your room are you...

 

[jonneymendoza]

Going to have to give up gaming - it costs too much to run a graphics card.

Get a steam deck

 

[Curlyriff]

Thought that went to 55p/kwh recently. People had 35p/kwh who fixed a couple of months ago on it.

According to their T&C it still says 35p. Edit if I sign up now and instant switch it is 55p. I guess that worth doing still with the new cap then? As it basically fixes it at 55p

 

[squerble]

Sold my gaming pc and xbox until things improve. Cant afford run em. They'd just be paperweights this winter.

I'm currently considering the same. My machine only pulls 200-250W in-game too, so it's hardly a huge drain. But 4 hours a day makes £190/year on the new 52p/kWh price cap rate.

 

[jonneymendoza]

Yup. Probably worth getting in there quick before everyone else does as well!

Or just let you're gaming pc heat up your room

 

[jonneymendoza]

Just squeezed in my fix with Octopus Go this morning. Fixed for 12 months.
40.13p/kWh day
7.5p/kWh night
37.65p SC

Can these fixed deals be switched over to another property?

We estimate that we may hopefully move to our new place in 2 months time

 

[krooton]

I can't even fix if I wanted to, Ovo don't seem to be giving me any option to do so, and Octopus aren't accepting any new customers.

 

[jonneymendoza]

That's why I said target some additional help at the people that need it the most.

I agree with a lot of what is said here: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...-no-referrals.18948056/page-605#post-35805191

People need to take some personal accountability as well. I don't want to be paying cap pricing either but something has to give.

I have a work colleague who is complaining about the new cap. He told me he runs 4 PC's that are on 24/7 doing different things. Huge disconnect between the reality of the cost and the desire to change.

I hear you but many of us have common sense and use what we need.

And to the guy running 4 pc 24 7. Is he running a server of some sort and is it part of his job /income?

 

[Diagro]

So pleased my mortgage is only £345 pcm after my new 5 year fixed deal kicks in this week

So pleased I don't have a mortgage and own my own house.

 

[Simon]

Yea you're not using 30kw to heat up your room are you...

Remind me the output of the rad, the pipes between boiler and rad and the most efficient way to run a boiler. And stick your ellipsis away

 

[HungryHippos]

I hear you but many of us have common sense and use what we need.

And to the guy running 4 pc 24 7. Is he running a server of some sort and is it part of his job /income?

No the reasons he gave make no sense to me at all, we work in the same team no reason to be running servers.

he's running them because he wants to, but clearly there is a very high cost to having 4 PC's/servers running on your base load.

 

[fez]

Does anyone find it annoying that news outlets only report the increase in £ for the average household? I think knowing that it's going up from 28p/kWh to 52p/kWh far more useful and comparative.

Why is that more useful for you? Genuine question because I don't get any more information from a per unit cost than I do from an average cost. Its just as easy to relate that to my usage.

 

[Haggisman]

This is the best I can get, worth it?

Nope!

Have a look at the tracker - it's still showing capped rates at 55p for electric and 16p for gas

Octopus Tracker

Britains' fairest energy tariff, with dynamic daily pricing and 100% renewable electricity.

octopus.energy

 

[Surveyor]

Can these fixed deals be switched over to another property?

We estimate that we may hopefully move to our new place in 2 months time

Can I keep my cheap fixed energy tariff when I move house?

I'm moving into a new rented property, but am on a two-year contract with my energy provider. Can I bring it with me?

www.thisismoney.co.uk

 

[Russinating]

Why is that more useful for you? Genuine question because I don't get any more information from a per unit cost than I do from an average cost. Its just as easy to relate that to my usage.

Because I don't spend the average amount. The cap also isn't in pounds, so I think that's quite misleading. And your current tariff and all new energy quotes are based on kWh, not pounds.

 

[Haggisman]

Remind me the output of the rad, the pipes between boiler and rad and the most efficient way to run a boiler. And stick your ellipsis away

...that still doesn't change the fact that 2kWh of electric costs over 3 times what 2kWh of gas does...
...unless you are "losing" more than 2/3 of the heat from the boiler then gas will still be cheaper...

I put "losing" in quotes because the heat lost from the pipes is still going into your home, so it's not really lost, it's just not heating the room you happen to be in at the time.

 

[Simon]

Details isn’t it and depends on so much. my electric is half the price of gas

Plus a boiler running a single rad is only going to be 60% efficient at best if it’s kettling