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Are you buying your firewood from Fortnum & Mason?
Energy bill increases
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Are you buying your firewood from Fortnum & Mason?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I was paying £1,000 p.a. to British Gas. For the same usage, that would now become £1,850, but might rise to as much as £2,800. BG has generously decided to offer me a fixed price of £2,507... 
oldwheels
Legendary Member
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- Isle of Mull
Somebody I knew who used to work for the old Hydro Board deliberately overpaid and used it as a kind of savings scheme. Just before Christmas she got all the overpayment back to pay for the expenses at Christmas and New Year.
iluvmybike
Über Member
I have just put our monthly meter readings in to our energy supplier - our charges were about £85 and when I looked our account was in credit by £326! The reason for this is that they hiked our monthly DD for dual fuel in March from £95 to £209.00 as our fixed deal expired. So basically they have totally over estimated our usage in the guise of 'due to the price cap rise'. We haven't altered our normal behaviours or anything. Fortunately, they make it easy to change the DD and also to request some of our cash back. So it is worthwhile keeping a check on what you are actually spending compared to what they think they should be charging - even allowing for it ironing out the fall and rise as the seasons change...
Scaleyback
Veteran
- Location
- North Yorkshire
You do know don't you that energy companies estimate your annual usage (based on previous history) then divide that by 12. What they don't want is you falling into massive overdraft once winter arrives.
PaulSB
Legendary Member
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- Chorley, Lancashire
Exactly.
- Location
- Inside my skull
In which case it can go up for 6 months and back down for 6 months.
- Location
- Inside my skull
That’s a lot I pay less than that a year for both gas and electric at the new rates.
Horses for courses depends on the size of house ! Or you have a shed load of solar and batteries !
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I live in an old house that is badly insulated and in the winter average 23+ hours a day indoors!
In the summer it is probably more like 22 hours a day.
- Location
- Glasgow
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Is lockdown still on??
Ha ha!
No, it is how I have lived for a long time now. When people were complaining about lockdown it made me realise that my lifestyle isn't quite 'normal' because it hardly made any difference to me...
Not posted here in a while and will probably dissappear again after this post
one of the thing i have done to reduce electrical costs is a gas grill and pizza oven outside for cooking and using a solar generator linked to a 200w solar panel in my office........and for those who said TVs cant be run from solar, its been working brilliantly for the past 5mths
Office TV uses as little as 40watts/h
SkyQ box uses 10watts/h
Laptop 40watts/h...but only when it needs recharging
Spare PC screen 10watts/h....
My last 3 days of energy comsumption since aquiring the pizza oven is 5.5kwh sunday, 5kwh monday and 4kwh yesterday. With electrical costs rising the way they are, they will all pay themselves back in no time.
one of the thing i have done to reduce electrical costs is a gas grill and pizza oven outside for cooking and using a solar generator linked to a 200w solar panel in my office........and for those who said TVs cant be run from solar, its been working brilliantly for the past 5mths
Office TV uses as little as 40watts/h
SkyQ box uses 10watts/h
Laptop 40watts/h...but only when it needs recharging
Spare PC screen 10watts/h....
My last 3 days of energy comsumption since aquiring the pizza oven is 5.5kwh sunday, 5kwh monday and 4kwh yesterday. With electrical costs rising the way they are, they will all pay themselves back in no time.