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Morally I’d say it’s a grey area depending on who from. Robin Hood and all that.

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I will. I need a bit of time.

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If you're starving is it wrong to steal bread, I'd say no but what if you don't like bread, what if you like electricity, aaaannnnndddd the defence rests

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Ever the nerd, I love this site - https://gridwatch.co.uk/ You can see how much electricity the country is currently (arf!) using and how it is generated. As of 1645 today, 37% of our electricity comes from wind power while 31% comes from gas. I was surprised how much solar we had in the UK. At it’s peak, 3% of our electricity needs were met by solar power today. Not bad for a murky day..

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But look at the longer term figures. There are times when wind power has dropped to a tenth of that.
An added complication is that although it is called a national grid, there can be localised shortages.
Eg This July

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Thanks for a timely reminder for January when we see who faces blackouts.

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Oh, without a doubt, the issue with wind is it depends on the weather of course. However, it is certainly a useful buffer, reducing gas usage at least some of the time. The localisation thing is a good point, I have seen the UK both import and export electricity at the same time in the past.

The worst case over the coming months would be a ‘beast from the east’ situation where we have high pressure and no wind with clear skies and so freezing cold

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Has anyone had their next Energy Support payment yet? Bulb isn't as quick as last time for me.

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Three months in my new house and I still haven’t had any contract paperwork from Scottish Power. You can be sure, when they do eventually start billing me, that if they bill me back to my move in date I’ll be checking that the discounts are correctly applied for all the months they should be …

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According to the Bulb website ;

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Not had mine from Octopus yet either.

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I got an email from Bulb today saying they have credited my account with the latest payment

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The first one we got on the 8th of October so l would expect the next one will probably be next week.

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