Drago
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It wasn't very expensive to do 8 inches of loft insulation myself.
Ours wasn't but that is not to say the rules haven't changedMeans tested I believe
You're welcome to it, nasty horrible stuff, my choices were to let somebody else do it for free, or pay for it & do it myself, I'll let you decide which I went with.It wasn't very expensive to do 8 inches of loft insulation myself.
Yes, I fully understand this and knew, roughly, it to be the case. I fully appreciate the energy which actually enters my home will have been generated by one of several different methods.It's doesn't matter where British Gas, Scottish Power, or Yorkshire Tea buy their power from - it all comes down the same cable form the same source, and only the distribution network (in my case Western Power distribution) have any influence on that. Indeed, even they have little real influence because the infrastructure is fixed. They can't flick a switch and only pipe Treehugger Power Ltd electricity to your house because you've now signed with them.
No matter what you do the power you use comes form the same source or combinaton of sources, be it coal, gas, solar, wind, or albatross wing beats. It's a paper exercise, not an exercise in physically providing you with power from a more sustainable source.
The most that can be done is to switch in or out strategic level generators - usually gas, because its high output and can be brought on line quickly - to pick up the slack during times of high demand. That's high order stuff, not the sort of thing that can be done to supply an individual customers property.
I probably didn't explain myself very well. The supplier has to purchase energy from a generator. The supplier can choose where to purchase that energy and if the supplier chooses to purchase 100% of its energy from green sources through my purchasing from that green supplier I am helping my green supplier to achieve this. Clearly there can't be different forms of electricity travelling along the same lines.
Looks to be only available if claiming benefits these daysOurs wasn't but that is not to say the rules haven't changed
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