According to Ofgem, the UK is currently undergoing a “once in a 30-year event”. Gas prices have been rising sharply, and this pushes up electricity prices too, since gas powers around 40% of electricity generation from the UK’s major power producers. The precise proportion varies, but you can check the figures using data from the National Grid at grid.iamkate.com: at the time of writing, gas accounted for 43.4% of energy being produced, with wind making up 25%, nuclear 13.7% and solar photovoltaic just 13.3%.
In the long term we can hope that a growing proportion of our power will come from stable, renewable sources – but until then, elevated energy prices may be the norm. If you want to save money, your only option is to consume less power.
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If you want to cut your energy usage, you might be tempted to start by auditing all of the computers,
