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4 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Wind energy  !!! The biggest most expensive stand alone mistake we are making. 

non sequitur but at least you didn't bring the curse into it, apart from that we of course differ. My gripe with all this RE is that we let the bankers decide, albeit indirectly, that we didn't do it ourselves.

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2 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

non sequitur but at least you didn't bring the curse into it, apart from that we of course differ. My gripe with all this RE is that we let the bankers decide, albeit indirectly, that we didn't do it ourselves.

I may have griped about the last part of your post occasionally in the past 🤔

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12 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

I may have griped about the last part of your post occasionally in the past 🤔

Yes and we agree about that, this russian atrocity has just proven that we can never be one big happy family and should have certain strategic industries that remain free of foreign control. Bearing in mind the french government totally own the  company in charge of building new nuclear power stations here and their pettiness over brexit and launching rubber boats here.

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I don't have a smart meter, but I think it will get harder to remain on the grid without one. The thin end of the wedge is offering a slightly better rate if you have a smart meter.

Then once you have one, you get offered cheap electricity at times when there is plenty. The flip side of that is you pay a much higher price at times of peak demand.

 

I'm sure it's coming, and I think it's sad there will be a time when the little old lady is eating her dinner at 1am as she can't afford to cook it at a normal time.

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SIL in Suffolk is on a key meter (old style), display went tits up, contacted their supplier, it would take an engineer a month to come and change the meter. Options were you can have an old style prepayment meter but it will cost you £170 for this option or a new smart prepayment meter for free. They decided after grumbling a lot to have a  smart meter fitted and this was duly arranged for the 18th of December.

They got a call to say date was going to change to an earlier one, fitter arrived had a look at their meter went into van took out replacement meter an old style non smart one and fitted it. They got a free month of electricity and £35 for a failed planned meeting and £100 credit on meter for free. Very strange affair.

 

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