#Petition #VAT #EnergyBill

https://www.change.org/p/scrap-the-vat-on-domestic-energy-bills

The Best Time Of Day To Do #Laundry If You Want To Lower Your #EnergyBill

https://www.southernliving.com/best-time-of-day-to-do-laundry-to-lower-energy-bill-11797035

Why your #energybill is suddenly so much more #expensive

https://grist.org/energy/why-your-energy-bill-is-suddenly-so-much-more-expensive/

I promised a blog post about how much it cost to heat our home in winter with heat pump vs. gas. Also about the much improved insulation. Here it is:

http://davidhembrow.blogspot.com/2024/04/relative-cost-of-heating-with-heat-pump.html

To summarise: In the worst case, our CO2 emissions are reduced by 95% vs. burning gas, we have no heating bill at all any more, and our home was warmer than before.

#VanHetGasAf #HeatPump #Insulation #EnergyBill #Heating #EnergyCost #CO2Budget #ZeroCO2Emission #EnergyEfficiency

We just received our "jaarafrekening". This is the final yearly invoice sent by our energy company. They are about to pay us €252, and we will continue to pay them €5 per month next year, just like last year. i.e. overall our energy company is paying us about €200 for last year's electricity. Everything in our home is powered by electricity. No gas connection. No wood burner.

Nothing that we've done to achieve a negative energy bill was especially expensive. In particular, our installation of a air-air heat pump and a couple of extra solar panels cost far less than several of our neighbours paid for the wood burning stoves they've installed, which stink up the neighbourhood all through winter.

We also don't have to buy wood to burn.

People concerned about the cost of heating with gas buy woodburners at a higher rate than heat pumps largely because they have no idea about the relative costs. If they knew, perhaps we could have clean air.

I'll write a comprehensive blog post at the end of March about energy consumption, costs & emissions due to the heatpump vs. gas this winter. I can tell you already that we using a *lot* less total energy now.

Read more:
https://davidhembrow.blogspot.com/search/label/house
#gas #vanhetgasaf #jaarafrekening #energybill #energycost #nulopdemeter #heatpump #warmtepomp #costofliving

#英國國會 正在審議《能源法案》（#EnergyBill），有議員提出修訂案，要求確保參與大型基建工程的太陽能企業，其供應鍊不涉 #強迫勞動，劍指新疆太陽能產業的強迫勞動情況。海外 #維吾爾 社群及人權組織聯署支持修訂案，促請英國政府阻止涉及強迫勞動的產品流入英國供應鍊https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/junshiwaijiao/g-09072023134658.html https://nitter.hongkongers.net/RFA_Chinese/status/1699852646117429351#m

I have just opened my #energybill from EDF. It seems the subsidies have stopped, and this is more than last year. It seems we have stopped talking and thinking about the #riggedphantomenergymarket. I am not helped by the crapness of my realtime monitor's connection to the so-called smartmeter although I have just installed #loop on my phone.

Wholesale #NaturalGas is 12.5 times cheaper this morning than it was in August, cheaper than it was more than 2 years ago.

From July, your #EnergyBill will be 80% higher than it was 2 years ago.

The price you pay has soared.
The price they pay has collapsed.
A clear rip off.

RT @natalieben: What does winning a vote in #HouseofLords look like? My second experience - inserting #CommunityEnergy into #EnergyBill. Maybe this time we can keep in Commons! https://t.co/wDlvIXUWyl

RT @natalieben: What does winning a vote in #HouseofLords look like? My second experience - inserting #CommunityEnergy into #EnergyBill. Maybe this time we can keep in Commons! https://t.co/wDlvIXUWyl

The House of Lords did indeed scrap plans to let #energy firms force households to move to hydrogen and make bill payers pick up the cost.
Let's hope MPs see sense and refuse to let these clauses come back into the #EnergyBill when it comes to the Commons.
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/business/scrap-gas-networks-right-to-forcibly-enter-homes-campaigners-tell-peers-b2319772.html

RT @natalieben: #GoodNews WIN!

Government defeated - #CommunityEnergy inserted into #EnergyBill 197-186

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1648051086417182720

#ClimateDiary An amendment to the #energybill currently going through the #HouseofLords means that it will not be possible to open a new #coalmine in England.

The amendment may still be reversed in the House of Commons, but it marks the growing frustration of politicians as they press the government to move faster and harder on the climate crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/17/lords-amendment-to-energy-bill-may-stop-new-coalmines-in-england

This weekend I worked on building supports for two new solar panels on our garage roof and today with very much appreciated help from @twilwel they were installed on our roof. There's a new blog post about that here:
https://davidhembrow.blogspot.com/2023/04/more-more-solar-panels-do-we-now-have.html
#solar #solarpower #energy #energyprice #energybill #vanhetgasaf

Given recent events, there is simply no way the Government should be looking to increase #energy firms' powers of forced entry through the #EnergyBill.

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/scrap-gas-networks-right-to-forcibly-enter-homes-campaigners-tell-peers-b1074123.html