Rising energy prices mitigation

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Here is ( or was) advice from an energy company if you cannot afford your heating.

Ovo Energy sorry over advice to cuddle pets to stay warm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59946622

Someone got paid for that. You couldn’t make it up! :lol:
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jansman wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 7:10 am Here is ( or was) advice from an energy company if you cannot afford your heating.

Ovo Energy sorry over advice to cuddle pets to stay warm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59946622

Someone got paid for that. You couldn’t make it up! :lol:
I got that email as I'm with SSE who are part of Ovo. I did a lot of :roll: :roll: :roll:
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Yes I heard that mentioned on the news today along with the recommendations to do star jumps and eat porridge. On one hand some of it has a certain amount of logic and sense, eating and wearing more , doing more physical activity and so on , it's basically what our ancestors did living in their largely unheated houses. However , perhaps it's a sense of entitlement , that some feel it's their right to be able to sit in their house in the depths of winter in a tee shirt and see this advice as patronising or condescending. With the wholesale rise in energy prices there are limited actions that can be taken. Pay more or use less. There does seem to be some who are basically calling for energy prices to be in effect subsidised by the government which I don't really see as a long term approach.
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jansman wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 7:10 am Here is ( or was) advice from an energy company if you cannot afford your heating.

Ovo Energy sorry over advice to cuddle pets to stay warm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59946622

Someone got paid for that. You couldn’t make it up! :lol:
Looks like we are on coal tonight :lol:
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I think compounding the general issue is that some of us are now working at home full time, and it's not practical to sit at your computer bundled up like a toddler in a snow suit. I need to be warm, comfortable and have full use of my arms so that I can actually write, type and move my mouse around! :lol:
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 7:14 pm
jansman wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 7:10 am Here is ( or was) advice from an energy company if you cannot afford your heating.

Ovo Energy sorry over advice to cuddle pets to stay warm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59946622

Someone got paid for that. You couldn’t make it up! :lol:
Looks like we are on coal tonight :lol:

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What are you looking at and do we need to be concerned?!
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grenfell wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 6:06 pm Yes I heard that mentioned on the news today along with the recommendations to do star jumps and eat porridge. On one hand some of it has a certain amount of logic and sense, eating and wearing more , doing more physical activity and so on , it's basically what our ancestors did living in their largely unheated houses. However , perhaps it's a sense of entitlement , that some feel it's their right to be able to sit in their house in the depths of winter in a tee shirt and see this advice as patronising or condescending. With the wholesale rise in energy prices there are limited actions that can be taken. Pay more or use less. There does seem to be some who are basically calling for energy prices to be in effect subsidised by the government which I don't really see as a long term approach.
Spot on.
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itsybitsy wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 7:17 pm
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 7:14 pm
jansman wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 7:10 am Here is ( or was) advice from an energy company if you cannot afford your heating.

Ovo Energy sorry over advice to cuddle pets to stay warm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59946622

Someone got paid for that. You couldn’t make it up! :lol:
Looks like we are on coal tonight :lol:

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What are you looking at and do we need to be concerned?!
Me and jansman had discussed the black start mothballed power stations before..


Coal = those dirty old power stations they are trying to close are currently held in reserve in use as there's a great big lump of high pressure over a good chunk of the UK and the windmills won't go round with no wind across the south . Until recently round here we were holding Eggbrough in reserve but that's now a pile of rubble .
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It's dark so solar does nothing..

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Be interesting tomorrow morning as demand starts to increase to see where the electric is coming from..
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If you get cashmere or anything from a mountaineering/hillwalking type shop then that will be light and very warm, not bulky.
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diamond lil wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 8:57 pm If you get cashmere or anything from a mountaineering/hillwalking type shop then that will be light and very warm, not bulky.
I'm going to see if I can get an inexpensive gilet, so I'm warm but my arms can breathe (and move :lol: ).