Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Just received our £200 payment for using LPG instead of electrickery or gas.
It's ridiculous isn't it. Wholesale price of gas is right down for a while now. We're being totally fleeced.
But you can sleep soundly knowing that the dividend / bonus payments will be more than generous again this year........
I just checked our electricity usage. Over Jan and Feb we averaged around 7kWh per day, peaks of 12kWh. This is a 4 floor house, 2 fridges, 2 freezers, tumble dryer. Your tumble drier needs to be used sparingly, maybe you have several 50W halogen lights too? Electric heated floor?Just had our gas and electricity bill for the last quarter, £1170! There’s only 3 of us! £650 last year, quite a hike.
I don’t understand it, 16kwh a day average on electric, although we do use a tumble drier a fair bit. This is much higher than the average suggested in the media for a 4-5 bedroom house, not a 3 bed end terrace.
I just checked our electricity usage. Over Jan and Feb we averaged around 7kWh per day, peaks of 12kWh. This is a 4 floor house, 2 fridges, 2 freezers, tumble dryer. Your tumble drier needs to be used sparingly, maybe you have several 50W halogen lights too? Electric heated floor?
Interesting. We have a quite large Edwardian semi (4,000 sq ft, 4 floors, 6 bed, 2 bathrooms), our current 7kWh/day electricity usage includes electric oven, tumble drier, 2 fridges (not American sized), 1 freezer, 1 other freezer as part of a fridge.From our last bill we averaged 22.4kWh per day for electric (for a 5-bedroom detached) so those averages of 7 to 10 kWh per day seem quite low. Even in our cottage, when we're in it we average about 12kWh per day in the winter.
I doubt we will see it now they’ve got away with hiking the prices. I would like to know why we aren’t seeing the price come down. I mean, really know, not some crap and lies. They are killing people and killing the economy.Prices are falling,when will we see it?
Wholesale UK gas prices are now around 123.5p per therm - a unit of heat - down from highs of around 450p a therm in August 2022
Meanwhile wholesale electricity prices have dropped from 548p per megawatt hour in August 2022 to just 139p today.
Pssst. It's another scam.
"British Gas owner Centrica reports record annual profits of £2.8bn last year. Up seven-fold from £392m in 2021" https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1626118264479793152
This is where your massive gas bills are going.
Very much like Covid. Government money is syphoned off in the name of corporate profit.
Well, he has provided very sound advice for many years; saved people £000s or more over the years; been a worthwhile site for best return "high street" investments; given millions to charity.I see Martin Lewis is patting himself on the back all over the place as though we're all going to be better off. We lose the support payments and the standing charge goes up whilst unit rates barely come down a fraction of a penny. I don't need to be money saving expert to figure out that I'm worse off not better.
Living room varies between 11°C and 13°C.