Last seen: Aug 29, 2025
@majordennisbloodnok On July 1st., we swapped from OE’s Agile tariff to the new Cosy (MK11 I call it) and although a month in mid-summer is hardly a c...
@derek-m I would have thought that diversification throughout the UK (using the most windy and the most sun drenched areas) would stand the best chanc...
@transparent Why am I not surprised?!😉 The ‘Duck’ curve needs to be flattened (or shot perhaps!) and we would have the makings of a service ...
@bontwoody I’ve heard various mutterings about ‘the price of electricity should be lowered to be on a par with gas’, what I am unaware of is any concr...
@transparent I imagine that the maximum demand occurs outside of the ‘normal’ hours used currently for much of the EV charging of domestic vehicles an...
@jeff I’ll admit that I was grateful for the £5000 BUS grant - I have forked out a great deal more than that of course and was fortunate in having sav...
@derek-m I think you may mean “Krecktid’? Toodles.
@editor I agree wholeheartedly Mars, and may I confess to shouting at BBC Radio Four *programmes* for their shockingly poor use of English as she shou...
@majordennisbloodnok Quite so Bloodnock!
@editor Turing was there first and I suspect he used programme (as I do too!). Toodles.
As you may know @mars, we are trying the newish Octopus Energy Cosy tariff (that I refer to as ‘MK11’). This revised version allows a total of 8 hours...
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