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I do like the Nesta articles generally, including the price cap breakdown every quarterly change. Shifting ROCs and even FIT to gas would help short...
Cornwall Insight view of Bill reduction Gives a bit more info on the amounts but not the gas/electricity split. The RO cut is only for 3 years. ...
So bills going down following budget 1. The reduction will start at the 1 April price cap. 2. Everything else being equal it will be roughly 3....
Interesting logic. We could also drill for more gas in the North Sea during the transition to net zero. This wouldn't necessarily reduce costs u...
Is the national 10% figure quoted somewhere @transparent? I assume you are looking at a different figure than me? The government gives a breakdown ...
Yep, no quick fixes now. I am not optimistic about the migration to net zero in terms of costs but we have to do it for climate change. Meanwhile w...
UK the most expensive place for new nuclear. The government target is to triple capacity by 2050 providing a quarter of our electricity in th...
Nesta have updated their figures breaking down the latest price cap for anyone interested
Simple article with a DENZ graph showing how gas which sets the market price normally is currently cheaper than wind farms for electricity As the...
Interesting to see the net effect. Unit rates of electricity increasing, Unit rates of gas falling. We may even see more drastic cuts in unit rates...
Lots of interest free loans out there for gas boilers if you can get credit and you don't rent. Depends on the definition of low income and the ove...
The last census said 2.8 million one bed households so it will be higher than that now. The government says circa £4500 for a small home for air to...
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