Energy crises

I told them I sent the correct gas meter reading to SSE and expect the bill for the quarter to be what I bloody used which was £600 less than the estimated bill. Talking to their incredibly talented customer service expert...( tbh I found SSE customer services excellent) I said can you tell me what my my bill really is as you have the correct meter reading....the lady on the phone said..why don't you work it out, get a calculator...I reminder her its her poxy job to tell me.....the World is slowly going pathetic.  

£3.3 billion

Solar panels can be about twice as productive as they used to be. Also, previously, if a pigeon landed on one of your array of panels, it would reduce output on all of them. Now it reduces output on just the one concerned.

Battery storage has come on in leaps and bounds too.

The economics of the situation have changed markedly and with current prices, the payback period is vastly reduced. Some installations might only be a 4 year payback. Utility company prices might fall, however, they might not and being free of such a dependency is a great feeling.

Btw don't mention some ex Tory minister who had a bad memory to him 

The CEO is now in line to receive a £1.6 million pound bonus on top of his already substantial salary.

Centrica is in essence the previously government owned British Gas.  If it was still in the hands of the government then we would have had more control over the unit cost of gas and as a result millions of people wouldn’t be in the situation that they find themselves in.  Instead, we have private companies making sickening profits and paying out more in dividends to shareholders than they do in tax and investment in renewable energy sources etc.

They were saying on the news this morning that due to the stupid competition rules of business (agreed by the government), British Gas is not allowed to sell its gas off cheaper to their customers or other gas suppliers (as it breaks competition rules).  Just by changes the rules, gas prices (to the public) could reduce, easing the pressure ever so slightly.

100% a consequence of the way the UK's political & electoral systems work, giving a majoritarian government on the largest minority of votes, whereby that particular constituency is dominated by the wealthiest classes that live in the south eastern corner of Britain and so dominate the political agenda. This has been going on a very long time. It skews Welsh politics enormously. The vast majority of us look at the way things work and we think to ourselves "not the Tories". So we think "What's the alternative?" And the answer usually comes back "Labour". I don't believe that if Wales were a State in its' own right that Labour would have enjoyed a 100 year majority here. They're not particularly great. Would we have nationalised public services in an independent Wales? Seems like there's more appetite for it here than elsewhere. AFAIC the UK does not work. But I have been persuaded of the benefits of countries forming unions in light of the Brexit vote and the nature of the Welsh border so I am open to replacing the UK with a new British Union. Surely we cannot continue as we are?