The capped price of a unit of electricity is up 4.6%, and is now 129% higher than winter 2020-21 – at 28.62p compared to 12.50p. The standing charge cap is now 119% […]
Capped Unit of Electricity: 129% higher than winter 2020-21
Emma Roddick MSP: New Energy Price Cap “will hit already struggling households with higher standing charges.”
“Essentially, due to the difference in how prices have come down, electric heating households will spend more to purchase a third less energy than the typical dual fuel consumption used to illustrate the price cap.”
Size Matters: Trident Pole Demonstration
Orkney Heritage Society plan to set up a temporary full size replica of the double ‘Trident Poles’ that SSE Transmission intend to erect in lines from Redland to Hoy via Finstown and down across South Ronaldsay and across Flotta as part of the new interconnector.
80 Years on, What has happened to Tom Johnston’s Energy Vision for the Highlands & Islands “We shall make a different future” ?
His idea was to create cheaper energy for the Highlands and Islands with the surplus produced being sold to the South for a profit.
Energy Bills Latest Info
From 1st October 2022, Orkney & North Scotland: Unit rate: 33.08p per kWh Standing charge: 51.07p per day
Letters: Apology Required #EnergyPriceCrisis
“Before Alistair Carmichael can join the long-running campaign for fair energy prices for folk in Orkney and Shetland – and indeed all off-gas areas across the Highlands and Islands – I think he needs to apologise to his constituents.”
£1.2million Extra Cash to Energy Advice Organisations
Ofgem’s newly calculated price cap will be announced today, 26th August to take effect from 1st of October to 31st of December 2022.
Nationalising Energy: The Quebec Example
In Quebec “fuel poverty is at 7%, compared to an estimated 44% in Orkney after the April 2022 price cap rise” Robert Leslie
Time to regain control of our electric future?
ROBERT LESLIE looks back at how electricity developed in Orkney and wonders, after almost a century, if we have now come full circle to a point where local ownership could secure a brighter future for the islands
“We shall make a different future.” Tom Johnston’s Vision 70 Years Ago
His idea was to create cheaper energy for the Highlands and Islands with the surplus produced being sold to the South for a profit.
