Warwick Michael Dumas wrote in message
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"anton" wrote in message
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Warwick Michael Dumas wrote in message
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I'm not saying there aren't plenty of practical steps which an
individual can take to reduce their impact on the environment, and
should. It doesn't really cost that much to use only renewable energy
at home - maybe 100 pounds a year, less than 0.1% of a typical
household income.
(sic)

Please explain this comment. How do you heat your home
and use electricity using only renewable energy for £100?

I'm assuming you wait until at least your boiler's knackered, so
there's not much opportunity cost involved in the one-off expenses of
making the switch to decent electric heating.

Dubious proposition 1.

Then given that renewable costs about 5% more (with
regional variations) and your
original electric bill might have been 200 pounds, the statement is
equivalent to saying that (the actual bills for) electric heating
might cost you about 86 pounds more than gas. So it looks like I'm
guessing that electric is about 50% more expensive, if someone's gas
heating bill might be of the order of 170. Hmm, sounds reasonable.


All sounds very low for a house. Are you talking about a flat?


I don't actually know because I haven't got around to actually doing
it yet, (even though this boiler certainly already looks like it's
seen better days!). It took me six months to get the electricity
sorted out and it turned out to be the same price with Unit-e (an
all-renewable firm so I know it's not pretend, like the British Gas
scheme apparently is) as with PowerGen. It would have cost 20 pounds
extra if my electric bill had been 300 instead of 160.


I've just had a look at unit-E. Their website refers to many
MW of wind-powered electricity generation, and a few
hundred kW of hydro. That's a very unbalanced mix, and
frankly means that they are, imho, either so small that they
are taking piffling amounts, or full of bullshit.

However, I welcome the general approach- buying power
from specified sources- you are putting your money where
your mouth is. Well done.

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Anton