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Posted By: JontiYou really should do the posters here the courtesy of making your connections with the energy companies clear.Could you point to some reason to think ST has any connections with energy companies? My impression from conversations here over a number of years and some separate brief email conversations with him is that, if he does, they're very minor and incidental.
Posted By: JontiDid your reduction come just because you stopped using as much energy25 to 30% was just better management, the rest has been draught excluding, about £50, new glazing, about £200 (but changed when I painted and straightened the frames, Estate Agent said I would need new plastic windows as the current ones were "rotten", the frames where fine) and about £100 on some more loft insulation. I suspect the biggest difference was using a washing line, £2, though I have bought at least £4 of extra pegs since (remember I am in the wettest county in the England).
Posted By: Jontihypothetically, what could your lodger do if required to cut electrical consumption by a third but not be allowed to alter the building substance in any way?That one is simple to answer, and also saved me £1500 on water. She now takes shorter showers rather than stand there until the water runs cold. Took a bit of doing (an OU course in Science and Mathematics brought it home to her). She does not fill the kettle to the brim any more (makes her life easier as she only has one functioning arm). She also does not sit next to an open window when the air gets cold (her rooms gets the morning sun). She has also learnt not to leave the bathroom light on, which works the extractor and sucks the warm air out the house, she only puts a full load of washing in (and runs it at night) rather than puts a days worth of clothes in at a time.
), has been modified with simpler recipes that only take a pan or two, or the oven, rather than every ring, both ovens, the kettle, all the utensils, every bit of cutlery, all 5 sharp knives and the teaspoons she has not thrown away with the yoghurt pot, though not sure why she tries to eat yoghurt I don't know, as most of it ends up on the wall when she pulls the foil top off!Posted By: Jontiit is a sad world when there is no room for free thinking and standing by itYes it is, but look what happened to Mary Beard

Posted By: Jontiyou could also say all you have done is improve on your households wasteful lifestyle you were leadingThat is right, I was wasteful, but not so wasteful that my house was out of the range of normality.
Posted By: JontiBut what if they are already so efficient there is no slack?I covered that with
Posted By: SteamyTea(if someone uses so little energy, say 300 quid a year they cannot be in fuel poverty as even the dole pays enough to cover that)Marko covered it a bit stronger too
Posted By: markocosicThen their bills are inconsequential already. Or they're complaining that they can't afford their lifestyle, not that the bills for their lifestyle are outrageous.
Posted By: Jontiand 25%-30% came about because you could alter the building which many landlords won't allow.No, that can be brought about with better management, I cannot make that saving again though management. Covered it in my reply about my lodger
Posted By: SteamyTeaThat one is simple to answer, and also saved me £1500 on water.and so forth. That is what management does.
Posted By: bxmanI think you must be very lucky how did you manage it ?By not locking myself into any 'deal'. Over the years I have had the standard tariff except when I first moved in and I was on a 'green tariff' though SWEB. EDF took over SWEB and that deal was automatically dropped and a strange multi tiered tariff for E7 users was introduced (it was this that made me look closely at my usage and the times that the E7 kicked in). There was then a period of energy prices and billing going a bit haywire (about 2008/9/10) until EDF did what all energy companies are now doing and have a simplified billing system of a standing charge and in the case of E7, just two rates, Day and Night.
Posted By: bxmanThe other major problem is the creation of effective short term energy storage the whole success of Renewable Energy is dependent on it.Yes, this is a problem and a costly one in both efficiency and cash terms.
Posted By: JontiST,
You say unit price but what about total bill. Is your bill only 15% higher than the lowest possible bill 8 years ago. I could quite easily claim that my bill has increased by over 20,000% in the last three years at my current property which although entirely true is not wholly honest as three years ago the property was in my name but empty on a non standing charge tariff. Cherry picking of facts always lessens the stand point not strengthen.
Jonti

Posted By: SteamyTeaWent to the EU stats site to get some data about prices, quite interesting that low user price have not risen as fast as high user prices in the UK.Not as fast but still far higher (if I read the graphs right).
Posted By: JontiWhat is the difference in price % between what you pay now and the cheapest tariff available 8 years ago.I have no ideas what the cheapest tariff was 8 years ago, so I cannot comment on that.
Posted By: JontiAre you really claiming that light for like tariffs have only gone up 11% in 8 years?No I am not claim that all tariffs have only gone up 11% in the last 8 years. What I am claiming is that my unit price has changed by that amount (actually claimed 12 to 15%) for all the reasons I stated earlier, mainly that I was paying higher than average at the start, the unit price was tiered which I did not take much advantage of and there was no standing charge at that time making the apparent unit price higher.
Posted By: SteamyTeaI am comparing my bills (in this instance) and then comparing that against the EU stats data, which shows a similar pattern.

Posted By: markocosicYes they can if they're the ones re-selling the energyPretty sure that the law was changed on this last year or the year before. Different for 'boarders', they come under a totally different set of rules now.
Posted By: GarethCHave you discussed rising block tariffs on this forum?Yes, and TEQs, Cap and Trade and a few other mad cap schemes.

Posted By: SteamyTeaLandlords cannot stipulate who the energy provider isThey can make this a condition of the lease that the provider may not be changed. You can though select a tariff from that provider.