The problems stem from a decision by Falkirk Council to install new, eco-friendly boilers in around 900 council properties over the past ten years, in a project costing £6 million.
The homes were previously heated by coal fires and storage heaters. Instead, the Thermaflow boilers use electricity to heat water and warm homes — which means residents don't need gas.Hurrah for the Greens! We're all saved from glob...
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On this deal, they were charged two different rates. They paid 7p per kilowatt hour (kWh) for their heating, and 12p/kWh for powering appliances and lighting.
But the supplier has since hiked the prices, to 16p/kWh and 18p/ kWh respectively — rates described by one expert as 'absolutely outrageous'.
On top of this, residents are now finding that they are barred from switching to another deal because the way their meters were set up means they are not compatible with most other tariffs on the market. So, to switch to a new deal, they would have to pay as much as £250 for an electrician to change their meter.Well, of course! If you get to choose, you're the consumer. If someone else chooses for you, you're the open wallet waiting to be pilfered.
It's why public sector contractors can charge £1000 to move a computer from one desk to another...
A Scottish Power spokesman says: 'These customers are not prevented from switching, all suppliers have an obligation to provide a tariff to support these meter types. To address the root cause of the problem, that many customers are using high levels of energy, we're working with Falkirk Council and making a £1 million fund available for energy efficiency and insulation measures.'When someone's selling something, and claims that high demand for that something is a 'problem', normal people smell a rat.
A council spokesman confirmed an independent contractor was visiting homes to review boiler performance, but had not yet identified any significant issues.Because there's nothing wrong with the boilers, except it's cold in Scotland and people want to use them...
George Curtis, of Thermaflow, insists the boilers are not to blame and puts the soaring bills down to energy providers hiking prices and residents using boilers incorrectly.How dare they expect to use them to keep warm? And despite this disaster, are second thoughts being had by the state?
Reader, they are not.
6 comments:
Is there anything these posturing virtue-signalling political cretins touch that isn't totally FUBAR? It's beyond belief that virtually the entire population is to be utterly screwed up just because TPTB feel the need to pander to an uninformed (and basically wrong) group fronted by a child with mental health issues.
I've stocked up on firewood. Now they tell us that in future it has to be kiln dried! At what cost? Smart meters? My a**e! To get a water meter fitted required work costing me almost £400. Water isn't a utility, it's a life essential. How long before prices creep up? How long before we hear about poor folk not hydrating or washing? How much more of this total bo**ocks will we take? I'm at tipping point and I am not alone.
The boilers are very good (i've got one), and that used to be a really good deal, but Scottish Power have more than doubled the price of the heating supply. All to pay for their bird shredders no doubt.
The entire country will be FUBAR if we don't come to our senses soon. How the insanity can be halted I have no idea. Our only hope is the start of some really serious push back when people finally wake up to what this brave new carbon free world is really going to be like.
"Our only hope is the start of some really serious push back when people finally wake up to what this brave new carbon free world is really going to be like."
I think its beginning to happen. So far the eco-nuttery has been largely theoretical rather than practical. It hasn't impacted people's lives too much. Now the theory is starting to become reality, with the proposals to ban non electric cars etc. Once the reality hits people, that this isn't a situation like other political stances whereby you can virtue signal, by say supporting higher taxes, safe in the knowledge that it won't be you paying them, this is going to affect everyone. Not only that its going to affect the poor hardest. I think you will see opposition hardening quite rapidly once things like car bans, firewood bans, gas boiler bans etc are proposed and people think 'Hang on, I've got a car, my parents have a wood stove, I've got a gas boiler. I quite like to keep all of them.'
"Is there anything these posturing virtue-signalling political cretins touch that isn't totally FUBAR?"
It wouldn't appear so, and yet we haven't risen up and hanged them all from lampposts yet...
"I've stocked up on firewood. Now they tell us that in future it has to be kiln dried! "
I'm beginning to suspect the most sensible thing to do is the opposite of what the public sector encourages...
"All to pay for their bird shredders no doubt."
Oh, yes! When if they really worked, they'd pay their own way.
"I think its beginning to happen. So far the eco-nuttery has been largely theoretical rather than practical. It hasn't impacted people's lives too much. Now the theory is starting to become reality..."
Which is why little Greta has gone into overdrive, perhaps..?
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