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Are those outages typical for your area of the country or do you have specific issues with your home?
The challenge is who pays, who holds the debt and the interest rate/cost of capital. The network operators will source capital for network upgrades,...
I thought it was an interesting article and also an interesting set of comments covering lots of price considerations. Am sure @transparent and ...
His wife has a leased EV, they are on an EV tariff Octopus Go.You have just quoted a standard tariff I assume so the comparison isn't like for like. ...
@sheriff-fatman the conservatory probably had a separate thermostat fitted to meet building regulations. Officially they need a separate thermostat bu...
It is not clear to me that you have a clear idea of what you want the final solution to achieve in terms of the conservatory? Perhaps you do in your h...
I don't think there is any real consensus or buy in yet on what is the "best" so we are a long way off an Industry Regular then being truly charged. ...
An extension of this approach being talked about is to make loan payments via salary sacrifice on pre taxed income as a tax free benefit which would h...
@transparent 1: We do not yet know if Spain and Portugal have their own equivalent of Load Shedding, which I explained here earlier. We know Spai...
The update above was posted here a few days ago along with other information for anyone interested
There is consensus that the current model isn't fit for purpose, where there isn't concensus is what a new model should look like or the financial imp...
Doubling of annual allowance for distribution network spending. Sounds a lot to me. "Much of the final framework was shaped by a report by the Natio...
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