I think the regs can become so complicated that inexperienced sparkies can misinterpret them and cost their customers money. The unscrupulous can also misuse them, especially around diversity calculations…. induction cooker fitting jobs anyone….

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Not sure if this has been talked about, but I was chatting to someone I know who owns 8 petrol stations, and simply because of two factors, a) they work on a GP% and b) there is no longer any competition, he is making an absolute fortune.
With there only being a small handful of gas and electric suppliers, what incentive, or stick is there to force them to lower prices. This is then added to the government collecting taxes based on % so simply the higher the price to consumers the more goes in to the coffers

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    dfk41 So, we are stuck with Newton’s first law of motion and the law of gravity (=falling apple) will remain an illusion at least in our life time?

        On the news!! three London boroughs cannot build anymore houses for a decade / 2035

        because the data centres in the area have taken up all the available power supplies and it will take a decade to upgrade the infrastructure.

        Apparently data centres use more power than thousands of homes.

        Hillingdon , Healing and Hounslow.

        I wonder if the data centres are worried about the rising prices🤣

          Elcarajillo I used to work in a data centre in the Docklands area of London, which had more backup generator capacity than the whole of the island of Malta. Just one building!

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            It’s quite incredible how much energy is used up by data centres, cloud storage, the internet etc. You never hear this talked about anywhere. Funny that

              Elcarajillo Wouldn’t be surprised if it lasts longer. That stretch is such a prime area for DCs there’s a lot of land already bought waiting for the power to come along.

              Bagging capacity is big business, they’ll be watching like hawks until the right time.

                Two Days. Up £40 a month.

                This is over double what we are paying at the moment.

                So the price cap will go up (based on info today) to approx. £3,500 a year from October. An 80% increase on our projected annual cost is a little under £4,600 projected annual.

                Not worth fixing I don’t think.

                Martin Lewis says don’t fix unless the offered price is less than 70/75% of your current rate. It is the best I have got to go on.

                  @DavecUK do share.

                  Need to save all we can

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