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Scottish Power, useless. Smart meter installed by EDF, worked fine. The display unit is in a box somewhere. Changed supplier to Scottish Power. They can't connect with the Smart meter. I send in meter readings, a high and a low, via their website.
Fixed tariff ended at end of May. I tried to send the meter readings. The meter now only displays one reading. Website won't accept one reading, needs two.
On the phone, please send a picture of meter. Done. Please send a picture of installer's card next to meter. Done. Please send a picture of 'the other meter'. I have only ever had one.
I now enter an official complaint.
First reply to my complaint is gibberish.
Second reply, from second person, states if I don't reply within 14 days the complaint will be closed.
Third reply from third person, 'I am taking ownership of your complaint'.
Fourth reply from fourth person, 'I am taking ownership of your complaint'.
In February 2022 they managed to get a reading directly from the Smart meter, the one and only time.
I've now written to the CEO of Scottish Power.
And they have put up my monthly direct debit from £125 to £485! 485 bloody pounds! Per month!
I really do despair.
Fixed tariff ended at end of May. I tried to send the meter readings. The meter now only displays one reading. Website won't accept one reading, needs two.
On the phone, please send a picture of meter. Done. Please send a picture of installer's card next to meter. Done. Please send a picture of 'the other meter'. I have only ever had one.
I now enter an official complaint.
First reply to my complaint is gibberish.
Second reply, from second person, states if I don't reply within 14 days the complaint will be closed.
Third reply from third person, 'I am taking ownership of your complaint'.
Fourth reply from fourth person, 'I am taking ownership of your complaint'.
In February 2022 they managed to get a reading directly from the Smart meter, the one and only time.
I've now written to the CEO of Scottish Power.
And they have put up my monthly direct debit from £125 to £485! 485 bloody pounds! Per month!
I really do despair.
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My fixed deal comes to an end with them in October. Looking forward to that based on what you’re saying ….
On a related note is anyone managing to find “deals” at present ? All the usual suspects seem to be saying we can’t compare meerkats at the moment … ? Not sure what happens to my pricing when fixed runs out ??
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A lot of UK electricity is producing by burning gas...
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Yes. Hottest day if the year 8am gas is producing 60% of our electricity needs. I guess PV will pick up later in the day but probably not going to get much wind today....
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I was at Spurn Point yesterday, overlooks the Dogger Bank windfarm. Never seems to stop moving which is why I think it is there
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Having a small bit of solar or other generation really helps you get into the mindset of load spreading. With it, for example, there's a small incentive for me to wait a minute for the kettle to boil before I pop the toast down. With a flat rate price, there's no incentive to bother at all. Juggling stuff around, whether manually or automatically, is likely something we're all going to have to get on board with. Or pay for the privilege not to.
Not looking forward to the current contract running out.
Not looking forward to the current contract running out.
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Gunfleet Sands looked to be doing quite well on Saturday, and to anyone who thinks they're unsightly, an offshore windfarm has got to be the best thing about Clacton.
The World has spent literally Trillions on renewables in the last 15 years.
In the 1970s 80% of the World's energy came from fossil fuels. Today 80% of the World's energy STILL comes from fossil fuels
So what exactly has been achieved?
And for the people who keep thinking battery storage is the answer at this precise moment we would need 38 of the massive Australia size batteries for just 1 hour of electricity. In Winter to cover us for say a 10 day wind lull - which happens most winters - we would need 13,500 of the World's biggest batteries. That would cost £810 billion quid
In the 1970s 80% of the World's energy came from fossil fuels. Today 80% of the World's energy STILL comes from fossil fuels
So what exactly has been achieved?
And for the people who keep thinking battery storage is the answer at this precise moment we would need 38 of the massive Australia size batteries for just 1 hour of electricity. In Winter to cover us for say a 10 day wind lull - which happens most winters - we would need 13,500 of the World's biggest batteries. That would cost £810 billion quid
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I do agree with some of your points but we do use roughly three times as much energy worldwide now as we did in 1980, so without increasing renewables it would be considerably more than 80%The World has spent literally Trillions on renewables in the last 15 years.
In the 1970s 80% of the World's energy came from fossil fuels. Today 80% of the World's energy STILL comes from fossil fuels
So what exactly has been achieved?
And for the people who keep thinking battery storage is the answer at this precise moment we would need 38 of the massive Australia size batteries for just 1 hour of electricity. In Winter to cover us for say a 10 day wind lull - which happens most winters - we would need 13,500 of the World's biggest batteries. That would cost £810 billion quid
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I'm buying some Solar PV for the farm, just working out where to stick it and how big. It will be DIY job. I have been using Victron solar chargers/panels on the trailer but think I may be paying for the brand name so will have a look around at panels and controllers while I'm at it.
We had the answer in the 1950s- the World's first commercial nuclear power station. Madness it has been ignored for so long.
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No, I totally agree. And I live in an area designated for a new GDF
For home users solar is a good idea with leccy prices at 30p kw/h. Commercial farms just make my blood boil though. To compete with gas they would need to be able to generate at less than 10p per kw/h at the moment which will never happen - when Putin pops his clogs gas will be down to 4p per kw/h again which shows just how expensive solar farms really are.
A mate of mine lives right by an old quarry where they used to dump toxic waste. He always used to complain about it. Then they cleared the quarry and have built 300 new houses there. Many of them right up to his back garden wall. He has lost his lovely view and his privacy.
Now he wished the waste was back
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There's a big uproar here obviously, but they have to put it somewhere and they are choosing the best, safest places. It's over 1km deep under solid rock and most of it goes under the sea.A mate of mine lives right by an old quarry where they used to dump toxic waste. He always used to complain about it. Then they cleared the quarry and have built 300 new houses there. Many of them right up to his back garden wall. He has lost his lovely view and his privacy.
Now he wished the waste was back
Don't get me wrong, when it is finally built (estimated ten years) I probably will have moved long before then but I would be happy to live here with it there.
So would I.
To give you an idea of just how closely monitored things are these days there was a radiation scare on a beach near the Windscale/Sellafield plant. One of the radiation detectors had triggered. They searched for days until they found the source. Part of a compass dial from a Lancaster bomber! Remember people used to wear luminous watches on their wrists once upon a time. Myself included as a kid
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I dont disagree but why choose an area thats a major flood risk? the fact the council is getting a major bung out of it could be a good reason! you struggle to get planning on houses around here because of the flood risk, what happens when it does flood and they cant get near the site?
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True, and no doubt we will see no improvements with the cash
Yes I am a big fan of nuclear power. I did a combined Physics degree many moons ago so I am not terrified of the word nuclear!
Obviously our newer nuclear reactors are imported technology. Not surprising since Gordon Brown sold off Westinghouse and we have invested virtually nothing in nuclear technology for decades! The sooner the Rolls Royce SMRs are up and running the better.
Why is our leccy more expensive than it has ever been? Spending billions on intermittent power generation may have something to do with it.
I would love wind power IF there was a way of storing it. There isn't - not sensibly.
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