On 13/01/2021 12:16, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 03:34:58 -0800 (PST), Owain Lastname wrote:

If your 'electric boiler' is going to be on peak rate electricity it may be 'greener' ie use less electricity overall, but it will cost you 3x
the price of storage heaters to run and 5x the price of a mains gas
boiler.

Or not. I pay 10.566 p/unit 24/7 on an E7 tariff. That's only about
2x mains gas.

As more and more coal and nuclear plants close, the availability of
'unwanted' off peak power diminishes.

I suspect the only suitable replacement in future will the
OctopusAgile tarriff that gives you advance notice of what your
hourly rate will be so you can plan your usage.

One of the Tims seems to have this tarriff. I would be interested
to know what sort of hourly rate he was paying through the recent
cold snap. The Octopus website only gives historical data up to
about 6 months ago.

Some housing associations (or their tenants) have been bitten badly by
ill-advised 'eco' heating schemes that are lucrative for the scheme
developers.

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What the OP has posted sets off that alarm bell with me as well.

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