Gas & Electricity

Blue Maverick said:
Like everyone else our price has doubled, we’ve tried to cut back a little but we can afford the increase, fortunately, so we don’t have to change our habits too much but we still are. My big issue is my wife works from home now and gets about £6 a month extra, all good in summer but winter she will want the bloody heating on all the time, whereas if it was just me it wouldn’t be on. Work will be saving a fortune in leccy and gas she should be entitled to more or bugger off back.
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Thankfully we are also lucky in that we can and will be able to afford it but fuck me it’s going crazy.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Like everyone else our price has doubled, we’ve tried to cut back a little but we can afford the increase, fortunately, so we don’t have to change our habits too much but we still are. My big issue is my wife works from home now and gets about £6 a month extra, all good in summer but winter she will want the bloody heating on all the time, whereas if it was just me it wouldn’t be on. Work will be saving a fortune in leccy and gas she should be entitled to more or bugger off back.
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Was it you who had the new boiler fitted same time as me a couple of months ago? If so have you noticed a difference? I've seen a big drop in our usage since we had it fitted, used to take about 3minutes to get proper hot water through the taps, now it's about 30secs and it's red hot, also now got one of those remote controls, so can just fire it up if/when required, once it's warmed through to temp it goes off automatically, instead of us forgetting about it until we start wondering why we're fucking roasting a couple of hours later.

The dd was put up to £244pm for G&E but I've already reduced it to £185 and am still a month in credit, so will be dropping it a bit more soon, obviously conscious that it will rise come October but I can address that then, if I leave it as it is we'll be hundreds in credit.
I reckon the new boiler will pay for itself in a couple of years at this rate.
 
nw42 said:
Was it you who had the new boiler fitted same time as me a couple of months ago? If so have you noticed a difference? I've seen a big drop in our usage since we had it fitted, used to take about 3minutes to get proper hot water through the taps, now it's about 30secs and it's red hot, also now got one of those remote controls, so can just fire it up if/when required, once it's warmed through to temp it goes off automatically, instead of us forgetting about it until we start wondering why we're fucking roasting a couple of hours later.

The dd was put up to £244pm for G&E but I've already reduced it to £185 and am still a month in credit, so will be dropping it a bit more soon, obviously conscious that it will rise come October but I can address that then, if I leave it as it is we'll be hundreds in credit.
I reckon the new boiler will pay for itself in a couple of years at this rate.
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Yes it was, the bath fills up rapidly now, not really had the heating on but when we did it seemed to get hotter quicker. Like you we have a thermostat we can just boost the heating for an hour or set timers. I don’t have a smart meter at the moment that’s been installed in June. I wanted to do the loft insulation but as my back is fucked I can’t get up there, I’m determined to do it before winter sets in so I may pay a couple of lads from work to do it for me, it might cost a few hundred quid but it should save me a lot in the long run.
 
Currently paying £84 a month for gas and electricity fixed till August 22, my dilemma is do I change my tariff now,I’ve been quoted £201 fixed till May 2024, or wait till nearer the time in which time the new tariff will prob be higher, what do you guys think.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Severn Trent PLC on Wednesday reported increases in revenue and profit despite upward pressure on power and chemical costs as non-household consumption returned to pre-pandemic levels.


The Coventry-based water company reported pretax profit of GBP506.2 million in the year ended March 31, up 7.5% against the GBP470.7 million achieved the prior year.
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And they’re still not happy. CEO bonuses, which constitute the vast majority of their total compensation, is almost always dictated by the performance of the stock and revenue/profit growth. You can bet that these companies are still paying millions lobbying the government to remove/relax Ofwat regulatory powers.
 
city2 said:
Currently paying £84 a month for gas and electricity fixed till August 22, my dilemma is do I change my tariff now,I’ve been quoted £201 fixed till May 2024, or wait till nearer the time in which time the new tariff will prob be higher, what do you guys think.
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Before you can appraise the deal you would have to factor in combined usage. Your present payment of £84's presumable from a pricing structure built 21 months ago. A 45% price cap increase is imminant in October and quite unsure if we've even begun to level.

Presently in a two bedroom gaff n paying the Octopus £150. Factor in the ton fifty rate rebate that hasn't yet arrived and the £200 loan promised in October we should be good to go until after crimbo were an increase of 50% will be more than inevitable.

We were discussing fuel poverty today whilst reminicing our distant past. Circa 1980 we were not in fuel poverty persay but rather fuel povertied through lack of available equipment to keep us warm. One front room gas fire for the three bedroom home with no central heating, so we had to use parafin heaters at night. The inside of our single glazed metal windows were always frozen come cock crow.

Regressing two decades previously and featuring more of the same inhumane treatment, except we had to trot outside for a dump and bathe in a sink aka woodentop style. They don't don't know there born today.
 
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city2 said:
Currently paying £84 a month for gas and electricity fixed till August 22, my dilemma is do I change my tariff now,I’ve been quoted £201 fixed till May 2024, or wait till nearer the time in which time the new tariff will prob be higher, what do you guys think.
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It will be lower in the new year.
Don’t fix.
 
Two Gun Bob said:
Before you can appraise the deal you would have to factor in combined usage. Your present payment of £84's presumable from a pricing structure built 21 months ago. A 45% price cap increase is imminant in October and so quite unsure if we've even begun to level.

Presently in a two bedroom gaff with 2 bods n paying the Octopus £150. Factor in the ton fifty rate rebate that hasn't yet arrived and the £200 loan promised in October we should be good to go until after crimbo were an increase of 50% will be more than inevitable.

We were talking fuel poverty today whilst reminicing into our distant past. Circa 1980 we were not in fuel poverty persay but rather fuel povertied through lack of available equipment to keep us both warm. One front room gas fire for the three bedrooms with no central heating, so we had to use 2 parafin heaters for the bedrooms at night. The inside of our single glazed metal windows were always frozen come cock crow.

Regressing two decades previously and featuring more of the same inhumane treatment, except we had to trot outside for a dump and bathe in a sink aka woodentop style. They don't don't know there born today.
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The £150 is paid into your bank if you pay your council tax by direct debit.
Got mine weeks ago.
 
Uncle Wally One Ball said:
Its a fucking game with these twats. That's unbelievable. A select committee should ask them how they can justify that and then do something about it. Neither of those things will happen
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They are run by executive and non executive directors, and everything has to be done a very particular way, to maximise those profits. And if they didn't, they'd either be in trouble with the law, shareholders, or both.

The reality how constraining that is came home to me when the Cheif Execs of one of the major power companies gave an interview last week practically begging the government to implement a windfall tax.

He can't do it himself or he'd be voted out before it happened. But he presumably doesn't want to end up tainted with what will happen eventually, that the media and people will turn on them.

That is what the govt are waiting for. That will satisfy people. It makes them think the govt are doing what they want. Timing that move to perfection means we will be pushed to the brink. The bigger the need, the bigger the story, the bigger the acclaim when they do the inevitable.

That's how to manipulate people to love you, and it's second nature to Boris and co.
 
SSE are not an energy supplier (they sold their retail business to OVO a while ago) they are a distribution network operator and therefore are not governed by the price cap. They own/are responsible for the transportation of electricity from the generator to the meters in their area (mpan).
 
Does that rebate based on council tax band mean that practically everyone in London doesn’t get it? I would have thought they were all band E or above.
 
denislawsbackheel said:
Council paying it, not utility company.
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Yeh that's right mate. A bit council lax up in the sticks, call me a cynic but maybe holding onto tens of thousands of householders £150 rebates makes them a tidy amount in interest and usability.
 
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Gorton_Tubster said:
Something we've done to save money is change our cooking habits. The oven costs a lot to run so we dont use it now, we use the hob, buy quicker cook meals. We also use the microwave since boiling a potato or veg or making a jacket are much less power consuming. Can save hundreds... Forget this bullshit around turning all your little led power lights off. wtf

anyone got other tips?
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Get an Air Fryer. We got ours from Costco for £50. Ideal for doing all sorts of things. Because you are not heating a big space and the temp is high it is taking a quarter of the time to cook stuff that the oven does. Best thing is oven chips which take about 4 minutes from from frozen and are really good.
 
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