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Mail online article about how the rolling blackouts will be planned and implemented.
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Nothing on my Eon Next bill but I dug out an old Eon PDF and there is a box with H next to the address. Went through all my other old bills - Symbio, Neon Reef, Eversmart, Iresa - and found nothing from those but Extra Energy and old EDF bills did have it.
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[Deleted User] said:There are quite a lot of installations where the circuits to storage radiators are only supplied by the off-peak terminal of the meter, or through a contactor controlled by the meter's timer (not an external timer switch).
Making these radiators turn on outside the off-peak period would require rewiring.0 -
deano2099 said:EssexHebridean said:deano2099 said:EssexHebridean said:Trapdoor said:EssexHebridean said:Hmmm….under those plans we’d have a very chilly Monday and Tuesday with short charged heating overnight on both Sunday and Monday. Not exactly surprised to see that this is massively loaded towards GSH’d homes, but there you go!
I disagree it's not affordable. We're not talking long term here. We're talking essentially a country-wide emergency that may last a couple of days. And even if that happens, it's not likely to effect overnight electric, and even if it does, it's maybe one day. Yes, that'd be an expensive day to heat the house, but it's just one day. It won't cost anymore than buying a battery pack for your phone.
Essentially with planned rolling blackouts the most useful thing you want are batteries. As batteries allow you to effectively time-shift around the blackouts. Battery packs let you charge your phone and tablet. Emergency batteries let you run your fishtank or router. Storage heaters are effectively very large batteries for heat energy, and will allow you to shift around the heating times.
No, you won't get value for money doing that but nothing in this discussion was about value for money. Best value for money is just shift your sleep pattern and sleep through the blackout whenever it is!
For those who then need to use extra heating for the evenings for days as a result of short charged heaters - that can be around £1 an hour in some cases - and no, for many people that sort of additional cost for heating is not affordable. (Remembering that the cost "saved" by less charge occuring overnight will be substantially less than this)
The advantage of buying a battery pack for your phone is that the significant part of that investment is a tangible asset that can be used again in the future - you pay £10 plus the cost of electricity for the first use, subsequently you only pay the pennies it will then take to recharge. I presume you wouldn't consider it quite so affordable if every time you needed to use a powerbank on your phone you had to purchase a brand new one?
As for "sleeping through the blackout" - that is precisely what I would be happening if the blackout is the one that has been mentioned as adversely affecting those with E7 heating, ie midnight>3am.
For avoidance of doubt I have lived with storage heaters for nearly 20 years, including having (I think) 4 different models and 2 different makes of heaters over that time. At this point we still have two different makes and three different models in the flat, so I do have a reasonably good understanding of how they work! ;-)🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her2 -
"Nothing on my Eon Next bill"Just looked at my last statement/bill and it's on the electricity statement page directly under the supply address."Postcode area alpha identifier: P"
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oldagetraveller1 said:"Nothing on my Eon Next bill"Just looked at my last statement/bill and it's on the electricity statement page directly under the supply address."Postcode area alpha identifier: P"1
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Deleted_User said:oldagetraveller1 said:"Nothing on my Eon Next bill"Just looked at my last statement/bill and it's on the electricity statement page directly under the supply address."Postcode area alpha identifier: P"
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As LilacPotato posted earlier, if you want to know your block letter then you can use this Find Your Network Operator website.
No need to wait for an updated electric bill.3 -
[Deleted User] said:oldagetraveller1 said:"Nothing on my Eon Next bill"Just looked at my last statement/bill and it's on the electricity statement page directly under the supply address."Postcode area alpha identifier: P"
Same here.
It does make you wonder that it's (blackouts) more likely, if this information is now being put in the customers domain.
Why else would we need that info?How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 2.60% of current retirement "pot" (as at end May 2025)2 -
It's strange how a few articles in the press can mean that companies that make backup batteries such as Anker actually run out of stock for the remaining of the yearSo we could be using blackouts to reserve power, so people use twice as much power to charge backup batteries, which only means that the power will run out twice as fast and we'll end up with longer blackouts.2
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Level 18 blackout is pretty spicy! At level 20 do they turn off the sun?4
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