To the man who sends me messages I have your IP address.
I added code to my contacts page.
From your IP I know your service provider, Sky.
Would you like me to continue or is it obvious that you can now be identified by the police!
Women don't need to put up with this or
Come on how cool is this? I suggested that
@OctopusEnergy
app should show gas usage in kWh. I found it impossible to monitor my consumption/cost and they’ve not only done it but named the function, “Sarah’s Mode”. 😂AMAZING!!! It’s so much easier.🐙 🤭💥Thank you!! 💚💚
My brother dropped his wallet while out cycling.
He remembered it has an airtag and spotted it was in a house on an Gabalfa in Cardiff.
He called and asked my advice. I said go knock the door and just ask.
The guy even went next door with him to check and the bloke had it.
I suddenly had a flash back watching
@JustStop_Oil
.
My gran was so annoyed lorries working on a new section of the A470 were thundering up and down her road that she staged a protest.
With her mate Mary they both constantly walked back and forth the zebra crossing causing
My 12 year old was waiting up for me to get home last night.
She asked me what had happened at the
@OctopusEnergy
energy tech summit.
I told her i'd listens to the man who invented the world wide web.
How by the the time she's 40 there should be solar space energy.
I'd seen
Several years ago I lost a baby quite late in pregnancy.
My head was all over the place trying to cope.
I decided if i flew to New York and stood on top of the Empire State building it would prove i was ok.
I had never left Europe. I only took my handbag.
I had no change of
View from my bedroom window. How many turbines can you see? 💚
I was brought up in a mining community where the rivers ran black and cars were covered in black dust.
This gives me so much more hope!
I think they are beautiful!!
#renewableenergy
#windturbine
#Wales
🏴
If your interested in the new
@OctopusEnergy
Cosy 6 heat pump.
It's £3000 or FREE with government grant applied.
It comes with;
Heat Pump.
Cosy Hub.
Heat Pods around the home (smart thermostat like Tado i think.)
Installation
Aftercare.
It all links up to an app.
I'll
This months January energy bill has arrived.
Just looking at my electricity I've paid zero for my electricty and it's made me a credit of £33.
So to recap.
I've driven 640 miles in an EV
Used electricty in my home to heat hot water etc.
And the energy has cost me NOTHING!
We are going with
@OctopusEnergy
for our solar and battery install.
G99 submitted.
Thanks everyone for your brilliant advice.
Who's excited? I am!!!! 🤣☀️🤳🌍🐙
My scaffolding goes up today for my
@OctopusEnergy
solar and
@GivEnergy
battery. ( Going in my garage )
It's just over 6 kW of solar panels on 2 South facing roofs.
All In One 13.5 kW battery with the islanding capability.
SolarEdge & optimisers.
@DrJessTaylor
The other thing was to tidy up before bed in case you had to call a doctor in the night. You'd need a tidy room in case the doctor was called out. Be lucky to see one as a clinic now!
Got on the train back to 🏴
The seat reservations weren't on and someone was sat in my seat (table) with spare seat next to them.
I sat down behind, no issue.
An old man got on and ask if he could sit in the spare seat. She said she'd paid for this seat and the one next to
I was a child who lived in a home that would have been considered in poverty.
I went to school amongst coal mines, smouldering hillsides and watched multicoloured smoke and thundering NCB trucks and coal wagons pass every day.
I see a greener future and I'm going to just keep
Sam bought his Model 3 in March 2022.
Sadly he's been diagnosed with brain cancer and was given 12 weeks to live.
His wife sought a second opinion and is raffling the Model 3 to raise funds for a new trial she has found that might give them more time.
I absolutely love this website.
Well done whoever created it!!
Are you on X? 🫡
I think this is the best one I've seen!
@g__j
@OctopusEnergy
being able to compare variable v tracker prices so easily is fab.
My
@OctopusEnergy
energy bills has landed for the last month.
I am on the intelligent tariff. (EV tariff)
I load shifted around 60% of my energy to off-peak.
This brought my average price per kWh down to 19.12p per kWh 👏
I've got 3 kids who are home all day and an EV. 💚🤳
The 4 turbines you can see from my bedroom window and from the beach where I live.
I really don't understand why England are still blocking these.
It seems a complete no brainer to me.
I worry sick about my kids future and these could help. Plus give us more energy security.
Frankie Update.
Spoke to the vets and they say they haven't operated and will review in morning.
The air going under her skin hasn't got bigger but swelling has. They expected that though.
She's eaten and stood on her own which is all good signs.
She has had to put a sign
We stayed in a home with a heat pump in February when on holidays in West Wales.
Hubby was staggered when i pointed out our lovely rental was cosy and warm just from the heat pump.
He seemed really taken back that the house wasn't topped up by anything else for heating.
I'm
Good news...
Even if all of the electricity for a heat pump is generated by gas it uses less gas than a gas boiler
That's how incredibly efficient heatpumps are (and how inefficient gas boilers are)
I am like a kid at Christmas awake early excited about day 2 of my solar and battery install.💚☀️🎄
This is where the magic happens. Yes, in the understairs cupboard. 🤣
This was a personal want for me. The capacity to island my home and run the whole house in a power cut.
Boom boom shake the room!!!
@OctopusEnergy
EMPOWERING customers!
Look at the before and after videos!!
My home builder had told me the loft insulation was fine!
Don’t mess with an Octopus customer!!!
Thank you guys for great advice on twitter and thermal imaging camera!🤳🐙
This is quite funny.
Not the correct way to deal with someone fly tipping on your land but the farmer got the van registration and took over 400 tyres back and dumped them on his doorstep.
I think the farmer made his point.
My friend has a different disposable income to me.
Our kids play together and have been friends for some time.
One of her kids asked why their cousin got so much more than them at Christmas. He asked if they are very poor.
She used my kids as an example. Do they get excessive
Time to agree to ban unnecessary Christmas presents, the best gift may be not buying anyone anything. Watch & share if you agree…
Watch the full
@itvMLshow
(pre) Christmas special on itvX
I am always polite, open-minded and happy to accept that everyone has their own valid opinion.
I get so many DMs and emails, that I respond to from people who are too scared to ask questions publicly.
They don't want drama from a keyboard warrior and they trust me.
What you
@sarah_go_green
@OctopusEnergy
@GivEnergy
Lady your nothing special. There is a lot of us that have been doing this for a while now, but unlike you we get on with life nice and quietly. How about you try that. 🥱🥱🥱🥱
Frankie update.
I spoke to the surgeon. He doesn't feel he need to operate yet as she's breathing without oxygen now.
She's got big pockets of air that are concerning around her neck but they'd prefer not to operate if they can.
So they'll try her with some food and
Should all new build homes come installed with a full roof of solar and battery storage?
Today Ingenerated 29 kWh of energy. (by sunset it was more 😃)
I exported 24 kWh to the grid.
I imported 5.5 kWh off-peak before 5.30am.
It's mind boggling how much i saved compared to
I almost threw the remote at the ITV News at 10.
A young woman in the South Wales valleys saying a wind turbine would ruin the landscape.
Bang my head against a flippin wall!!
She is too young to remember the black rivers and ash covered cars.
I was taking my daughter to drop a parcel off and i spotted this gem of a street.
They all have a Tesla Power Wall and solar panels and guess who the tenant i spoke to has as his energy provider. 🤣🐙
He is thrilled his electricty bill last month was £11 after solar export!!
Why would anyone want to get solar installed in the winter?
Washing machine on.🧺
Dishwasher on a cleaning cycle.. flex 🤣
Airfryer on.👩🏻🍳
AND i am exporting to the grid. 🏠🎯🤷♀️
My solar panels have been up and operating since the 13th October.
In that time, (around 9 week) i've produced around 500 kWh of energy from ☀️ from 15 panels.
We are heading towards the shortest day, then days start opening up and hopefully more ☀️🏴!!
These should be
I like to teach my kids that they have to work for what they want in life.
They've just had an amazing 2 days in London in a very fancy hotel.
The pay back is they have to open ALL of these next week as we go on our ALL electric canal boat holiday. 🤣
I'll be doing this. 🤳🍿
Sometimes people struggle to understand when women or girls are autistic.
Men get this too but I think for women they are so good at masking and looking like they fit in that the struggle behind even simple tasks isn't obvious.
This is a good example. Simple tasks can be 🤯
My teacher at high school hated me being in the top set for English.
She told me it was pointless turning up for my English exam when I can't even spell.
I made a fuss to stay in her class as I wanted to do A level English.
She rushed past me on results day. I told her I had
If i'm reading this correctly from the 1st February 2024 if you have solar panels already and want to add battery storage it will be VAT exempt.
These consultation outcomes were published yesterday, 11th December on the .gov website.
Good news!!!🔋⚡️☀️
And so it continues.
The day rate on
@OctopusEnergy
Go and Intelligent Octopus tariffs is dropping by around 9p ish per kWh!!!!!
Emails are going out in batches.
Amazing grand design episode.
The guy built the first passive house premium in the UK.
The house generates 4 times more energy than it consumes. The grid however, will only let them export just over half.
They've got a zappi
@JordeeBrompton
🤓
They arrived at 8am like DIY SOS. 🤣
Was I ready? No. 🤣😬🫣
I wanted to moved Dennis out of the way and expect a slightly less energetic start at day 9.30am.
BUT they are a lovely bunch and the kettle and Welsh cakes are out. I am happy with their enthusiasm. 💚
We just need
My
@OctopusEnergy
bill is in for March 23.
I've managed to load shift around 58% of my energy to the offpeak window on Intelligent Octopus.
This brings my average per kWh for electricty down to 20.31p per kWh.
💚🚗
I'm not neurotypical, I'm quite obviously on the spectrum. 🤣
Usually after i've been somewhere I relive almost every conversation I had and i can't stop myself from wondering if a "normal" person would have acted differently.
Today, none of that!
I met nearly all Ocotopus
Someone said I had picked the wrong time of year to get my install.
First month 🔋☀️
This months electricty bill = £63.91
Last months electricty bill = £146.63.
Saving = £82.72
The saving is thanks to solar and battery with a little export as that's only recently been
Please no applause. 🤣🥁
16.5 kWh produced today in South Wales 😎🎯🍿
That's more than enough to power the average home and it's still January.
I think the average home uses about 8 kWh.🫡
A new tariff has been launched by
@OctopusEnergy
called Intelligent Octopus Flux and it works in a similar way to the EV tariff but this time controlling your home battery!
At the moment it's just the
@GivEnergy
battery but more batteries will be added.
So i had this comment in one of my videos about repairing my Tesla.
I can't be bothered i'm going to just keep sharing this and walking way for a while 🤣
Back in my little village. 🏴 Kids delighted with the EV. My mums other half is blind. He became blind late in life. He use to drive for a living. I took him for a spin and he LOVED it! Couldn’t stop laughing. The regen breaking and acceleration. Tesla delights all the senses.
23 years ago today my dad died at 50.
He was 20 when I was born, it was just a year after this photo was taken. (He is on the left)
We didn't have much money but my childhood was fun and I was immensely proud of him.
We'd walk down the street and people were pleased to see
Frankie Update.
I think she will be home tomorrow!!
The vet said when she coughs she is still getting air from her trachea under her skin as the leak opens BUT if we keep her calm and give lots of LTC she can come home.
I could explode with happiness!
Crazy after a few weeks
Now we know where all the anti
#HeatPump
&
#EV
rhetoric has been coming from, the U.K. government.
All designed to soften up public opinion for today’s announcement.
£3.5m of Tory donations linked to pollution and
#climate
denial, says report
#NetZero
Frankie Update.
The vet just called the dog is coughing causing the tear in her trachea to leak air under her skin but she's eating and is bright and happy.
They are keeping her in for another overnighter so she can have pain relief and they can monitor her and the swelling.
This is the the brains behind the
@OctopusEnergy
Cosy 6.
She's one of my favourite people at Octopus as she is so modest and super clever!
She's a legend and I was delighted to meetup with her again today.
Derya Robinson explained how the Cosy 6, hub and pods work.
The
Cost of living: Mother shares tips after energy reduction trial
I’ll do signed photos if you really insist 😂
Article about
@OctopusEnergy
@SavingSessions
⏰
Great service from
@cleevelyev
this morning.
It was arguable if i needed as service but I'm on 18k miles and i wanted get it done.
They found rust on my breaks 🤣 (so much for EVs causing an issue with break dust) and have advised me to do some breaking to get that worn off.
So the electric canal boat holiday is off.
Our 13 week old puppy got attacked very badly this morning whilst walking on lead.
She has a punctured trachea. It was horrific kids were all screaming.
Heading down to an emergency hospital for an urgent operation.
Owners
If you were having a completely new system installed and wanted to cover both solar ☀️and battery 🔋options for your home what would you do different or what would be your first choice, if you haven't done it yet?
I just had a solar install call me. I've been on various lists
Dont like wind turbines and solar is a waste of time?
How people forget. This was in the Cynon Valley. Coal was everywhere and I mean everywhere!!!!
I don't remember them overhead but my mum does. She said she often wonders if she imaged it as it was so bad.
The mountain
This months EV charging costs.
£14 to drive around 770 miles.
Saving roughly £106 compared to fueling a petrol or diesel car.
Over the year it gets even better a saving of £1760 on fuel!🥰
If we add in sunny money now I have solar it'll soon be even less! ☀️⚡️🚗🔋
I’ve had Dennis now for 2 months. I feel really lucky to have such an amazing EV. As well as not having to visit the petrol station ⛽️ it’s all been so easy. Like mind blowing easy! I have a tight budget during the month and not paying for petrol is saving loads!!! EVs are fab!💚
So Openreach engineer called and didn't fill me with hope.
When I mentioned the battery storage she said she's never heard of that and maybe it's the big battery that's draining my wifi. 🫣
I'm not a crypto farm. 🫠🤣
Our village had a river clean yesterday.
It was organised by one of our villagers and there were 150 volunteers.
From this tiny stretch of river they pulled out 300 tyres!
I’ve just had this email from Tesla asking about a delivery location. It’s asked me to select a location to pick up my Model Y in the UK!!!!!!! I’ve completed the form but it hasn’t given a date. This seems like a good sign?
@TeslaOwnersUK
@evsmiles
@raimonick
This is the reason why in my own small way i want to protect my home supply from outside forces or policies that I have limited control over by having solar and battery storage installed.
@OctopusEnergy
installed my panels and have opened my eyes over the last 6 years to new
NEW
Octopus CEO
@g__j
Despite the fact we've got cold weather and tensions in the Middle East, gas prices are at the lowest level in three years... the price cap will soon be coming down... But this is another reminder of why we need to shift to renewables...
Quite short notice but
@NationalGridESO
just did an update and there's a
@SavingSessions
tonight!
It's marked as a test event but
@OctopusEnergy
are in!!
Tonight 6.30pm to 7.30pm.
Who's clicking that button?
The irony of sitting in the dark whilst trying to help
@NationalGridESOy
yet stripes of cold spots exists in my bedroom got to me.
I just called my home builder and had a moment. 😡
RESULT they are sending an insulation company to fix it!
Empowering customers
@OctopusEnergy
I've just had an idea in relation to heating my hot water on excess solar.
I've been tapping the 1 hour boost button in the digital emersion timer when i have excess solar. I could time this for the summer too OR...
I could add a switch bot so i can click the 1 hour boost
I moved to
@OctopusEnergy
gas tracker in July 2023.
My average unit price for gas over 6 months has been 4.71p per kWh.
Prior to the energy crisis anything 3p per kWh or below was normal.
The current Energy Price Cap is just over 7p per kWh!!
Saved £204 just in gas.
I will take that as a win.
On the intelligent tariff
@OctopusEnergy
i’ve managed to load shift 65% of my electricty to off-peak.
I don’t have battery storage or obviously solar. So 17.97p per kWh is really good.
💚🤳
Who's in tonight
@SavingSessions
@OctopusEnergy
5.30pm to 6.30pm and there seems to be a chance to double your points! (Not sure if the extra points are for everyone or people who haven't taken part in a session yet!)
Lets go!
Why don't caravans like the one i'm
staying in now come as standard with solar panels on the roof and a 5 kW battery?
They aren't cheap to buy, why not build them in?
All these caravans for at least 5 months of the year when people aren't home but instead using solar from their
Here we go the 15 panels are all up along with the bird proofing. ☀️
Total 6.1 kW of solar PV.
I also managed to persuade one of the roofers to change a tile on a totally different area of roof! 👏
He cleaned the gutters too!! There was a lot of gunk from the field behind!
An older gentleman parked quite close to Dennis waiting for his wife in the shop.
He offered to pull out so i could get in.
I made a joke about not paying for the whizzy feature to call the Tesla forward.
Ten minutes later he said," I was really unsure if I'd ever buy an EV.
When i first switched to
@OctopusEnergy
there were no smart tariffs. 🦕
When they were introduced i just couldn't invisage using them. 😬
My comfort zone was a fixed rate. 💕
I pretended I was on a smart tariff and load shifted whilst on a fixed deal. 🕧🤭
I saved nothing but
If you have a Barclays mortgage and you are going to having;
Solar
Battery
Heat Pump
Insulation
New windows or doors.
They'll give you a cash reward eg
£1000 for solar PV
£2000 heat pump.
You don't need to remortgage to claim it!
Seems too good!
Yay, happy to help
@RippleEnergy
. I am delighted to own a share of the turbine.🏴 Front page of the Telegraph website. Funny how a phone call where they thought i was
@SpeakSarahSpeak
ends up with article lol 😂
#RenewableEnergy
Just pulled over to take a photo. There are so many of turbines 🏴
They make me happy.
For every 8 spins a home can be fueld for a day!
I co-own a turbine about 20 minutes away thanks to
@RippleEnergy
I’ll be driving past a solar farm owned by
@OctopusEnergy
in 2 mins ;-)💚
This photo was taken about 5 minutes from my house last night, so the plankton is back!
I love the fact I have this on my doorstep and that people travel from miles at night to come and try to catch a glimpse each summer. 🏴
Nature is amazing.
I’ve owned my Tesla just a few days over a year.
Chexked my
#tesla
app and compared to driving a petrol car I have saved £2012 in fuel!
Just had the road tax and for now it’s 0.
No one mention the car insurance though.🤣
My daughter had a warning from TikTok about one of her comments.
She was responding to an American about Halloween.
They said they were Christian and didn't like Halloween but would dress up but didn't like it as it was a demonic act.
She pointed out historically it was