Power Generation, Companies and Prices

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

You can take the man out of scotland....

Joking aside, i am with you SLH, my house is too warm 24hrs a day, cant get through to the mrs to stick a jumper on!!

My Mrs was converted when, following our Nov-Feb 2013 bill, Scottish Power (yes I know) set our monthly payment at £272 a month. We've now got it down to £150 and we're monitoring usage to be about £130-£140 a month. But that is us being mean about our power usage

 

[DappaDonDave]

My Mrs was converted when, following our Nov-Feb 2013 bill, Scottish Power (yes I know) set our monthly payment at £272 a month. We've now got it down to £150 and we're monitoring usage to be about £130-£140 a month. But that is us being mean about our power usage

Do you put the heating on but open all the windows? Leave the cooker and hob on and run a hot bath every other hour? That's mental.

I live in a three story town house and our bill is £100 a month and we're in credit!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

So cutting the green levy will save us on average £50 a year. I have to say that £1 a week will actually make absolutely no difference to the vast majority of the population - in fact I suggest that it not make a difference to anyone. Is it really worth cutting the green levy leading to cutting back on energy saving projects and hence loss of jobs - for £1 a week?

Are we really that desperately skint that we will greet £50 a year as a great job done by the government on energy bills.

The underlying problem is the cost of generations (£550 average bill) and distribution (say £400). VAT on these two things ios about £50 - so there we are - £1000 pounds out of the average £1300 per annum. So all the stuff that can be filled with - profits and green levy and other stuff - say £300 inc VAT. Scrap VAT and profits and green levy and we save on average a max of £300 a year - so £6 a week. Not for the poorest of society that is in the 'makes a bit of a difference'.

But it is the maximum - and it is pie in the sky - could never happen. To get savings that make a difference it is clear to me that the structural make-up of our power costs has to be addresses - otherwise we are just stuck with what we have today.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Do you put the heating on but open all the windows? Leave the cooker and hob on and run a hot bath every other hour? That's mental.

I live in a three story town house and our bill is £100 a month and we're in credit!

Well you are doing well as your bill is less than the average - is it a new(er) town house?

 

[DappaDonDave]

Well you are doing well as your bill is less than the average - is it a new(er) town house?

It's late 80's I believe. Mid terrace with a two story on one side, three on the other. Must just be my northern thick skin and inch thick body hair

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

It's late 80's I believe. Mid terrace with a two story on one side, three on the other. Must just be my northern thick skin and inch thick body hair

That's probably largely the reason then - ours is pretty much unreconstructed 1918 build.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

So Michael Fallon (Energy Minister) tells me on the radio that we are ALL going to get £50 back. Well like millions I'm on a fixed rate deal - so let's see how they do that. Let me guess - I'll be told the cost in my rise was was going to be more - so in fact I won't actually get it back. We'll see.