Gas & Electricity

[ganganvince]

Put it back down to what you can afford, cheeky feckers

Struggling to get them to alter it asked them to justify that rate with 14kwh of gas and 2.8k elec as even on new prices that is only £3k but they not getting simple maths

 

[lee_wsm]

Fixed for two years

 

[johnmc]

Can anyone explain how a £2500 cap works? Does that mean a 2 up 2 down could pay the same as a 8 bedroom bathroom mansion in the sticks with a heated pool?

 

[RobMCFC]

Can anyone explain how a £2500 cap works? Does that mean a 2 up 2 down could pay the same as a 8 bedroom bathroom mansion in the sticks with a heated pool?

No. It's pretty useless as a figure - I wish they'd just tell everybody what the unit rates are.

The £2500 is based on using 12,000 kWh of gas and 2,900 kWh of electricity in a year.

So you will pay more or less than that depending on how much you use.

At a rough guess, I'd say that this £2500 is 10p per kWh gas and 36p per kWh electricity.

 

[pride in battle]

Can anyone explain how a £2500 cap works? Does that mean a 2 up 2 down could pay the same as a 8 bedroom bathroom mansion in the sticks with a heated pool?

I was thinking that as well...

 

[M18CTID]

Can anyone explain how a £2500 cap works? Does that mean a 2 up 2 down could pay the same as a 8 bedroom bathroom mansion in the sticks with a heated pool?

No. The £2500 is based on the usage for an average household. The trouble is, most average households will use more so it's misleading for me. The "average" usage is something like 2900 kWh of electricity and 12000 kWh of gas per annum. There's only 2 of us in our house and our latest annual usage - June last year to June this year - was around 2400 kWh for electricity but nearly 15000 kWh for gas. Based on that, we'd be paying something like £3000 per annum with this new announcement, not £2500, so God knows how families with kids are going to get on.

 

[mancityvstoke]

the cap is too confusing........

The analogy the other day was good.

"They fix the price of beer.....but the more you drink the more you pay"

£2,500 cap is still a high unit energy cost and is unaffordable.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Fuck the tories. We are now subsidising the obscene profits of energy companies.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Fuck the tories. We are now subsidising the obscene profits of energy companies.

Not the companies supplying our gas and electricity though.

BP, Shell and the like make the vast majority of their money through exploration.

 

[waspish]

Liz Truss be out on her ear come the next election

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Liz Truss be out on her ear come the next election

It’s got to be nearly Francois’ time to shine.

 

[mancityvstoke]

The Labour and Tory politicians arguing about who failed the most....just fucking sort it out now.

 

[mat]

It’s got to be nearly Francois’ time to shine.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Can anyone explain how a £2500 cap works? Does that mean a 2 up 2 down could pay the same as a 8 bedroom bathroom mansion in the sticks with a heated pool?

No.
You pay for what you use.
The figures quoted are average consumption.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Fixed for two years

You must be livid then if you just did it.

 

[lee_wsm]

You must be livid then if you just did it.

Not me the government fixed the tariff rushed the message as was working haha. I’m on a variable

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Pubs will only have to charge about a tenner a pint to break even for the next 6 months, before closing.

 

[mancityvstoke]

I hope no one fixed at £5,800 a year like I was quoted.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Home insulation programme.

Soon seeing cowboys turning up offering to fuck your loft up and rob anything up there of value.

Govt paid for.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Not the companies supplying our gas and electricity though.

BP, Shell and the like make the vast majority of their money through exploration.

They are making windfall profits because of the wholesale market price where they supply oil or gas to retailers.