OK, I’ll turn off a couple of lamps. Still haven’t put the heating on (it only went on once or twice last year anyway) and I’ll put a jumper on instead.
But how about we switch off retail window lights overnight. We don’t need them, nor do we need brightly lit estate agents, vape shops or nail bars.
You can use 0 and still be fked by the standing charge
This is why the support needed to have some sort of cap, only subsidising the first x units consumed.
Yet we’ve got a PM – from a party so obviously knee deep in Russian money – who purposefully portrayed the unit cap as a yearly total cap, knowing full well it would mean that people use more energy. Funny that.
I desire global warming to be able to ditch the energy companies. I’m looking forward to living in a climate with 18–40°C temperatures.
I’ve switched off all unnecessary appliances and devices. I’ve switched all lights to LED’s to use a fraction of the energy, and I’ve just halved my energy bill by getting an air fryer and not using the gas hob and electric cooker as much, and I’m still being charged about £130 a month.
Granted I’m a software engineer currently working from home since ‘rona, and I have a home cloud server I’m running for the wife and I that is the only real luxurious power consumer, but I can’t shave my bills any smaller without giving up working from home.
Urge? Who needs urging? Everyone I know is cutting back.
I would suspect most people are already doing all they can and have done for a number of years with LEDs and energy efficient appliances.
why dont they ask businesses to turn off those high pressure sodium lights and all them lighting arrays that pollute the night sky?
I need to see where im goin while in a room in my house, im pretty sure tesco supermarket doesnt need to stay illuminated 24/7
You know what would encourage reducing energy use? Letting prices go up.
No chance the public does this, especially after the energy “cap” has lead the middle and upper classes to think they don’t need to change their lifestyle now. People will only cut back when it hits them where it hurts – the wallet. The poorer people are going to be feeling the strain even with the “cap” so they will cut back in order to have costs fit their means. There’s no incentive for the rich, their bills have gone up, they are eating that cost and so will try and make the most of it.
Get ready for power cuts this winter. A gas stove with fuel should be cheap enough. Get some food that’s easy to cook on a gas stove. Buy a few books just in case of long spells. Get a couple of power banks and ensure they’re charged. If you’ve got an electric vehicle think about keeping the batteries more charged (I know some keep the batteries low for longevity). Candles and torches, get them now before they become hard to find, also stock up on batteries.
How? It’s not like we’re mining Bitcoins or burn gas for fun. Basic utilities can’t be reduced.
The same Ofgem that keeps increasing the price cap, while majority of those energy companies are recording record profits?
Maybe if ofgem actually helped to reduce these disgusting energy rises in the first place people might actually use less energy.
I live in a studio apartment in a block of flats.
I do not turn on my heating, I have my water to go on in the immersion tank *only* when it’s cheap on the Economy 10, I turn off all lights, all switches and only have my fridge/freezer running 24/7. The only other electrical equipment that sees regular use is my PC, Kettle and Oven which are only used *after* I get in from work.
My electric bill is still £150 – 200, I literally cannot do anything else.
I’m looking forward to seeing more stars at night. Assume lots of light pollution will be down.
Silver linings eh
In fact, it already seems like there is less light pollution, but still a way to go I reckon
I’ve been tracking how much power my PC uses when remoting into my work PC and it’s ~200w! That’s for 2 monitors and a base unit, AMD 3950x and RTX 3070.
Considering it’s just running 2 browsers and remote desktop, this is way more power than needed. It is a full blown games machine though.
I’ve got an M1 Macbook Pro, which literally sips power in comparison, so I’m swapping to that as my daily going forward, though I find MacOS a bit more cumbersome to work with at times.
A positive side effect of using my PC is that it generates a lot of heat. Saves on heating in winter. Ha!
If the public can just reduce usage to avoid blackouts then there is no need for any investment. That saved money could then be spent paying out dividends to shareholders. A true British success story.
All those jokes people used to make about not putting the heating on because it costs too much became a brutal reality fairly quickly. Put the heating on earlier today, and watched a brand new combi boiler heating 3 radiators cost 30p in 5 minutes.
People will because of energy bills, not out of the goodness of their own hearts. It’s sad that it will come to that but it might just save us from blackouts.
Woke up this morning, took a quick shower, brushed my teeth, got dressed.
Walked down stairs, smart meter tells me I’ve used 70p in electric and 60p in gas.
I’ve spent £1.30 before I’ve even had a brew, and I live alone.
How do they even expect me to do it. My electricity bill is pretty consistent year round. And I don’t have things on that I don’t need. So I’m not sure what they expect me to do.
We already are due to cost. That’s why you bunged us several hundred billion of our own money via energy suppliers, remember?
Christ. Not only is it now prohibitively expensive for anybody under the average wage to turn anything on for any longer than it absoutely needs to be, we have to use them even less than that? Exactly how can you reduce your usage when it’s already as low as it can be?
I’ve got a house with LEDs, efficient appliances (mostly, the oven was here when we moved in), we use an air fryer rather than the oven when we can, we only heat individual rooms via smart TRVs and even then to 19c rather than 21 as we used to. In a house with 11 radiators we only heat 2 at the same time, max.
The only high load appliances we have (so washing machine and the car) go on at night when the grid is producing more than people need, and the electric is cheap. We dry our washing with a dehumidifer rather than the dryer.
Exactly, *specifically*, where do we cut usage from where we are now?
Well I’ve been running an electric space heater outside because energy is so cheap, I suppose I should stop doing that /s
Looking forward to the stories of govt officials attending brightly lit and well heated parties over xmas that we pay for.
Just to add the spit to the slap in the face, I bet Ofgem officials will be there opening doors and turning up the heating to get a “party mood” going.
Enjoy the strippers guys while the rest of us huddle in our damp ridden homes hoping the candle doesn’t go out.
Britains public urge Ofgem to grow a spine and tax the living shit out of the energy companies and suck a fart from the sticky gooch of our arseholes.
I think with the price increases, we’ll all be reducing energy usage.
People are going to push back hard against this. We’re on year 3 of being asked to make cuts and sacrifices and seeing no wins or gains. It’ll be seen as “now they’re coming for our electric & heating?!”
Would not be surprised to see certain people trying to use more to counter this just because they’re pissed off at those in charge.
I would think the now +£500 a month energy bills will be enough of an incentive.
How about urging the government to do something about it?
LOL. I’m reminded of my neighbor who had a wired meter.
Got caught 1 month ago and his meter was replaced.
Topped up £20 and it was gone within 1 day because he had his boiler/electric heater on all day.
Then claimed “the electric company are stealing from me”.
Will this include all of the elitist houses that have extremely high electric usage or is it just aimed at the plebs to sit in the dark with the fridge running only on a tuesday?
Do you really think that the rich are going to reduce energy usage? No, because we will be doing it for them, our reduction is their excuse to use it!
Our local airport have lit up their grass like it’s a bloody rock concert or something. No thought for the little people!!
This is wonderful news. I can’t afford to put the heating on at all. Cut down to two showers a week and make do with a wash at the sink. Eat once or twice a day and barely use any appliances. I can’t wait for it to get even harder. Having physical disability really makes it super easy too.
We were urged to reduce our water usage only a few months ago and so many people responded with “but I pay for my water so I’ll use what I want!” Or “I’ll stop using as much water when they fix all the leaks”.
This will be no different.
That being said, with the cost of energy rising so much I have to imagine many people have already cut back? We’re holding out for as long as possible before we have to put our heating on, the nights are starting to get chilly!
I do agree that businesses should stop leaving the lights and shit on all night.
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Those new information slogans in full:
* Starve for strength!
* Freeze for victory!
OK, I’ll turn off a couple of lamps. Still haven’t put the heating on (it only went on once or twice last year anyway) and I’ll put a jumper on instead.
But how about we switch off retail window lights overnight. We don’t need them, nor do we need brightly lit estate agents, vape shops or nail bars.
You can use 0 and still be fked by the standing charge
This is why the support needed to have some sort of cap, only subsidising the first x units consumed.
Yet we’ve got a PM – from a party so obviously knee deep in Russian money – who purposefully portrayed the unit cap as a yearly total cap, knowing full well it would mean that people use more energy. Funny that.
I desire global warming to be able to ditch the energy companies. I’m looking forward to living in a climate with 18–40°C temperatures.
I’ve switched off all unnecessary appliances and devices. I’ve switched all lights to LED’s to use a fraction of the energy, and I’ve just halved my energy bill by getting an air fryer and not using the gas hob and electric cooker as much, and I’m still being charged about £130 a month.
Granted I’m a software engineer currently working from home since ‘rona, and I have a home cloud server I’m running for the wife and I that is the only real luxurious power consumer, but I can’t shave my bills any smaller without giving up working from home.
Urge? Who needs urging? Everyone I know is cutting back.
I would suspect most people are already doing all they can and have done for a number of years with LEDs and energy efficient appliances.
why dont they ask businesses to turn off those high pressure sodium lights and all them lighting arrays that pollute the night sky?
I need to see where im goin while in a room in my house, im pretty sure tesco supermarket doesnt need to stay illuminated 24/7
You know what would encourage reducing energy use? Letting prices go up.
No chance the public does this, especially after the energy “cap” has lead the middle and upper classes to think they don’t need to change their lifestyle now. People will only cut back when it hits them where it hurts – the wallet. The poorer people are going to be feeling the strain even with the “cap” so they will cut back in order to have costs fit their means. There’s no incentive for the rich, their bills have gone up, they are eating that cost and so will try and make the most of it.
Get ready for power cuts this winter. A gas stove with fuel should be cheap enough. Get some food that’s easy to cook on a gas stove. Buy a few books just in case of long spells. Get a couple of power banks and ensure they’re charged. If you’ve got an electric vehicle think about keeping the batteries more charged (I know some keep the batteries low for longevity). Candles and torches, get them now before they become hard to find, also stock up on batteries.
How? It’s not like we’re mining Bitcoins or burn gas for fun. Basic utilities can’t be reduced.
The same Ofgem that keeps increasing the price cap, while majority of those energy companies are recording record profits?
Maybe if ofgem actually helped to reduce these disgusting energy rises in the first place people might actually use less energy.
I live in a studio apartment in a block of flats.
I do not turn on my heating, I have my water to go on in the immersion tank *only* when it’s cheap on the Economy 10, I turn off all lights, all switches and only have my fridge/freezer running 24/7. The only other electrical equipment that sees regular use is my PC, Kettle and Oven which are only used *after* I get in from work.
My electric bill is still £150 – 200, I literally cannot do anything else.
I’m looking forward to seeing more stars at night. Assume lots of light pollution will be down.
Silver linings eh
In fact, it already seems like there is less light pollution, but still a way to go I reckon
I’ve been tracking how much power my PC uses when remoting into my work PC and it’s ~200w! That’s for 2 monitors and a base unit, AMD 3950x and RTX 3070.
Considering it’s just running 2 browsers and remote desktop, this is way more power than needed. It is a full blown games machine though.
I’ve got an M1 Macbook Pro, which literally sips power in comparison, so I’m swapping to that as my daily going forward, though I find MacOS a bit more cumbersome to work with at times.
A positive side effect of using my PC is that it generates a lot of heat. Saves on heating in winter. Ha!
If the public can just reduce usage to avoid blackouts then there is no need for any investment. That saved money could then be spent paying out dividends to shareholders. A true British success story.
All those jokes people used to make about not putting the heating on because it costs too much became a brutal reality fairly quickly. Put the heating on earlier today, and watched a brand new combi boiler heating 3 radiators cost 30p in 5 minutes.
People will because of energy bills, not out of the goodness of their own hearts. It’s sad that it will come to that but it might just save us from blackouts.
Woke up this morning, took a quick shower, brushed my teeth, got dressed.
Walked down stairs, smart meter tells me I’ve used 70p in electric and 60p in gas.
I’ve spent £1.30 before I’ve even had a brew, and I live alone.
How do they even expect me to do it. My electricity bill is pretty consistent year round. And I don’t have things on that I don’t need. So I’m not sure what they expect me to do.
We already are due to cost. That’s why you bunged us several hundred billion of our own money via energy suppliers, remember?
Christ. Not only is it now prohibitively expensive for anybody under the average wage to turn anything on for any longer than it absoutely needs to be, we have to use them even less than that? Exactly how can you reduce your usage when it’s already as low as it can be?
I’ve got a house with LEDs, efficient appliances (mostly, the oven was here when we moved in), we use an air fryer rather than the oven when we can, we only heat individual rooms via smart TRVs and even then to 19c rather than 21 as we used to. In a house with 11 radiators we only heat 2 at the same time, max.
The only high load appliances we have (so washing machine and the car) go on at night when the grid is producing more than people need, and the electric is cheap. We dry our washing with a dehumidifer rather than the dryer.
Exactly, *specifically*, where do we cut usage from where we are now?
Well I’ve been running an electric space heater outside because energy is so cheap, I suppose I should stop doing that /s
Looking forward to the stories of govt officials attending brightly lit and well heated parties over xmas that we pay for.
Just to add the spit to the slap in the face, I bet Ofgem officials will be there opening doors and turning up the heating to get a “party mood” going.
Enjoy the strippers guys while the rest of us huddle in our damp ridden homes hoping the candle doesn’t go out.
Britains public urge Ofgem to grow a spine and tax the living shit out of the energy companies and suck a fart from the sticky gooch of our arseholes.
I think with the price increases, we’ll all be reducing energy usage.
People are going to push back hard against this. We’re on year 3 of being asked to make cuts and sacrifices and seeing no wins or gains. It’ll be seen as “now they’re coming for our electric & heating?!”
Would not be surprised to see certain people trying to use more to counter this just because they’re pissed off at those in charge.
I would think the now +£500 a month energy bills will be enough of an incentive.
How about urging the government to do something about it?
LOL. I’m reminded of my neighbor who had a wired meter.
Got caught 1 month ago and his meter was replaced.
Topped up £20 and it was gone within 1 day because he had his boiler/electric heater on all day.
Then claimed “the electric company are stealing from me”.
Will this include all of the elitist houses that have extremely high electric usage or is it just aimed at the plebs to sit in the dark with the fridge running only on a tuesday?
Do you really think that the rich are going to reduce energy usage? No, because we will be doing it for them, our reduction is their excuse to use it!
Our local airport have lit up their grass like it’s a bloody rock concert or something. No thought for the little people!!
This is wonderful news. I can’t afford to put the heating on at all. Cut down to two showers a week and make do with a wash at the sink. Eat once or twice a day and barely use any appliances. I can’t wait for it to get even harder. Having physical disability really makes it super easy too.
We were urged to reduce our water usage only a few months ago and so many people responded with “but I pay for my water so I’ll use what I want!” Or “I’ll stop using as much water when they fix all the leaks”.
This will be no different.
That being said, with the cost of energy rising so much I have to imagine many people have already cut back? We’re holding out for as long as possible before we have to put our heating on, the nights are starting to get chilly!
I do agree that businesses should stop leaving the lights and shit on all night.