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Rebate arrived today from Scottish Power, just over a week after DD.
Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)
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It mentions "electricity generators not having enough gas" so it'll be electricity. Domestic gas usage is likely only a fraction of national usage so I'd imagine supply to housing will be fine - it just won't be able to be used because the electricity to power the heating systems isn't there
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Exactly. The semi help or partial support or whatever schemes people dream up will end up a nightmare.
These same companies that would need to enforce a set of caps etc barely deliver the basics of what they are supposed to do now.
They would also need to add potentially significant numbers of staff, which we would all end up paying for in order to deal with a load more admin.
The one thing they do manage to do reasonably well, historically, is more tariffs and that would be where I think it would make sense to go if they don't do what to me is the most logical option of some more fixed simple payments.
Should this persist past when the existing scheme ends then a menu of options that can be selected from makes more sense to me.
So eg £x per bill account, £x per house via council already proven to have pretty simple mechanisms to be able to do.
I would also do them based on shorter periods so 1) more reactive to market pricing, 2) more reactive to actual costs at that time (ie households costs based on temp mainly)
The whole issue with trying to selectively help the "needy" is that it ignores many other things, some already alluded to in this thread.
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It mentions "electricity generators not having enough gas" so it'll be electricity. Domestic gas usage is likely only a fraction of national usage so I'd imagine supply to housing will be fine - it just won't be able to be used because the electricity to power the heating systems isn't there
Will huddle round my gas oven then - with the door open will easily heat my kitchen lol..
What sucks right now is in April the £2500 Energy price Guarantee is being scrapped and will be increased to £4000+ on average. Thats 80% across the board. That would put my DD up to around £250+ i can only just afford paying the current £144 up from £60 this time last year. If it increases to that amount many more people won't be able to afford it. People are struggling already so lets add more cost to the public so the low income earners are hit even harder. lets not even mention the mini budget u-turn and 1% tax reduction u-turn also 
Just remember the current scheme ends, to be replaced with another. It's not just ending for everyone.What sucks right now is in April the £2500 Energy price Guarantee is being scrapped and will be increased to £4000+ on average. Thats 80% across the board. That would put my DD up to around £250+ i can only just afford paying the current £144 up from £60 this time last year. If it increases to that amount many more people won't be able to afford it. People are struggling already so lets add more cost to the public so the low income earners are hit even harder. lets not even mention the mini budget u-turn and 1% tax reduction u-turn also
I understand that but the issue will be an increase on what we currently pay. Not like people can afford it right now yet the increase is coming.
And the rest.
I don’t think that’s for certain. The current pricing of electricity is based on gas prices which the majority of our electricity does not come from. Other sources are currently many times lower in price but we have to pay the same rate we do for gas. This is what I would expect they would change. We have seen this happen already in other countries.
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Still not received a refund of credit and now its even more. "Your account is currently £746.00 in credit." 
My old gas oven wouldn't light without electricity. Maybe yours is different.
I am getting ready to do another 12 month fix on my gas account and the cheapest rate offered by one of the gas companies here is currently $1.66 per therm, which is about about £0.05 per kWh. My fix this time last year was $1.16 per therm, so $1.66 represents a 43% increase.
Similar to mine. I’ve switched off any payments for a while.Still not received a refund of credit and now its even more. "Your account is currently £746.00 in credit."
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Similar to mine. I’ve switched off any payments for a while.
How are you switching off payments? Can you do that with your supplier?
They are pretty hopeless in providing the reimbursement, so far.
I’m with octopus. I did that in the app. I can override the direct debit. It’s set to 0.
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nice problem to have!Still not received a refund of credit and now its even more. "Your account is currently £746.00 in credit."
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yeah, current provider just doesnt offer much in the way of apps(its just a port of their website) and the website is limited.
We dont need the money but I would just rather have it than them.
Never tried TBH but the hob will def light with a match lol..
It might give them time to implement a better plan to support those who need it without placing a massive burden on the state coupled with a junk pound and completely wrecked public services.
The country can't just keep lumping more onto the public debt along with wrecking our currency.
I’m the same but it’s due to being billed every 6 months. If I stop payments now, come January when billed I’ll be in debit.Still not received a refund of credit and now its even more. "Your account is currently £746.00 in credit."