Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

[AE-NMidlands]

I am with Coop energy (delivered by Octopus) and there is no problem whatsoever about me not having (and repeatedly declining) a smart meter. They are also accepting new customers on E7 tarrifs from other suppliers from what I have read here. I think that person had to ring up and talk to them and it went smoothly. I guess no supplier can afford to risk an avalance of new customers arriving "via online" because some comparison website happened to flag them up as temporarily cheaper than others.
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[Oldgreybeard]

I am with Coop energy (delivered by Octopus) and there is no problem whatsoever about me not having (and repeatedly declining) a smart meter. They are also accepting new customers on E7 tarrifs from other suppliers from what I have read here. I think that person had to ring up and talk to them and it went smoothly. I guess no supplier can afford to risk an avalance of new customers arriving "via online" because some comparison website happened to flag them up as temporarily cheaper than others.
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Very many thanks, I will give them a call. It does seem to be a real minefield finding out which suppliers will accept new customers, and what their tariffs are, at the moment. So many suppliers seem to shroud the tariffs they offer in secrecy that I've pretty much given up looking around for now. Our supplier is going to keep paying us £38.66 every month from now to the end of March, though, so we are in no rush to switch just yet.

[Joeboy]

Good to see WT1 outputting 83.5% of capacity in the trailing hour. That bit of Arctic blast would have been its first Winter test.

Edit 93.1% capacity at 13.00 hrs.

[Joeboy]

Just received a £10 voucher for John Lewis from Ripple. That was nice.

[AE-NMidlands]

Just received a £10 voucher for John Lewis from Ripple. That was nice.

What was that for? I saw a loyalty bonus from Octopus on my account the other day, but about 1/4 of yours!
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p.s. maybe yours is a back-hander for the value they get from your contributions here?

[Joeboy]

Just received a £10 voucher for John Lewis from Ripple. That was nice.

What was that for? I saw a loyalty bonus from Octopus on my account the other day, but about 1/4 of yours!
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p.s. maybe yours is a back-hander for the value they get from your contributions here?

That's funny!
I think it was for being brilliant?

Sent it onward to daughter in Edinburgh for Winter socks or similar.

In truth, it was a prize draw after having referred for project 3. I was unaware of either or have simply forgotten.

[Adokforme]

Update from Sarah below on the Generator Levy which may impact Kirk Hill and possibly future developments.
There is also a compassionate response from Sarah to a members enquiry regarding their recently widowed mother in law and possible implications if she were to apply for Project 3. I wonder how many other CEO's would find time to respond in this way?

Changes to new Generator Levy

The Government this week announced changes to the generator levy that will come into force in January. This is the issue we, and many members, raised with politicians in the autumn.

The levy will now apply above 50GWh per year rather than 100GWh as initially stated.

The £10m allowance will be maintained.

The generation from Kirk Hill will be above the new 50GWh threshold, but the levy liability should not breach the £10m annual allowance. We therefore do not expect Kirk Hill will be required to pay any levy.

Graig Fatha’s annual generation is well below the 50GWh threshold, so it will not be affected.

The reduction in the threshold to 50GWh does, however, make it more likely that some future Ripple projects will be impacted.

We will update you further once we have had the opportunity to explore the updates in more detail in the new year.

Sarah

Link: Updated technical note

[nowty]

If I was cynical, let’s say it’s 100GWh to stop the complaining then halve it in Xmas week. Too late for anyone to do anything about it and we don’t have to do anything about exempting community generators because we initially listened with the 100GWh value.

[Moxi]

Play them at their own game, split the build to Kirkhill phase 1 build the first batch and then fence it off and build phase 2 - two separate sites

Seriously though this is just the start - the Tories are proving that they cannot think beyond the current economic model of taxation that keeps us chained to their will. You only have to read about their indignation that over 50's are refusing to go back to work in order to pay more tax for less return or the rapid move to mandatory smart car charges to ensure they can cash in on the move to BEV's to know they are stuck in the past.

The more you can do to power, heat and support your own utility needs in the future the more likely you are to be able to safeguard yourself from big business and greedy government fleecing you for all they can get.

Moxi

[Fintray]

If I was cynical, let’s say it’s 100GWh to stop the complaining then halve it in Xmas week. Too late for anyone to do anything about it and we don’t have to do anything about exempting community generators because we initially listened with the 100GWh value.

I'm sure they meant no exemption but we'll say 100GWh then slash it to 50GWh...