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Monday. Ouch.
Make £2025 in 2025
Prolific £229.82, Octopoints £4.27, Topcashback £290.85, Tesco Clubcard challenges £60, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £10.
Total £915.94/£2025 45.2%
Make £2024 in 2024
Prolific £907.37, Chase Intt £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus referral reward £50, Octopoints £70.46, Topcashback £112.03, Shopmium referral £3, Iceland bonus £4, Ipsos survey £20, Misc Sales £55.44Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
The Met office? Pretty well known I would have thought, and certainly the best known source of weather forecasts in the U.K.Telegraph_Sam said:I tend to be sceptical over anything other than short term, regional / local forecasts. Have you had much experience with the app you have published, and what was the source? Ah I've just read Octopus Watch
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/met-office
🎉 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/her1 -
Take wind and the pressure maps from BBC not much wind Mon ar 1500 isobars spread, and compare Sat very close together isobars likely loads of wind.Telegraph_Sam said:I tend to be sceptical over anything other than short term, regional / local forecasts. Have you had much experience with the app you have published, and what was the source? Ah I've just read Octopus Watch
4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy0 -
Are we predicting it's going to be high until Friday? This month's bill is going to be a stonker1
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It's looking that way isn't it. I'm still just in credit at the moment for the month over the SVR but that's skewed by a very heavy use day on the 1st - with that removed the rest of the month would leave me just under £1 down, and that's going to be more significant by the end of the week I suspect!🎉 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/her1 -
I'm still pretty well up for the month, but that includes the heavy use at the beginning of the month too. I think I might have been better off on Flux for the last week or so as I'd have been charging the battery at different times. But overall, it's still working out for me. I just need to get myself organised with a bit more automation!0
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10p less on the s/c until March and as ultra low user that still makes it cheaper for me overall, wanted to drink less coffee so an excuse to cut back to a mere two cups a day (I did not realise until recently that my 800W microwave is actually consuming 1400W!)... also the CH seems to consume about 100W for the pump, etc as well so have not turned that on for its morning session.0
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Are you certain that simply using the kettle wouldn't be cheaper for you than faffing about microwaving water?wrf12345 said:10p less on the s/c until March and as ultra low user that still makes it cheaper for me overall, wanted to drink less coffee so an excuse to cut back to a mere two cups a day (I did not realise until recently that my 800W microwave is actually consuming 1400W!)... also the CH seems to consume about 100W for the pump, etc as well so have not turned that on for its morning session.🎉 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/her0 -
You will still need the same amount of energy to raise the water to the required temperatureEssexHebridean said:
Are you certain that simply using the kettle wouldn't be cheaper for you than faffing about microwaving water?wrf12345 said:10p less on the s/c until March and as ultra low user that still makes it cheaper for me overall, wanted to drink less coffee so an excuse to cut back to a mere two cups a day (I did not realise until recently that my 800W microwave is actually consuming 1400W!)... also the CH seems to consume about 100W for the pump, etc as well so have not turned that on for its morning session.4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy0 -
But the kettle will be much closer to 1 watt in = 1 watt out, unlike the microwave which (entirely typically) wastes almost half the power as conversion losses.debitcardmayhem said:
You will still need the same amount of energy to raise the water to the required temperatureEssexHebridean said:
Are you certain that simply using the kettle wouldn't be cheaper for you than faffing about microwaving water?wrf12345 said:10p less on the s/c until March and as ultra low user that still makes it cheaper for me overall, wanted to drink less coffee so an excuse to cut back to a mere two cups a day (I did not realise until recently that my 800W microwave is actually consuming 1400W!)... also the CH seems to consume about 100W for the pump, etc as well so have not turned that on for its morning session.There's a Technology Connections video all about it. I think it's this one:N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill member.
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 34 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.Not exactly back from my break, but dipping in and out of the forum.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!3
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