Energy chat

[gthang]

Around 15 years ago I spent a good number of days working at the South Hook LNG terminal as it was under construction.

The scale of the place was and still is quite staggering really, especially when you consider the volume of LNG they hold and its expansion ratio, which from memory is around 600 to 1.

[pbg]

@Valvebloke

Looking after us is not the markets’ job, of course

yeah, that’s arguably government’s job - to protect us from the markets’ worst tendencies… that’s going well too…

[browellm]

I consistently blow Octopus’ trumpet, but they are one of the few suppliers that offer a wholesale daily tracker tariff for gas. I jumped on to it last month and haven’t paid more than 4.8p/kWh and it has been as low as 2.8p/kWh.
My previous tariff was 7.3p/kWh

Obviously the risk is that you aren’t hedged in any way, but there’s no lock-in period at all to the tariff. Oh, I can provide a referral code too

Introducing Octopus Tracker: Britain's fairest energy tariff

[pbg]

Their website wont allow online switching to them - you have to phone them at the moment.

[browellm]

Yeah, I should have pointed that out. I had to ring them and I’m an existing customer.

[MGOwner]

As we recently found out, you can still use the referral code when applying over the phone.
It gets applied manually.

Mark and I are about to enter a Referral Code war

[gthang]

I also offer octopus referral codes.
My deal includes a £10 amazon voucher for you once the £50 is in my account.

[MrKettle]

And me. Every referral gets me a teensy bit closer to affording a proper milk float.

[omsoc]

Do they do a similar tracker for electricity?

[browellm]

You should give your codes to the others. I’ve had a couple.

EXCEPT I’M GIVING AWAY FREE PUPPIES AND GOLD BARS IF YOU SIGN UP WITH ME.

[browellm]

@omsoc

Do they do a similar tracker for electricity?

I think they do mate, but I haven’t paid a lot of attention to it because of the EV tariff I’m on.

[MrKettle]

@browellm

GOLD BARS

?

[omsoc]

Might just give them a call as I love puppies and gold bars.

[pmac]

@browellm

EXCEPT I’M GIVING AWAY FREE PUPPIES AND GOLD BARS IF YOU SIGN UP WITH ME.

You nearly had me there.

If only it had been gold puppies and bars we could have had a deal.

Ah well, maybe the next offer will tempt me.

[Jim]

Octopus here today to swap out both the lecky and gas for smart meters

[thebiglebowski]

@murrayjohnson

We have a LayZSpa inflatable tub.

The last couple of years we’ve put it on during the day, allowed the 3/4 ton of water within to get to 34 degrees C which is the temp we like, used it in the afternoon & or evening then turned it off. The insulation afforded by its inflated sides & inflatable cover means the temperature drops back to maybe 23-24 degrees by the next day & we can then put it on again to get back to 34 degrees.

LayZSpa themselves reckon it’s more efficient to leave the thermostatically controlled heater on & maintain the temp at 34 degrees all the time.

I’m trying to work out which might be more efficient.

Just drop a puffin billy in the hot tub and that’ll soon and have it nice and toasty

puffin billy

HOW NOT TO LIGHT A PUFFIN BILLY

[Kevin]

U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant.

[thebiglebowski]

More like “Romania to be test site for small nuclear reactors from new US startup company”

[Jim]

@Jim

Octopus here today to swap out both the lecky and gas for smart meters

Yay!..

[dom]

Just wait till you get your amps setup, maybe keep it in a different room the the hifi?