I get free gas somehow, 3 years living here and no one has knocked the door. Keeping my mouth shut.
It seems poverty is the an efficient way to solve global warming.
To be fair November has been pretty warm. Lit a couple of fires in October, not needed to do so since.
Someone I know was contacted by EDF as his usage for gas was down 93 % on last year
The bordered on accusing him of tampering with the meter. They then attempted to increase his DD based on last years use.
He is currently in a dispute with them and told them he won’t be turning on his heating until the dog bowl freezes.
If ofgem limit the amount a typical household uses, then a typical household uses 10% less. Does this mean our bills rise to just as much as though we hadn’t limited consumption?
I’ve been reading our meters weekly for the last 18 months and tracking it in a spreadsheet. I’ve installed smart lighting and switches. I have all sorts of automation to reduce energy consumption by switching stuff off automatically.
I’ve managed to cut our use by about 20%. It’s been a massive pain in the arse to set it up though.
Bonus is that virtually everything is voice controlled now though!
Yea, we’re sodding freezing! My tootsies may just fall off before this winter is over.
Prices go up to an all time high
People use less
Energy bosses: Whaaaaaaat!
I have a disability that causes me a lot of pain when it’s cold so i’m finding it hard to balance staying warm and pain free or having a a huge bill to pay. I had one really rough day and caved for heating but ended up costing over £10. that’s not sustainable especially with winter coming up. At the minute i’m managing by wearing many layers and sitting under a duvet but it’s still not great for my pain
My bedroom is currently the only room with the heating on. That’s an 75% reduction on last year, and we plan to kill that off once we’ve got an electric blanket set up. We’ve swapped out our old fan assisted oven for an air fryer, and our lights are automated. Not sure there’s much left to cut to be honest and bills are still pretty comparable to last year.
Nowhere in the article do I see any reference to the fact that I’m pretty sure a large part of that reduction is down to people being too scared to put on heating or cook meals.
If it was all more efficient appliances etc, great, but I honestly worry that a lot of that reduction is unsafe living conditions because of poverty.
Heating only goes on for hot water. Small ceramic heaters only go on in occupied rooms, and just to take the edge off (unless doing WFH), and there’s no lights on in unoccupied areas.
I’m £300 in credit with leccy, roughly even on gas, but we’ll see where we are in six months since I pay DD …
People are using less energy and the companies are making record profits. Weird that. It’s almost like they don’t need to charge as much as they are. Getting former executives into top jobs at OFGEM must be working out for them. Corruption from top to bottom
This is basically supply and demand. We can afford the high bills but I decided instead to save money, put a jumper on and keep the house at 17C rather than 20C.
watch them increase the price cause thyre not selling enough
Suppliers are now going to claim that they have to further increase costs to make up for the losses……
They have had their arm twisted due to high prices. A mild autumn explains a small part of it but let’s not pretend this is due to a desire to be greener or anything like that.
Guess they have to raise their prices by 20% to compensate
cunts
We’re down nearly 50% on gas, and 30% on electric, and still paying substantially more on our bill. It’s so disheartening
OVO contacted us saying that they want to send an engineer out as we use 2/3 less electric and use 1/5 the gas a house likes our should use. Even though we are on smart meters. So since this (June 2022) I have kept daily records of our meter readings using the phone with a GPS location tag and manually input these figures into their app every morning at 8am. They didn’t send an engineer over – we said its fine.
I cancelled the DD and manually transfer £200 pm over to our account. We don’t use all of it and have a good buffer that will see us through thr winter.
It’s a pain but when it goes south (and I expect it will) we can say to the ombudsman that we have daily readings, always over paid and have a considerable credit and invited their staff on site. Preparing for the worst.
Our energy use is honestly so much lower than this time last year (kept the records). It’s a good thing. We just are careful.
Grant Shapps is the most useless bastard in England, if anything he will make the situation worse
At this moment in time, me and my room mate have turned off the heating for downstairs and just staying to our rooms. So out of six radiators only three are active.
It’s strange to go from a lovely heated bedroom to a cold kitchen but it has reduced our bills.
It’s been quite a mild November. It’s probably a lot down to that
*”Hi Mr Ofgem, this is the energy companies here. Prices are wild for our customers so they won’t use as much energy as they are choosing to heat or eat, so can you do us a favour and lift the price cap so we can rinse these mugs even more?”*
*”Hi energy providers, give us 5 mins and we will put it up. Got to keep your profits in the billions!”*
Unsurprisingly, can’t believe how far backwards the country has gone.
Energy firms to shareholders: “guys I have a cunning plan.” What’s that? “We’ll increase the daily standing charge”
Not sure how tbh now that winters truly come I’ve had the heating on plenty 😅
oh no…. they are losing money, i guess they will have to hike the prices againi!
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I get free gas somehow, 3 years living here and no one has knocked the door. Keeping my mouth shut.
It seems poverty is the an efficient way to solve global warming.
To be fair November has been pretty warm. Lit a couple of fires in October, not needed to do so since.
Someone I know was contacted by EDF as his usage for gas was down 93 % on last year
The bordered on accusing him of tampering with the meter. They then attempted to increase his DD based on last years use.
He is currently in a dispute with them and told them he won’t be turning on his heating until the dog bowl freezes.
If ofgem limit the amount a typical household uses, then a typical household uses 10% less. Does this mean our bills rise to just as much as though we hadn’t limited consumption?
I’ve been reading our meters weekly for the last 18 months and tracking it in a spreadsheet. I’ve installed smart lighting and switches. I have all sorts of automation to reduce energy consumption by switching stuff off automatically.
I’ve managed to cut our use by about 20%. It’s been a massive pain in the arse to set it up though.
Bonus is that virtually everything is voice controlled now though!
Yea, we’re sodding freezing! My tootsies may just fall off before this winter is over.
Prices go up to an all time high
People use less
Energy bosses: Whaaaaaaat!
I have a disability that causes me a lot of pain when it’s cold so i’m finding it hard to balance staying warm and pain free or having a a huge bill to pay. I had one really rough day and caved for heating but ended up costing over £10. that’s not sustainable especially with winter coming up. At the minute i’m managing by wearing many layers and sitting under a duvet but it’s still not great for my pain
My bedroom is currently the only room with the heating on. That’s an 75% reduction on last year, and we plan to kill that off once we’ve got an electric blanket set up. We’ve swapped out our old fan assisted oven for an air fryer, and our lights are automated. Not sure there’s much left to cut to be honest and bills are still pretty comparable to last year.
Nowhere in the article do I see any reference to the fact that I’m pretty sure a large part of that reduction is down to people being too scared to put on heating or cook meals.
If it was all more efficient appliances etc, great, but I honestly worry that a lot of that reduction is unsafe living conditions because of poverty.
Heating only goes on for hot water. Small ceramic heaters only go on in occupied rooms, and just to take the edge off (unless doing WFH), and there’s no lights on in unoccupied areas.
I’m £300 in credit with leccy, roughly even on gas, but we’ll see where we are in six months since I pay DD …
People are using less energy and the companies are making record profits. Weird that. It’s almost like they don’t need to charge as much as they are. Getting former executives into top jobs at OFGEM must be working out for them. Corruption from top to bottom
This is basically supply and demand. We can afford the high bills but I decided instead to save money, put a jumper on and keep the house at 17C rather than 20C.
watch them increase the price cause thyre not selling enough
Suppliers are now going to claim that they have to further increase costs to make up for the losses……
They have had their arm twisted due to high prices. A mild autumn explains a small part of it but let’s not pretend this is due to a desire to be greener or anything like that.
Guess they have to raise their prices by 20% to compensate
cunts
We’re down nearly 50% on gas, and 30% on electric, and still paying substantially more on our bill. It’s so disheartening
OVO contacted us saying that they want to send an engineer out as we use 2/3 less electric and use 1/5 the gas a house likes our should use. Even though we are on smart meters. So since this (June 2022) I have kept daily records of our meter readings using the phone with a GPS location tag and manually input these figures into their app every morning at 8am. They didn’t send an engineer over – we said its fine.
I cancelled the DD and manually transfer £200 pm over to our account. We don’t use all of it and have a good buffer that will see us through thr winter.
It’s a pain but when it goes south (and I expect it will) we can say to the ombudsman that we have daily readings, always over paid and have a considerable credit and invited their staff on site. Preparing for the worst.
Our energy use is honestly so much lower than this time last year (kept the records). It’s a good thing. We just are careful.
Grant Shapps is the most useless bastard in England, if anything he will make the situation worse
At this moment in time, me and my room mate have turned off the heating for downstairs and just staying to our rooms. So out of six radiators only three are active.
It’s strange to go from a lovely heated bedroom to a cold kitchen but it has reduced our bills.
It’s been quite a mild November. It’s probably a lot down to that
*”Hi Mr Ofgem, this is the energy companies here. Prices are wild for our customers so they won’t use as much energy as they are choosing to heat or eat, so can you do us a favour and lift the price cap so we can rinse these mugs even more?”*
*”Hi energy providers, give us 5 mins and we will put it up. Got to keep your profits in the billions!”*
Unsurprisingly, can’t believe how far backwards the country has gone.
Energy firms to shareholders: “guys I have a cunning plan.” What’s that? “We’ll increase the daily standing charge”
Not sure how tbh now that winters truly come I’ve had the heating on plenty 😅
oh no…. they are losing money, i guess they will have to hike the prices againi!