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chrcoluk said:
I think both of those companies have wealthy clients, investors may want anonymity.

So that doesnt disprove only a very small minority is owned by pension funds.

But I do agree the tiny bit been owned by pension funds I havent seen proof of either. I suppose the pension funds bit came up because Truss said in an interview one of the reasons for not windfalling was to protect pension funds.
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They'll have wealthy clients and plenty of 'normal' clients as well, how many on this forum have shares in vanguards index trackers for example... a lot judging by the stock market thread.

Nearly everyone starting a pension now and in recent years is on a DC scheme, your pension is linked directly to the stock market.
 
Greebo said:
Thats mental. Our baseline usage is around 0.125kWh per hour and when up and about that becomes around 0.25kwh. We hit 3kW usage by 10.30am in the morning use around 10kW per day in total. There are only 2 of us and I thought we were quite frugal with our energy consumption. Hot water is on an oil combi boiler.
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Mental as in high or low?

Looking at the last few weeks usage, we're averaging (per day):

~0.66m3/day, or ~7.4kWh for gas
~8.3kWh electric.

That's with heating off, cooking every day on gas hob, TV on for several hours in the evening, my PC on 8-4 during the week and maybe a few hours in the evening.

Overnight idle load is about the same as yours, ~120w
 
Puzzled said:
It will be over by Christmas....

Hopefully you are right but history teaches us to be cautious.

Plus even if they get rid of Putin, you still need his replacement to be friendly to the west and respect Ukraine before any talks of dropping sanctions.
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I think it's too optimistic it'll be done by Christmas unless there's an internal coup. But I agree with the rest of your post
 
ci_newman said:
We use an average of 5-7kWh gas per day during the summer for hot water and gas hob
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Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
6-8kw a day for us, thats 1-2 showers, most days will be 2 plus other bits such as soaking a few pots, washing hands etc

I can see when the other half has a bath as it jumps 3-4kw
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Dangerous Dave said:
Heating our 210l cylinder of hot water when empty is 10-11kWh we don't always empty it so the average is 8kWh a day over the month also with a gas cooker. To reduce that my wife would have to stop having baths not quite at that gas price yet !

Insulate all your pipes to and from the boiler to the cylinder also insulate as much of your hot water pipe runs as possible all the little reductions in waste heat in the summer add up was never worth it at 2p a gas unit but at 10p will make a difference. We have hot water circulation so all our hot water pipes are insulated even with the pump off the hot water out the tap is still hot for hours. A quick google says a 1 meter of 22mm Cooper losses 40-60watts a meter depending on temp differece so in the summer when this heat loss isn't helping heat the house is wasted energy.
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Ok so we're a bit higher, forgot to say we use a gas hob also.
Our cylinder is a new (2019) Kingspan one so thermally efficient, and all the exposed pipes are insulated.
I think I'll try reducing the flow rate to the shower which is the main use of hot water.
 
danlightbulb said:
I do not fancy eating your homemade chilli. :eek:
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Why not? You cook one large portion and separate out into 4 tubs and freeze. You then reheat the chilli when you want. All 4 tubs will be as good as each other?

Batch cooming and freezing is fine. Don't microwave it to reheat. Use a saucepan instead. Obviously don't keep it in the freezer for months on end.
 
Curlyriff said:
Why not? You cook one large portion and separate out into 4 tubs and freeze. You then reheat the chilli when you want. All 4 tubs will be as good as each other?

Batch cooming and freezing is fine. Don't microwave it to reheat. Use a saucepan instead. Obviously don't keep it in the freezer for months on end.
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I think he was playing on what was actually typed rather than what was meant to be typed. Plus applying even a little artistic interpretation to the spelling of the misused word.

It was typed coming instead of cooking.
The "extra special" ingredient I am told is a little salty ;)
 
- 6.45kWh a day average electric (that with pond pump with UV running 24/7). Lower days are 3.5kWh when everyone at work and weekend days with 3 adults and 2 children on 3 PCs with 2 TVs generally going is more like 11-12kWh.
- 7.64kWh a day average for gas.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
I think he was playing on what was actually typed rather than what was meant to be typed. Plus applying even a little artistic interpretation to the spelling of the misused word.

It was typed coming instead of cooking.
The "extra special" ingredient I am told is a little salty ;)
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Ah I see. I hadnt even read that word lol. Just auto read cooking still on the little old phone ha.
 
Haggisman said:
Mental as in high or low?

Looking at the last few weeks usage, we're averaging:

~0.66m3/day, or ~7.4kWh for gas
~8.3kWh electric.

That's with heating off, cooking every day on gas hob, TV on for several hours in the evening, my PC on 8-4 during the week and maybe a few hours in the evening.

Overnight idle load is about the same as yours, ~120w
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I meant low.
 
I think I need to look at our electric consumption seeing all these people using 6/7Kwh per day electric. There are only 2 of us and yet we still use around 9-10kw per day. Okay my other half works from home so PC will be on for 8 hours plus then mine will be on an hour or so on an evening.

All our lights are LED.

TV is a new OLED so shouldn't use much.

Washing machine, dishwasher and dryer will be our three worst culprits along with electric oven but thats not used every day as we use the air fryer when we can.
 
can always give the children an energy budget they can distribute between shower/games-pc/bedroom heating

bulk cooking lol - just let stuff from freezer thaw at room temperature, or even better in the fridge ...... you do need to plan menu in advance

Windfalls Hmmh so not using windfalls makes the sale of Bulb easier (they'll be queueing up) the burden of buying future energy on unhedged markets is no longer a liability/negotiation dilemma, as the government/tax-payer is just paying the difference
 
jpaul said:
can always give the children an energy budget they can distribute between shower/games-pc/bedroom heating

bulk cooking lol - just let stuff from freezer thaw at room temperature, or even better in the fridge ...... you do need to plan menu in advance

Windfalls Hmmh so not using windfalls makes the sale of Bulb easier (they'll be queueing up) the burden of buying future energy on unhedged markets is no longer a liability/negotiation dilemma, as the government/tax-payer is just paying the difference
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We do loads, obviously need the freezer space but we always have some fish pies, cottage pies, curry, Bolognese sauce, that sort of thing.
Then like you say take out out and put it on the fridge the night before and it just needs warming back up. Saves time overall as well.
 
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