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Heating and cooling: OFGEM says how to save money

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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2015
     
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/11385867/Ofgem-criticised-for-patronising-money-saving-advice.html

    Think they have got it in perspective. They should also say that housing is too expensive.
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    100% "on the money"
    The sheeple will not like it though, nay verily, they will resent such sage finincial advice.
    • CommentAuthorCWatters
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2015 edited
     
    Ofgem suggest ditching gym membership while the NHS is encouraging you to go to the gym by giving out free gym passes...

    http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/fitness/pages/free-fitness.aspx#passes

    Got to love joined up government.
    • CommentAuthorrhamdu
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2015
     
    It's not bad advice. They could have added 'easy on the beer and fags' or 'cycle to work instead of driving' or 'try this tasty quinoa bake with kale pesto, instead of a takeaway curry'.

    But it is patronising, irritating, and nothing to do with Ofgem's job. It reinforces the impression that Ofgem is a mouthpiece for the utilities. What I hear is "shut up and pay the frigging bill".
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    OR; turn the thermostat back!
    or
    pay the bill for the heat one knew one was consuming.
    simples.
    • CommentAuthorCWatters
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2015
     
    ..or switch to heating oil now that it's cheaper than mains gas according to the BBC today ;-)
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2015
     
    We could make it even cheaper if we traded oil in Euros too.
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2015
     
    Not so long ago LPG was the cheap alternative to oil. Maybe every house should have 4 different systems, and switch between as relative prices fluctuate (as they do).
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2015 edited
     
    Posted By: SteamyTeaWe could make it even cheaper if we traded oil in Euros too
    No chance - 'earnings' on the world's deposits to settle oil-payment balances, held exclusively in dollars, is what keeps the US military budget afloat. Attempted projects so far, to set up direct settlement of oil debts in alternative currencies, bypassing the dollar, are deeply and fundamentally threatening to US hegemony.
    Euros (incl 'Eurodollars') role is not as deposits but as the 'out there' currency that's devoted to Wall Street/City of London's third-world non-oil asset-stripping.
    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2015
     
    Posted By: fostertomMaybe every house should have 4 different systems, and switch between as relative prices fluctuate (as they do).
    This flexibility is an advantage of electric heating. Sort of a tie breaker when the choice is between 90% efficient gas or 35% efficient electricity generation from gas, 7% transmission losses and a heatpump with a COP of 2.765.
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2015
     
    The IEEE has already stated that they want domestic energy to be totally electric. That way any 'clean up' can be done more easily. Takes the problem out of the hands of the lazy/uneducated. And I don't mean that in a nasty way.

    Just been around a house that is paying £160/month, split evenly between gas and electric.
    Found the new gas boiler was on permanently, all the TRVs set to maximum, two old CRT TVs, one on. Two freezers, and kitchen extractor fan on to try and cool the place down.
    Shall see what an hours tinkering does to the usage.
    • CommentAuthorringi
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2015
     
    SteamyTea

    Sometimes it takes a brain transplant, are you quality to do it......
    • CommentAuthorrhamdu
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2015
     
    Posted By: SteamyTeaThe IEEE has already stated that they want domestic energy to be totally electric.


    That's America's IEEE, right? UK has a huge investment in gas infrastructure and we'd need to invest a lot in electricity infrastructure if everyone switched to electric heating.

    The Centre for Alternative Technology, in its Zero Carbon Britain plan (http://zerocarbonbritain.org/) suggests we should stay with gas, but make it from biological feedstock with a big input of (renewable) electrical energy. Think of all the problems that would solve...
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    Posted By: SteamyTeaThe IEEE has already stated that they want domestic energy to be totally electric.

    No chance they could be biased............is there:shocked::shocked:
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2015
     
    No the UK, was in their Power Engineer comic a while back.

    CAT worries me, I think I preferred it when it was partner swapping hippies, and I did not think much to it then.
    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2015
     
    IEE = (British) Institution of Electrical Engineers, now part of the IET. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution_of_Electrical_Engineers

    IEEE = (American) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2015
     
    :shamed:
    It was the British one.

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