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More increases in electricity bills?

AJJewsbury

"Analysts told the BBC that local distributors and suppliers are moving charges which were once part of a consumer's unit price for energy (which now has a tight upper limit on it) over to their standing charge. They are also increasing standing charges to the maximum level for each region, which means a big jump for some places."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60878314

   - Andy.

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  • I do wish these threads didn't magically jump between Forums without leaving a trace behind of where they've gone to - makes finding them again much more difficult than it need be :-(

    anyhow...

    And how much energy was produced last week by wind?

    3% and you're suggesting we need more turbines!

    25% of our energy bills go to unreliables.

    We can be self sufficient with the right policies in place

    Yes, the last week or so has been part of the "hard 20%" - no argument there. But I don't see that as a good reason to burn gas (or anything else for that matter) unnecessarily for the other 80% of the time. The more we generate from wind (and solar, tidal, hydro and bio) the less gas we use, the less dependent we are on imports.

    Bills have just increasing by 54% simply due to the increased wholesale cost of gas.

    I agree that changes in policy can help, but I gather that UK North Sea gas can only supply about 40% of our needs at the moment - with another 40% imported from Norway and the remaining 20% comes as LNG by ship from further away. UK coal production is non-existent. Nuclear takes decades to build. How can we hope to be self-sufficient in even the medium term without renewables?

       - Andy.

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  • I do wish these threads didn't magically jump between Forums without leaving a trace behind of where they've gone to - makes finding them again much more difficult than it need be :-(

    anyhow...

    And how much energy was produced last week by wind?

    3% and you're suggesting we need more turbines!

    25% of our energy bills go to unreliables.

    We can be self sufficient with the right policies in place

    Yes, the last week or so has been part of the "hard 20%" - no argument there. But I don't see that as a good reason to burn gas (or anything else for that matter) unnecessarily for the other 80% of the time. The more we generate from wind (and solar, tidal, hydro and bio) the less gas we use, the less dependent we are on imports.

    Bills have just increasing by 54% simply due to the increased wholesale cost of gas.

    I agree that changes in policy can help, but I gather that UK North Sea gas can only supply about 40% of our needs at the moment - with another 40% imported from Norway and the remaining 20% comes as LNG by ship from further away. UK coal production is non-existent. Nuclear takes decades to build. How can we hope to be self-sufficient in even the medium term without renewables?

       - Andy.

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  • in reply to AJJewsbury

    We probably need a mix to be self sufficient.

    The energy policy mistakes were made decade's ago. Driven by Green fanatics. Now the *** has hit the fan common sense energy policy will kick in, hopefully. Yes there is room for all types of generation but at a common sense price.

    I doubt anything sensible will happen, I wait to be surprised.

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