Gas & Electricity

[jrb]

So far this week. Always a day behind until the readings and costs are updated.

Mrs had the heating on for the best part of this evening, so it will be higher tomorrow when today’s readings and costs are added.

Note the 6pm spike, almost the same everyday. That is when the incentive and reward to cut back on energy usage at that peak time of the evening is being brought in. Also the flat electricity line between 12 and 6pm. Almost everything is turned off in the house.

Hoping to be between £20-£25 this week. Certainly under £25.

Used the Air Fryer for the last 2 days instead of the oven. Getting used to it. Food tastes pretty much the same. Cooked faster and cheaper.

 

[Bill Walker]

So far this week. Always a day behind until the readings and costs are updated.

Mrs had the heating on for the best part of this evening, so it will be higher tomorrow when today’s readings and costs are added.

Note the 6pm spike, almost the same everyday. That is when the incentive and reward to cut back on energy usage at that peak time of the evening is being brought in. Also the flat electricity line between 12 and 6pm. Almost everything is turned off in the house.

Hoping to be between £20-£25 this week. Certainly under £25.

Used the Air Fryer for the last 2 days instead of the oven. Getting used to it. Food tastes pretty much the same. Cooked faster and cheaper.
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That's cheap !!
What's everyone moaning about ? :)

 

[marco]

this is your freind

this is your enemy

I love my log burner
my log burner loves me
she feeds me heat
which is free from the tree
when it gets chilly
i light my fire
i have no direct debit
which goes higher and higher
outside temp is -9
sat here in my shorts i feel just fine

 

[tony coleman]

We opted to change to SMART METERS in September.. new meters were installed then were told a signal could not br reached and the smart little gadget which shows prices was not left with us. Since then we've only had cost of electricity from them each month since. Numerous emails to them . Nothing. Finally got through to some on the phone who didn't sound remotely interested and said they would sort.it.... still nothing done. We are currently over £1500 in credit. I've decided EON NEXT are a bunch of cunts.

 

[MikeF]

Getting a smart meter fitted next Tuesday. Be interested to see my usage and how it compares to their projections as they’ve already been way off but that’s cos I’ve been far more frugal than usual. Think we as a nation have got used to walking round with T-shirts n shorts in the house. Now I layer up. One extreme to the other!!

 

[jrb]

this is your freind
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this is your enemy
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I love my log burner
my log burner loves me
she feeds me heat
which is free from the tree
when it gets chilly
i light my fire
i have no direct debit
which goes higher and higher
outside temp is -9
sat here in my shorts i feel just fine

This is you £2000-£3000 friend.

Thought about it, but I can’t justify the cost and the hassle of finding wood, drying out, etc.

My mate has got one and his double Living/dinning room is warm whenever I go around.

 

[jrb]

That's cheap !!
What's everyone moaning about ? :)

It is, but I’ve only got the rad on in the living room. And I’m pretty much on and off straightaway with every light in the house. When I’m sat in the living room the heating is on just in there, one lamp/bulb is on in there, and the TV and internet is on. That’s it’s. It’s like living in the dark ages throughout the rest of the house. Pretty sad really in 2022.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

This is you £2000-£3000 friend.

Thought about it, but I can’t justify the cost and the hassle of finding wood, drying out, etc.

My mate has got one and his double Living/dinning room is warm whenever I go around.

I have one.
It heats half way up the stairs and no further in an open plan lounge.

 

[marco]

I have one.
It heats half way up the stairs and no further in an open plan lounge.

yes the same as mine,then i had this idea how can i extract some of the heat from the lounge to the bedroom above i put a bathroom extractor vent in the ceiling some flexable ducting and now the bedroom gets warm

 

[ganganvince]

Had 2 emails from OVO energy today first saying my smart meter isn't sending readings and asking me to send in manual ones the second saying my dd of £280 isn't enough and asking to raise to £305 if they aren't getting readings how do they know?
3rd on just arrived £311 now.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Little experiment tonight as house is getting cold now, once the house is upto temperature every half hour the heating kicks in to get back to 20 degrees after dropping to around 19.6. We had the heating on an extra 2 and half hours and it cost us about £1. So today we had the heating on for 1 hour this morning it cost, £1.20, a bath cost us about 80p and the heating on tonight for 3 1/4 hours cost £2.34, add in standing charge of 28p.
Total cost today £4.62, with no cooking (chippy tea) you could add 50p for that normally. So I reckoned on £5 a day budget if needed, but we have a lot of credit so on those really cold days it could be on longer if needed.
Trouble is my wife works from home and she as we all know women gets cold unless is 40 degrees! I feel like fucking Scrooge can I put another coal on the fire, it seems though it would be more economical in the colder days to have the heating on for longer periods than intermittent bursts as the house will never get warm before it cuts out.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

​

You'll earn 1800 OctoPoints – that's £2.25 worth – for every unit of electricity you cut down between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM on 15th November. Opt in now to save power and earn rewards in this Session. You'll go into a draw to win an extra 400,000 OctoPoints – that's £500 worth! – just for opting in. ​ Important: you need to opt in before the Session starts if you want to earn rewards. We've got an extra challenge for your first Session: cut down even more power to earn our Super Saver Bonus. The top 10% of Savers in this Session (i.e those who reduce the highest % of their normal power use) will each earn an extra 1,000 bonus OctoPoints – worth £1.25. What do I do in the Saving Session? Cut down your electricity use between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM on 15th November. You'll earn 1800 OctoPoints for every kilowatt hour of electricity you don't use compared to what you normally use. Don't worry about sending us readings: your smart meter will do this for you. How do you calculate what I normally use? We look at your smart meter readings to find out how much electricity you typically used at the same time of day over the previous 10 days (excluding days when there's been a Saving Session). Find out more in our FAQs. How much are OctoPoints worth? If you manage to save a kilowatt hour of electricity in this Session, you'll earn 1800 OctoPoints - that's £2.25. You can turn your OctoPoints into account credit online at any time. When will I get my OctoPoints? In the few days after a Session, we'll use your smart meter readings to work out how much power you saved. You'll be able to see how you did on your Saving Sessions dashboard, and any earnings will be added to your OctoPoints page within two weeks. Love & power, Pete Miller Head of Customer Experience Octopus Energy

So far Gunny you've earned 1288 OctoPoints (or £1.61) over 1 Saving Session ​

Last updated at 6:00pm 15/11/22

You saved 92% in the last session​

Amazing effort, well done!
You cut down by 92%

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We were sheduled to earn 1800 OctoPoints – or £2.25 worth – for every unit of electricity cut down between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM. As we only saved 2/3 a unit we earned 1288 octoPoints equating to £1.61, plus 2/3 of 0.33 a k/w savings at 0.22p @circa £1.83.

If their "grid reduction scheme" was trialed five days a week it may have been feasable married alongside the kilo cals burned on one hour wobbles. As Machiavelli once said the end does not justify the means and we would have been far more motovated had the rewards been OctoPints : /

 

[ganganvince]

Little experiment tonight as house is getting cold now, once the house is upto temperature every half hour the heating kicks in to get back to 20 degrees after dropping to around 19.6. We had the heating on an extra 2 and half hours and it cost us about £1. So today we had the heating on for 1 hour this morning it cost, £1.20, a bath cost us about 80p and the heating on tonight for 3 1/4 hours cost £2.34, add in standing charge of 28p.
Total cost today £4.62, with no cooking (chippy tea) you could add 50p for that normally. So I reckoned on £5 a day budget if needed, but we have a lot of credit so on those really cold days it could be on longer if needed.
Trouble is my wife works from home and she as we all know women gets cold unless is 40 degrees! I feel like fucking Scrooge can I put another coal on the fire, it seems though it would be more economical in the colder days to have the heating on for longer periods than intermittent bursts as the house will never get warm before it cuts out.

Ours is a big older house even with minimal heating on struggling to stay below £10 a day.

 

[trumpton]

Little experiment tonight as house is getting cold now, once the house is upto temperature every half hour the heating kicks in to get back to 20 degrees after dropping to around 19.6. We had the heating on an extra 2 and half hours and it cost us about £1. So today we had the heating on for 1 hour this morning it cost, £1.20, a bath cost us about 80p and the heating on tonight for 3 1/4 hours cost £2.34, add in standing charge of 28p.
Total cost today £4.62, with no cooking (chippy tea) you could add 50p for that normally. So I reckoned on £5 a day budget if needed, but we have a lot of credit so on those really cold days it could be on longer if needed.
Trouble is my wife works from home and she as we all know women gets cold unless is 40 degrees! I feel like fucking Scrooge can I put another coal on the fire, it seems though it would be more economical in the colder days to have the heating on for longer periods than intermittent bursts as the house will never get warm before it cuts out.

80p for a bath. How fucking big is it!

 

[denislawsbackheel]

80p
It costs more to fill my sink!

 

[Blue Maverick]

80p for a bath. How fucking big is it!

That’s not even halfway pal.
oh and EDF are cunts they are now saying my electric smart meter won’t work because of some power thing so I need to contact my provider?? Whoever the fuck that is as it’s to do with the electric before the meter, how the fuck they know that I don’t know but they installed the bastard why should I be running round trying to get it fixed. They can fuck off im not doing anything it’s back to manual readings, complete waste of time.

 

[kaz7]

Put my readings in today , much the same as every month, last couple months my dd has been £34 for both but today they have wacked it up to £81 , dont understand , i am £135 in credit still , going to ring them tomorrow , scared my end of fix next month will put it up more , cunts

Finally found more info on the edf page , from jan it will be £97 a month , i have added a bit more credit so can plead with them tomorrow on the £81, wish me luck

 

[AKA 55 year old teenager]

Have put.my heating on for an hour this evening and it cost me £1. Is that about what everyone else is paying? Seems expensive to me.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Have put.my heating on for an hour this evening and it cost me £1. Is that about what everyone else is paying? Seems expensive to me.

Seems very expensive mate. Maybe check the flow rate temp on your boiler settings, how many radiators is that?
For 6 rads on a two bedroom gaff we use around 35p on a 30 minute constant burn set at a 60c flow rate.
The initial fire up to temperature uses the most then after that it becomes negligable.

 

[AKA 55 year old teenager]

Seems very expensive mate. Maybe check the flow rate temp on your boiler settings, how many radiators is that?
For 6 rads on a two bedroom gaff we use around 35p on a 30 minute constant burn set at a 60c flow rate.
The initial fire up to temperature uses the most then after that it becomes negligable.

Not sure what the flow rate is. Have just checked the rad temp it was set at 75. Have now set it to 60. Will check the cost again next time I put the heating on.