Anyone hate how the BBC are celebrating and normalising something that shouldn’t be celebrated or normal?
£10! Wow I feel so grateful towards the energy mafia
This is national disaster, it’s like celebrating Captain Tom walking again where poor 100 year old veteran had to walk around care home for miles to rise money for nurses.
Here we are sold a sad story of parents picking kids from school to be sat in a house in a dark as some great story.
Fact that this is a thing should make everyone outraged nor a reason to celebrations.
“Suppliers will be paid between £3 and £6 per unit of energy saved, but can choose how much of that to pass on to their customers.”
Who is the genius that decided to let suppliers decide how much they keep for the shareholders?
BBC are full of shit.
Turn off your electricity and we MIGHT give you £3.
Meanwhile we will keep charging you extortionate prices for the electricity you are using oh and by the way we are exporting more electricity than ever before because we have so much.
Reality: go cold and hungry while we sell the energy you don’t use and we may or may not buy you a pint.
>They will find out in a few days how much their bonus will be, but if she is right they will be paid around £10.
That is fucking tragic
What future awaits us?
“Sorry I’m late for work boss, Octopus have me over a barrel and made me unplug my mandatory electric car last night so the NHS could keep the lights on, I’ve had to spend this morning charging it up”
Or, something radical, run it properly and don’t palm us off with a shit service? Maybe reopen the gas storage you got rid of?
*”Have you tried: Hypothermia?*
*It’s all the trend, and we’ll give you a tenner!”*
What is this dystopia?
Wonder of Rishi will be turning off his new £500k heated swimming pool?
Everything? Including the fridge freezer? How about no.
Anyone else got an offer to sign up to a similar scheme from British Gas?
Do they even give you £10 or is it just credit on your electric bill
This is part of the same nonsense as the solar buyback issue.
The tories allow energy companies to pick whatever price they want when it comes to buying back energy. So people with solar panels sometimes produce extra energy. Some companies were paying people 3p per kWh, at the same time as they’re charging people ten times that much. As a result, it wasn’t worth anyone’s while to feed that electricity back in, and they’d be more likely to up their usage on things that had a more marginal benefit.
It’ll be a similar thing here, if energy companies are picking their own value for ‘saved’ electricity to rebate people.
The reward is based on your usage on the day vs your normal day at that time.
What is to stop people moving all their daily usage into peak hours, then reaping a large reward on the savings days? Run your dryer, dishwasher, washing machine and cook during peak hours to get savings on the reward days.
Note I’m not talking about increasing usage, just concentrating it into peak hours to bump up the difference.
I’m a single guy in a small flat, I cannot save any more electricity over the one lamp that I had on from 5-6pm last night. More single person discrimination…
This sounds like a trial run for brown outs that is being given a positive spin
Redditors: We should go completely renewable!
Also redditors: Smart grid and demand management is the work of the devil!
This is all a way of the gov to essentially buy energy off poor people for their rich mates
Mate, it’s less than £3 for every kilowatt hour saved. If anyone is using 4kwh in one timeframe then they’re seriously burning money the rest of the time. An oven is 2kwh so what else is on while cooking? Boiling a kettle non stop for an hour??
All we can do is not use the washing machine kettle or tumble drier. That’s it.
They’re basically asking people to delay putting a wash on and go hungry for a bit. Which is a bigger ask. All for £3.
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Anyone hate how the BBC are celebrating and normalising something that shouldn’t be celebrated or normal?
£10! Wow I feel so grateful towards the energy mafia
This is national disaster, it’s like celebrating Captain Tom walking again where poor 100 year old veteran had to walk around care home for miles to rise money for nurses.
Here we are sold a sad story of parents picking kids from school to be sat in a house in a dark as some great story.
Fact that this is a thing should make everyone outraged nor a reason to celebrations.
“Suppliers will be paid between £3 and £6 per unit of energy saved, but can choose how much of that to pass on to their customers.”
Who is the genius that decided to let suppliers decide how much they keep for the shareholders?
BBC are full of shit.
Turn off your electricity and we MIGHT give you £3.
Meanwhile we will keep charging you extortionate prices for the electricity you are using oh and by the way we are exporting more electricity than ever before because we have so much.
Reality: go cold and hungry while we sell the energy you don’t use and we may or may not buy you a pint.
>They will find out in a few days how much their bonus will be, but if she is right they will be paid around £10.
That is fucking tragic
What future awaits us?
“Sorry I’m late for work boss, Octopus have me over a barrel and made me unplug my mandatory electric car last night so the NHS could keep the lights on, I’ve had to spend this morning charging it up”
Or, something radical, run it properly and don’t palm us off with a shit service? Maybe reopen the gas storage you got rid of?
*”Have you tried: Hypothermia?*
*It’s all the trend, and we’ll give you a tenner!”*
What is this dystopia?
Wonder of Rishi will be turning off his new £500k heated swimming pool?
Everything? Including the fridge freezer? How about no.
Anyone else got an offer to sign up to a similar scheme from British Gas?
Do they even give you £10 or is it just credit on your electric bill
This is part of the same nonsense as the solar buyback issue.
The tories allow energy companies to pick whatever price they want when it comes to buying back energy. So people with solar panels sometimes produce extra energy. Some companies were paying people 3p per kWh, at the same time as they’re charging people ten times that much. As a result, it wasn’t worth anyone’s while to feed that electricity back in, and they’d be more likely to up their usage on things that had a more marginal benefit.
It’ll be a similar thing here, if energy companies are picking their own value for ‘saved’ electricity to rebate people.
The reward is based on your usage on the day vs your normal day at that time.
What is to stop people moving all their daily usage into peak hours, then reaping a large reward on the savings days? Run your dryer, dishwasher, washing machine and cook during peak hours to get savings on the reward days.
Note I’m not talking about increasing usage, just concentrating it into peak hours to bump up the difference.
I’m a single guy in a small flat, I cannot save any more electricity over the one lamp that I had on from 5-6pm last night. More single person discrimination…
This sounds like a trial run for brown outs that is being given a positive spin
Redditors: We should go completely renewable!
Also redditors: Smart grid and demand management is the work of the devil!
This is all a way of the gov to essentially buy energy off poor people for their rich mates
Mate, it’s less than £3 for every kilowatt hour saved. If anyone is using 4kwh in one timeframe then they’re seriously burning money the rest of the time. An oven is 2kwh so what else is on while cooking? Boiling a kettle non stop for an hour??
All we can do is not use the washing machine kettle or tumble drier. That’s it.
They’re basically asking people to delay putting a wash on and go hungry for a bit. Which is a bigger ask. All for £3.