I hate this average family unit of measurement. I don’t use that much energy, almost no one does. Tell me how much it is changing per kWh instead, the units I am actually paying in.
Sure, that sounds bad, but look on the bright side…
The costs are going up because we’re using all the energy for the hallucinating lie machines that are using all the water and trying to kill all the jobs while increasing the costs of all computer parts.
Solar and Wind provide more cheap electricity than ever, so energy bills set to rise. What a grift.
We don’t yet have enough to turn off fossil fuel generation for an overly significant amount of time. So still gotta buy fossil fuels which are rising in price.
Until the public are prepared to turn devices off whenever they’re told, we need readily available sources of energy that can be fired up at a moment’s notice to fill the gaps between demand and what the renewables are providing. That’s done with gas, and so we all have to pay to keep a handful of gas stations operational. The alternative is that you turn appliances off on still cloudy days, which I suspect you’d like less than your current energy bill
Newsflash — battery banks work just as well as gas peaker plants. And they’re currently cheaper.
https://www.cesa.org/replacing-fossil-fueled-peaker-power-plants-with-battery-energy-storage/
Okay, so your bill is going to be a LOT higher for the next few years to pay for them to be built. Look, under our capitalist system there isn’t a way of having on-demand energy at all times without a cost to the consumer. I’d rather it were seen as an essential that the state provides, but there you go
I feel like we get this headline every year
It’s the circle of news:
- Energy bills to rise as cost of living bites.
- Journalist killed by IDF for no reason.
- Andrew Windsor done another nonce thing.
- Government to reset EU relationship.
- Trump threatens tariff increases until tributes met.
- Starmer to maybe, possibly, kinda, almost do something.
- Farage distances himself from suitcase of cash left at his constituency office.
- Economy doing sweet fuck all.
- Energy bills to rise as cost of living bites.
