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If it is always blowing a gale then it is the best place for a windfarm surely.
A bigger one at Dogger Bank due to come online next year as outlined in the link.

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Shame we can't use all the hot air coming out of parliament. With a bit of care we could generate electricity and put a bit of extra heat in. Too much and they will doze off, especially their lordships. Or do we syphon it off to heat other buildings, clear the roads and chill the commons to generate more heat. Could almost be a perpetual motion machine. Feed in an edited selection of news, appropriate public statistics and get nice clean energy out. (Of course there is the other waste that comes out too that needs dealing with!)

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Good plan from OVO: https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsro...ten-point-plan

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Taking from the rich to give to the poor? Won't go down well in Toryland . Robin of Sherwood would approve though.

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Octopus make it clear they do not want the cap to rise next month

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No one is forcing them to put their prices up

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Probably the threat of bankruptcy if they don’t is focusing their mind - buying high selling at a loss is not a recipe for continuity…

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Despite your largely pointless quips, this is one where I was thinking the same.

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Point is the price cap does exactly that because the business without support would no longer be in business. I believe a number of suppliers went to the government with a package that would freeze prices but it was rejected

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The area that seems not to be getting the coverage it needs is the business sector. We have businesses folding now due to energy shocks. This will increase manifold as we go into Winter and Spring. When businesses comes to the end of their current contracts, they have to go back to the market where there is no price cap, they have to pay the market rate their broker can get for them.

There are reports of 1 in 7 pubs could close this Winter. Other higher energy use businesses also face major problems e.g. Fish and chip shops, Dry Cleaners, etc. This is happening now and this Government is AWOL. Frightening ..

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If the chippies close, the Govt will fall for sure. Bad potato harvest this year too.

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3chippies near me gone, it's all kebabs n pizza now.

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I was wrong, it is not 1 in 7 pubs that expect to close without financial help, it is 7 out of 10

Three quarters of pubs facing extinction

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Except that it has been reported that help is coming for businesses.

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Between now and then they can pay the bills with entrepreneurial spirit :rofl:

I have to say OB I admire how passive you are being, considering every business was on the verge of collapsing if there was even a two or three week delay in easing Covid restrictions.