News: Energy bills to rise by £700/yr for many | Chancellor unveils up to £350 households support

Mylo0811

Apologies if this shouldn’t be posted here, wasn’t sure where to ask.

I’m currently a full time student, and working 2 jobs part time along side. I’m quite worried about the rise in bills. My Gas & Electric is already up £60 a month. Once I’m back on placement I have to cut my hours in work to fit in the full time placement hours, so I’ll be down even more. Don’t get paid for placement obviously.

As I’m as student I won’t benefit from the £150 rebait, as I don’t pay council tax (students don’t have to). Im still paying my way on my own and working hard to do so. Im 30, a mature student, lost both my parents so don’t have the financial support of them. I assume I have no way of claiming the £150 help?

Will the £200 promised come off peoples utilities automatically? Im currently up to date with my utilities, but if they go up more, it will become a struggle.

NameWithheld

mdjuergens said:

1. Find your region

Any idea how to do that?. We are either in the Midlands or South West depending on context. If I remember correctly, back in the days before privatisation this area was served by Midlands Electricity and South West Gas.

QrizB

NameWithheld said:

mdjuergens said:

1. Find your region

Any idea how to do that?. We are either in the Midlands or South West depending on context. If I remember correctly, back in the days before privatisation this area was served by Midlands Electricity and South West Gas.

To be honest it doesn't make a big difference. Midlands and South-West have similar rates.

Cynic1965

wittynamegoeshere said:

Andy1T said:

All this talk and hype about those fortunate to live in a home with mains gas and/or electricity.  What about a price cap for the significant numbers of people living in rural homes who MUST  use oil or natural gas?

Nobody MUST use any fossil fuel.  We're 100% electric.  Have you looked at heat pumps?

And how do you think 40-60% of your electricity is generated? When the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing (a winter’s night when high pressure is sitting over us) I’m afraid it’s methane which keeps the generators turning.

Cynic1965

I saw Martin’s chat with Sunak last night. I think Martin’s face said it all! Did I hear correctly that if, say, one of your family left home after this payment (on mum’s/dad’s bill) then they will still get this 40/yr for 5 years added to their bill even though they did not benefit from the £200? It wouldn’t surprise me with the shower in charge!!!

kk20

MattMattMattUK said:

kk20 said:

im all for nuclear but calling it "green" is a stretch when we cant really do anything other than bury the waste.  Solar and Wind are great but we need more reliable mass storage for overnight lull or overcapacity periods - be that stored air or reservoir.  Even H2 cracking would be better than nothing.

Deep geological repository is a perfectly reasonable solution to highly radioactive waste, most of the low level stuff is not nearly as much of an issue as people think it is. It is green in that there is almost no carbon emissions (there is a low level from the construction of the plants). There are plenty of options for storage, pumped storage, air, H2 will be ideal longer term as it has other applications and can be used from all excess production, it also works particularly well with nuclear plants. 

I agree, except we dont have a working solution to do this and we need storage now.  I live in the lakes and have seen the proposals on offer.    Sellafield is a crumbling mess, it is a corroded nightmare and wasnt meant to hold as much waste as it has done for some time now.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-waste/storage-and-disposal-of-radioactive-waste.aspx

Even the body that wants to shout about it can only show a small US deep repository online.  Everyone else is looking at ideas.  Sure, Finland has broken ground and hopes to start small working models in the next 5 years.  All good in theory, all decades from commercial completion.

Nuclear could be a greener alternative but at the moment it simply isnt. 

GingerTim

Cynic1965 said:

I saw Martin’s chat with Sunak last night. I think Martin’s face said it all! Did I hear correctly that if, say, one of your family left home after this payment (on mum’s/dad’s bill) then they will still get this 40/yr for 5 years added to their bill even though they did not benefit from the £200? It wouldn’t surprise me with the shower in charge!!!

Yep, that's how it works. If a new property was built in 2024, it would also have the £40 levied against it until 2027.

Cynic1965

coupleuk said:

It is about time a tidal barrage was built between Brean Down (Somerset) and South Wales.

The Bristol Channel has the 2nd highest tidal range in the World and it won't ever stop - why aren't we using this amazing natural resource for energy?

The construction cost is less than the new nuclear plant down the road and there would be thousands of job created in South Wales and Somerset too - the 10,000 HPC workers are already in the area so the workforce will be ready in 3 or 4 years time.

Because the environmentalists are worried about a family of guillemots upstream! Tides peak at different times around the entire British Isles, so is a regular and predictable source of energy, but why let that get in the way of the argument!!!

1PS

Currently on a 2yr fixed term with Octopus Energy which ends next month. From what I have read, its really not a good time to be looking at switching. Have been offered the following 12m fixed term. Any 'experts' in here that think its a reasonable deal?

Electric 

15.27p p/KwH - New 33.51p p/KwH

24.49p p/day - New 24.03p p/day

 

Gas

2.77p p/KwH - New 8.81p p/KwH

25.04p p/day - New 26.10p p/day

 

I personally think it might be the best I can get and given the uncertainty, might be wise to take this for the 12 month period?

QrizB

1PS said:

Currently on a 2yr fixed term with Octopus Energy which ends next month. From what I have read, its really not a good time to be looking at switching. Have been offered the following 12m fixed term. Any 'experts' in here that think its a reasonable deal?

Unless you're a *very* low user, that's quite a bit higher than the April cap.