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My Beautiful Ancient Microwave Oven
In 1984 I purchased a Panasonic microwave oven for £260/£280, approx. £800 today. It was used daily for 30 years with a new magnetron fitted in 1990. Since 2014 2 new microwaves have come and gone, and I have now retrieved the old one from storage and now use it daily. It is a big old beast, weighing in at 53lbs as opposed…
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Why are people so disparaging about IHDs?
I am relatively new to this board so this topic may have been discussed on many previous occasions. Apologies therefore if is this is going over old ground. I have had a smart meter and IHD for a few years and the data has always been 100% correct. I therefore find it surprising that so many seasoned forumites here are…
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Octopus Plunge Pricing 11th April
Everything set to run in my house ! Yorkshire region.
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Look what the media did.......
This was the case for my grandparents they had got themselves in such a state with the constant news about energy prices when in reality they had lots of government help and eventually once we talked through it they heated their home all over winter for free BBC News - Woman worried about energy bills died of…
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Cost of living payment
Well this should help pay a lot of people's energy use 1st April til end of June and relieve some pressure on them. BBC News - Millions to get next cost-of-living payment from Aprilhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65066972
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Price plunge on Agile
03:30 - 04:000.46p/kWh04:00 - 04:300.21p/kWh04:30 - 05:000.21p/kWh05:00 - 05:30-0.37p/kWh - Price plunge! I hope everyone is able/awake to use this. Think I'll grab an early breakfast though wish I had a EV or battery to charge up. I couldn't see any other posts mentioning this from yesterday.
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Standing Charge 10% Increase
Octopus have announced a 10% Price Increase to the Daily Standing Charge (and knocked a whopping 1p off the unit rate). These Standing Charges are a disgrace - when wholesale rates tumble, the Standing Charge goes up. How does that help people reduce their electric bill? - where is the incentive? Forget unit rates, the…
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MSE News: Budget 2023: Energy Price Guarantee to remain at £2,500 in win for Martin Lewis and MSE
Typical household energy bills will remain at £2,500 a year for at least three months from 1 April as the Government has heeded ours, and others, calls to postpone a planned 20% rise. The announcement ahead of today's Budget follows a month-long campaign led by Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, which has been…
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Martin Lewis on what's going to happen to your energy bills in the next few months
Will the Government cancel its planned 20% energy price rise in April and what will the new rates be? MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis answers these questions and more in the latest episode of ITV's The Martin Lewis Money Show Live – which also features an interview with energy secretary Grant Shapps... Read the…
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SoEnergy shambles - meter replaced due to its age
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smart meter by choice (elderly parent with dementia couldn't cope with this as would have put it away in a drawer) but I have religiously submit monthly readings to So Energy and
take photos as evidence. National Grid wrote with a date of 14/10/22 to have Gas meter replaced due to its
age. They advised me So Energy…
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BG Double Charged on Latest Bill
Going through the Electricity bill from BG I spotted they had double charged me for energy use. Issue is they had used an Estimated reading at the end of my last bill (even though I have a smart meter) and the actual meter reading at the start of the new bill. And the actual was less than the estimate; so I was charged…
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Heat loss assessment
Hi all, Having previously lived in flats it's been a bit if eye opener moving to a house but one thing is obvious is it's very cold and looses heat very quickly. Is there any professional that can look into where heat is being lost? Thought about a heating engineer but they may not look into insulation etc. Thanks
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Pat on the back for taxpayers past,present and future
I don't know about you but the last year's energy costs were nicely discounted and with some cutting back certainly no where near the shock levels they could have been without all the Government measures. On course for £1575 for end of March 2023. (Includes the £400 discount) Now in some form or another the 3 taxpayers in…
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New OVO tariff for those with electric cars
www.ovoenergy.com/campaigns/charge-anytime Basically gives you a partial refund of the car charging energy, when you allow the app to control the charging time. Keep your standard OVO tariff and add on charge-anytime to reduce your app controlled car charging to 10p/KWH. You need to have one of a long list of electric cars…
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BG to stop switching smart meters to PAYG
Going by a few posts on here, this should put some people's minds at ease... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64331449
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Some good news in the latest predictions
Good not fantastic
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Elnur gabarron
Hi , I have the ecombi ssh . My electric bill doubled until I read a whole lot on these heaters .I have set mine to manual mode ,no programming , I can now set the temp myself I have it at 18, it stores at night 7 hours and still only charges to 4 bars , I then in the evening increase temp to 20 , it works fine and my bill…
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Degree Days
Reading the Energy Forum I am a little surprised that Degree Days has not been mentioned. This is the mechanism that professionals use to measure and predict heating (and cooling) loads for buildings. It can be a little confusing for those of us not mathematically inclined but I have found it worth the study. All is…
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Latest Cornwall Insights predictions 4th Jan 2023s
Maybe....some good news on the horizon mainly for the government but also some savings in the second half of the year. https://www.cornwall-insight.com/drop-in-wholesale-energy-prices-sees-price-cap-predictions-fall-below-the-epg-for-second-half-of-2023/
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Is Octopus Down?
I've just tried to access my account to input my end of month readings but I'm just getting a 403 Forbidden message.
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