Avro energy - new contract with new supplier is going to be ridiculous

KenUsername

The Powers in charge made the rules, I didn’t pick a gas boiler or choose electricity, I use what is available to me.
Experts were warning about climate change a very long time ago, the people in charge ignored them, not me or you.
I’ll run my home on fresh air if I can, but I can’t, as I’m not a scientist.
Ironically the people who were in charge back then and now (Boris and his pals) can all afford to try new ways or ride out the huge increases in energy costs. 

I can’t.
This should have, and could have been sorted a long time ago by the people who’s job it is to run this country for its people.

hubb

I live in a single cavity house built in 1883. You can't insulate that I'm afraid.

pearl123

I was paying £49.00. I'm very careful with energy. It wouldn't suprise me if I end up paying close to £30.00 extra. During this pandemic I've been living off my modest savings. This energy crisis is a worry. 
If an energy company goes bump, their customers should be moved onto an enery tariff that's fair.

KenUsername

One of the causes of this energy price increase that is being used it that due to climate change and the hot summer we’ve just had, properties and buildings used more energy cooling down using air conditioning etc. So insulating isn’t the whole answer I’m afraid.
Staying cool is just as bad as warming up in energy consumption it seems.

Sea_Shell

hubb said:

I live in a single cavity house built in 1883. You can't insulate that I'm afraid.

Unless you fit internal false walls and lose square footage all over!!?

StarTrekkie007

I am currently paying £71 a month on a fixed rate.

I recently received an email saying my fixed rate contract is expiring soon & need to pick a new contract.
However, the ones on offer about double my monthly fee. (approx £120 & £140)

Tried to go to comparison sites but they arn't offering anything at the moment (saying the energy companies are working on getting new rates).

I think many will be in the same situation. Wonder how I can afford such an increase.

Uxb1

KenUsername said:

This should have, and could have been sorted a long time ago by the people who’s job it is to run this country for its people.

Right so next time someone wants to put up a nuclear power station  we are not in the future going to get 10 years of planning disputes and obstructions as we got for Sizewell B are we?
10 YEARS - that's how long the dispute ran for!
These disputes were not led by the government of the day - they were instigated by various pressure groups who have been hell bent on destroying any possibility of energy sufficiency for the UK or were just anti everything.  Just think if they had all been told to get lost by the gov, the courts and the rest we could now have a series of nuclear generators to replace the old AGR stations.
These objectors are the people you need to blame for where we are today.
You can add in the general population who want nothing more than low prices TODAY along with ever rising wages,pensions,dividends etc and sod any investment in the future.

It's exactly the same as to old story of mending the faulty roof tiles while the sun shines, if you continually put it off as its too expensive then eventually it fails totally and then it becomes REALLY expensive to have a new roof.

Aylesbury_Duck

KenUsername said:

The Powers in charge made the rules, I didn’t pick a gas boiler or choose electricity, I use what is available to me.
Experts were warning about climate change a very long time ago, the people in charge ignored them, not me or you.
I’ll run my home on fresh air if I can, but I can’t, as I’m not a scientist.
Ironically the people who were in charge back then and now (Boris and his pals) can all afford to try new ways or ride out the huge increases in energy costs. 

I can’t.
This should have, and could have been sorted a long time ago by the people who’s job it is to run this country for its people.

I agree entirely, but those people, despite their pre-advertised incompetence and unsuitability for government, were elected with a thumping majority less than two years ago.  Blame our fellow citizens who put them there.  They own it.  Elect clowns, get a circus.

Missy79

I currently pay around £80 per month (Igloo variable), there's only 2 of us, at work all day and nothing gets left on in other rooms etc, newish mid-terraced town house so no heating over the last several months and about an hour a day for hot water and the oven for say max an hour a day. I feel for people who have higher usage as costs have massively soared.

The problem with a "free market" is that the people who can do the least to modify their energy use (insulation, alternative heating sources etc) are also the hardest hit by price changes. If you want people to make positive environmental choices then these have to be heavily subsidised, you can't (well you can, but...) simply price the poorest out of being able to have any heating for instance, while the most wasteful (5 bed house with permanent security lighting and air-conditioning throughout for example) don't have to change at all because they can always afford the increases.

Aylesbury_Duck

KenUsername said:

One of the causes of this energy price increase that is being used it that due to climate change and the hot summer we’ve just had, properties and buildings used more energy cooling down using air conditioning etc. So insulating isn’t the whole answer I’m afraid.
Staying cool is just as bad as warming up in energy consumption it seems.

You're wrong. Insulation does help keep buildings cool as well.  That's why it's such a good investment.