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Er that's true of boilers also, except the long term costs are 100% guaranteed certain and manifest themselves as climate change. Heating, it seems...
No to both so far as I can see, The wholesale price was pretty constant during this period so its doesnt appear to have anything to do with generation...
The following chart (from Ofgem) shows the wholesale electricity price and adds strongly to the proposition that the steady increase in retail prices ...
Here is a chart showing the ratio of prices (per kWh) since 2011, based on ONS data here Make of this what you may, but its clear that, du...
Assuming you have a smart meter and given you have a Vaillant you should be able to get 15p/kWh for your heat pump consumption from OVO. As I have an...
I think I can agree with that as long as it stays in the ground until needed. We dont want to be held to ransom unnecessarily by some foreign power an...
I can accept that to an extent, there is, after all, scope for disagreement over what is 'right'. What I cant accept is that telling the truth has b...
... easier still is to find a scapegoat and blame all woes on them/that. You don't even have to criticise, just parrot peoples concerns and then sa...
Very few if any investments guarantee that. Cash becomes the only safe option if you have only a 5 year return horizon, and much of the time returns ...
I think that resonates with what @transparent tells us about it being inefficient to turn off certain gas plants, hence we pay , on occasions, (presum...
The world certainly, we should have started 30+ years ago. Unfortunately the oil industry and other vested interests hid the evidence and then fillyb...
I have heard of many people with a weakness for new cars, rather few for new vans. Mine is a pint or several, probably as costly averaged over a...
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