Electricity price predictions

MattEngineer · 2021-12-03T18:39:26Z

When the energy cap comes up for renewal I think it will rise to 26.5p per unit, any thoughts of the collective?

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Toodles

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04/11/2025 5:51 pm

@jamesPa wrote: I propose we detach the UK and tow it to the Pacific Ocean…

Calling Major Dennis Bloodnock et al, here is a good little earner / scam for you … (Go-on, you know it makes sense)😉 Toodles.

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04/11/2025 6:44 pm

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The solution is to move to where the conditions for cheap energy exist and reduce our population density

I propose we detach the UK and tow it to the Pacific Ocean, whilst at the same time executing 99% of our population.

Clearly this is not going to happen!

Having sensible prices in the range of 13p to 18p per Kwh would solve a lot of issues in the UK, however as usual in this s**thole of a country, we have to pay a premium for bureaucracy and incompetence for what seems to be every major project undertaken, HS2 a case in point.

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04/11/2025 6:59 pm

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, we have to pay a premium for bureaucracy and incompetence

Do you have evidence that our level of bureaucracy/incompetence is worse than any other reasonably comparable country. Perhaps it's just humans at work and the laws of physics.

That's a serious comment btw. Its easy to criticise, much less easy to make the tough decisions with real world constraints. So far as I can tell every country has some problems in the way it works. For some reason people still find the UK an attractive place to come to or stay in which is somewhat at variance with your description.

As it happens I do agree that the cost of electricity could be lower. Our previous government took the decision to load the transition costs onto electricity, not gas or general taxation, and our current government hasn't (yet?) changed that. This thinking, it would seem in the interests of political expediency, further prolongs our dependence on despot states. It's also bad for industries which have a heavy dependency on electricity. However government has to make difficult choices and it's unlikely any of us will agree with them all.

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