| Energy price cap. 09:19 - Sep 8 with 2510 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
If you don't spend £2500 on metered energy will you still be paying full wack? Eg us poor folk on oil for heating in the sticks. |  |
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| Energy price cap. on 12:38 - Sep 8 with 512 views | Ryorry |
| Energy price cap. on 12:31 - Sep 8 by clive_baker |
Yes they can but it costs a fortune to do, literally thousands. You're quite right that could be an option though. |
Ah right, thanks for the info. |  |
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| Energy price cap. on 12:41 - Sep 8 with 507 views | giant_stow |
| Energy price cap. on 12:31 - Sep 8 by clive_baker |
Yes they can but it costs a fortune to do, literally thousands. You're quite right that could be an option though. |
I will look into this - cheers R |  |
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| Energy price cap. on 13:22 - Sep 8 with 472 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Energy price cap. on 12:35 - Sep 8 by Freddies_Ears |
There is no price cap. It's a rate cap, so a household with 'average' use will end up paying £2500. If you use less than the 'average', you will pay less. If you use more, you will pay more. As for larger properties, larger households, poorly insulated properties, and people stuck oop North where the weather is bleak - they are likely to have to pay far more than £2,500.
Oh, and £2,500 for an 'average' family? That is still a lot to pay - over £200 per month... |
I know you are correct but just heard Truss say on the radio that nobody will pay more than £2,500...all very misleading. | |
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| Energy price cap. on 13:50 - Sep 8 with 452 views | hoppy |
| Energy price cap. on 13:22 - Sep 8 by BanksterDebtSlave |
I know you are correct but just heard Truss say on the radio that nobody will pay more than £2,500...all very misleading. |
You may as well just copy and paste this into a note somewhere to save typing out in full each time, just fill in the relative section...
"I know you are correct but just heard Truss say on the radio that <insert thing heard on radio>...all very misleading." |  |
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| Energy price cap. on 13:53 - Sep 8 with 450 views | Skip_Intro |
| Energy price cap. on 09:58 - Sep 8 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Don't think our heating oil costs will be included in the £2500. |
it was mentioned that they were looking at some kind of measures for heating oil users too...fingers crossed! |  | | |
| Energy price cap. on 13:58 - Sep 8 with 429 views | Ryorry |
| Energy price cap. on 13:53 - Sep 8 by Skip_Intro |
it was mentioned that they were looking at some kind of measures for heating oil users too...fingers crossed! |
Tory MPs in rural constituencies where there's no mains gas already finding their inboxes overflowing are they?! | |
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| Energy price cap. on 15:09 - Sep 8 with 391 views | dirtyboy |
| Energy price cap. on 10:51 - Sep 8 by clive_baker |
£5k is punch but I do sympathise and know all too well that those old AGA's can be outrageously inefficient to be fair. It's effectively the equivalent of having 2 radiators on full blast in your kitchen 24/7 365 days a year, and because they take 8 hours to cool down and heat up you can't really turn them off unless you have another means of cooking. There isn't much of a market for them right now as you can imagine but there's still companies out there that would come and dismantle it and take it away if you let them keep the bits to sell for spares. Best case they'll come and do it free (2 hour job), worst you're probably looking at a couple of hundred £. But sacking it off and replacing it with a 'normal' cooker would probably pay back in month 2 or 3 depending on what she got in its place. Not to mention not being unbearably hot in summer and better for the planet.
My parents took their 30 year old Gas one out in May, their usage went down 85% in the summer months, saved them about £200 a month. Won't be quite as drastic in winter as it was also heating the house. |
I think my mother's oil consumption was near on £5k after filling up the other week.
You're spot on though, the AGA is essentially on all day every day even when no heating needed.
She's got a steam oven and induction hob too, but never uses them and never listened to us a few years ago about changing how she at least cooked so didn't have it on in the summer.
House is 4 bed and about 300 years old, generally had lots of damp issues too which have cost tens of thousands to sort (we hope they're now done!)
Her only blessing is that she has a 5ft dia well which is 50ft deep which has watered her garden all summer saving on the water meter costs lol! |  | | |
| Energy price cap. on 16:48 - Sep 8 with 354 views | TractorBrew |
| Energy price cap. on 12:36 - Sep 8 by clive_baker |
Its up a lot against last year but I also tell myself that a 'normal' gas price was about 65p a litre pre Covid. So while I'm paying 95p now, that's broadly +50% on those levels. We've also benefitted from a year or more in 2020 - 2021 where it dropped. I filled my tank right up for about 30p a litre when we locked down the first time. I'm still not 'breaking even' vs. pre Covid prices, but when I look at the fluctation in both directions, by the time we get to Spring 2023 that last 3 year period might perhaps 'only' have cost 30% ish more than vs. 2019 prices. |
I think I squeezed in a top up at around 20p a litre at peak covid, so you are right there! I think overall oil users (except Aga users it seems) can actually end up better off at the moment
Need to fill up, wishing I had done last week when i was offered 82p... |  | | |
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| Energy price cap. on 19:06 - Sep 8 with 317 views | Swansea_Blue |
Say what you like about Truss (and there’s much to criticise, and I expect her to be hopeless), but she’s done more here in 24 hours than the last buffoon managed all summer. It may turn out to be a turd coated in glitter when we pay it back later, but this will make a big difference to millions through this winter (although many will have already struggled with the price cap rises so far, so we’re still a lot worse off than we were 6 months ago). |  |
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