{"id":3041,"date":"2013-10-04T13:41:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2013-10-04T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:41:38","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-high-energy-prices-people-struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=3041","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week- high energy prices people are struggling"},"content":{"rendered":"

I listened to call “You and Yours”<\/a> this week on BBC radio 4 which had a debate about energy prices. Its obvious that due to high energy prices people are struggling.\u00a0 Some of the stories were a mixture of inspiration and toe curling sacrifice.\u00a0 Their were a heap of people\u00a0 calling in who claimed not to switch their heating on at all.<\/p>\n

One person lived in Cornwall and claimed she did not use heating since it was warmer there.\u00a0 True it is, but we have had three cold winters which have affected the South West of the UK as much as anywhere else.\u00a0 This person had a well insulated house and a wood-burner in the centre of it somewhere.\u00a0 As she said she was lucky living in the country with ready availability to supplies of wood.<\/p>\n

Another person’s tale was far more scary and war zone like, involving washing in small amounts of cold water.\u00a0 Yet another had learnt to have only cold showers.\u00a0 Yet another had been driven by high energy prices to move into one room during the heating season.\u00a0 He had everything including a small cooker in there.\u00a0 In the summer he used the rest of the house.\u00a0 My parents neighbours church does this.\u00a0 They cannot afford to heat the church building in winter, so meet in the church hall.<\/p>\n

The common thread running through all this debate about high energy prices is heating.\u00a0 Whilst its possible (at least in theory) to do without heat in the UK its extremely difficult to do without electricity.\u00a0 There was little mention of conserving electricity on the programme even by the experts, although a couple of people had PV systems and raved about them.\u00a0 One person had used solar PV and solar hot water to heat an inter-seasonal heat store something we write about in the book and I would have been interested in knowing more about.<\/p>\n

The “Green deal “<\/a> (again something we write about in “No oil in the lamp”) came up.\u00a0 Its had an extremely low take-up, part of the problem is ironically that many energy efficiency measures take a very long time to pay for themselves or never do within the life time of the product (such as double glazing).\u00a0 Energy prices as I wrote last week are both too high and too low, but this is largely not due to renewable policy, but wholesale gas price increases and these look set to continue.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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