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We do have many fruit trees in our garden. It will be a summer of apple, apricot and plum mash with sausages instead of real mash!
@jamespa The optics look terrible though for Octopus Energy to increase prices just three weeks after they came down. I just checked that the fixed Go...
Looks like the variable versions of Octopus Go, Intelligent Octopus Go and Octopus Cosy tariffs are going up again from 1st May. Has anyone received a...
Lovely subtle pun! I don't have a Tesla, but Growatt does this too. It starts charging at full pelt, then as it reaches higher levels of charge, the...
@jamespa Agree with you that this is a knotty problem and would take multiple small steps and many years to resolve. Many of us here are insulated fro...
I am also not an energy markets expert and financial markets are more up my street, so take my views with a pinch of salt. But, from what I read on Gu...
Well, that's one sureshot way to ensure smart money stays away! Then in a few years' time we would be wondering why new large scale renewable energy i...
Interesting to see some new proposals being floated by the UK government on how to.delink gas and electricity prices. Not sure how and when, but if th...
That's the gas meter disconnected! No fuss service from Octopus. I sent the email to Octopus and spoke to them last week, gas disconnection scheduled ...
@agentgeorge Our running costs are so similar and off by £1 per month! Our running total for the past 12 months is £708 and averages to about 11.7p pe...
@agentgeorge 85% usage during off-peak rates is quite good. We have an Aira heat pump and can't boost temperatures during certain times of the day. Te...
That's amazing. Would love to just run our heat pump during the off-peak hours! But despite living in a relatively new build we do have to run our hea...
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