WTH?
This is total madness, FIFTH price hike from Electric Ireland since the beginning of 2021. EI’s parent group - ESB - recorded €680m profit in 2021.
I genuinely do not know how any of us apart from the super-rich will survive this winter.
What is the government doing apart from sitting on their hands?
It will be interesting to view each of these companies revenue reports next year, none of them should be showing any percentage of profit out of expected or forecasted, and if they are, then they have lied to their customers about how much burden they actually absorbed themselves.
It has several great advantages over other energy sources. Especially for remote living. One bottle lasts me 3 months and i have no electric kettle so that is all water heating as well as cooking..fine for me and cost-effective. No way would i ever again be all-electric. And the turf stove is not lit in summer..
Thats not a change in public opinion, its a completely unscientific reader poll on journal.ie.
Come back to me with properly undertaken polling numbers and we'll talk.
Has anyone on here actually gone for planning for a 15kw system. Guessing you're looking at 30 Square metres. My roof would take it but it might look a bit odd. Have never seen a system that big on a house. I have geothermal and an electric car so I'd need that kind of size to be completely self sufficient
How much battery storage are you planning?
Honestly none at the moment. Why she'll out on battery when I can sell surplus to grid? I have enough hardware that requires maintenance. My car will essentially be my battery. Batteries will get much cheaper in few years. Id rather put the money in panels right now
You don’t need to meet anywhere. If enough customers just cancel their direct debits and refuse to pay the companies will have a change of mind. People need to face them down.
Liam are you sure you can sell surplus power to the grid?
I think a 400 watt panel is about 2 x 1 metre in which case you'd need 80 square metres for 16 kWp. There is someone on the renewables forum who has a system approx that size. You might need 3 phase or more than one inverter if on single phase.
The point is that large solar arrays are feasible in Ireland, Lots of big houses, bungalows with large roof area, space for ground arrays etc. Yet we've been stuck with a miserable 12 sq metres planning exempt limit for years. Now it is finally changing - in the middle of an energy and cost of living crisis. People are in panic mode, solar installers are swamped, plenty of cowboys about, higher building costs etc.
Putin bot.
This time what's good for the goose will have to be good for the gander. The taxpayer can't be expected to bail out private companies after they've rode us bareback with profiteering. The same should have been done to the banks in 08/09. Profit is never socialised but debt always seems to be....
CEO of Airtricity who also recently wheeled out a price increase cart is on a whopping £5 million a year. These pricks are only pure laughing at us from the comfort of their superyachts
We won't allow a nuclear power plant to be built yet have no problem taking nuclear generated electricity from the UK and France. In addition they won't allow a LNG terminal to be built for fear of fracked gas being shipped through it yet Centrica (Bord Gais owners) have signed a deal to purchase fracked gas coming through the UK gas network which will then be pumped on to us ...
https://www.centrica.com/media-centre/news/2022/centrica-signs-lng-heads-of-agreement-with-delfin/
£1 per kWh!
I've seen that 28% estimate from a few years ago, well it was at least 28%.
Yet the majority of websites say that the saving is much more than that e.g. 5 kWh per load for a C rated vented dryer vs 2 kWh per load for an A++ rated heat pump dryer. If someone was drying several loads per week the heat pump dryer would pay for itself within a short number of years. Even if replacing a working existing dryer with a new one. If the old dryer needed replacement anyway then spending 400 on a heat pump one vs 200 on a vented one would be a no brainer.
They will just cut off your supply eventually.
How will that help anyone?
Unfortunately, yes... They'll all say yes until they catch wind it's being built down the road from them and then we're into the long road of appeals.
Like datacentres - everyone wants what they provide but if they'd just feck off and use some other country's electricity grid, ta very much.
Yep... Time to think of ways to use less electricity? More constructive
So if he was paid less, then, in some bizzare way known only to the members of Club Kneejerk, the global price of gas would reduce?
Your logic intrigues me and I would like to subscribe to whatever social media outlet you run. Please post the details here.
am i right in saying that these hikes are approved by the government ? or did i hear that wrong ?
Every bit that he gets paid has to come from the customers and it's unlikely that he is the only high paid staffer there. I'm not a fan of social media so no outlet for you to join, sorry to disappoint
Bord Gáis to increase average electricity bill to increase by 34%, gas to go up by 39%
Lol, its a clown show.
Electricity pricing is unregulated in Ireland.
The companies can pretty much charge what they like and the market ultimately dictates the end price for the consumer.
Every cent you earn and every cent you save. They're coming for it all.
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
At two loads a week, that's 7.1 years to just break even on the difference in cost, that's assuming you never hang washing outside on a line. I think your save money condenser dryer will die before you see a saving, if you do hang washing on a line occassionally.
If enough did it in an organised way they won’t be cut off. If there are no protests then the cost will keep rising. Watch this space. Three big rises already this year.
Put in about 2kw of solar this summer. Sorry already I didn't go the whole hog and put in 5 or 6kw
A question.
Due to past overcargning ( remote area and few meter readings) I am now well over E200 in credit.. so I will lose on that?
I have something completely unobtainable today - a hob that has two gas rings and two induction zones. The gas comes from a bottle. I use the gas as little as possible because the induction is better to cook with than gas and is a lot cheaper, but when the power is out, or I am using a wok, the gas is the biz.
I am not against bottled gas, it's just that it is expensive. It is great for remote living, as I have experience of that also.
Protests will make no difference. Watching to see if the support for the vulnerable will be honoured and increased, else many more eg older folk at risk this winter.
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