Luke Allcock

Water baby. Scuba diver. Paddle boarder. iOS, Windows, Xbox and Roku developer with a passion for UX, design and animation!

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@agile_phil @Lynton_Green @privatehireguy @agile_phil but what about mixed charging, half comes from solar and half comes from the grid at the same time? Sounds like you wouldn’t get 6 full hours of grid energy in this scenario

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@agile_phil What are you doing about solar? E.g. if someone if your car is charging 1kW from the grid and the rest from your solar production then it wouldn’t be fair to limit to 6h of 1kW grid usage

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@agile_phil @DaveLunt97 @OhmeEV Octopus are telling us that you should not ever be limiting our EV chargers to anything below 7kW ever, so please can you stop as they’re implementing changes in January that would penalise us if this continues to happen

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@agile_phil @agile_phil the FAQ link to Ohme gives a 404

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@Kkatamina @Valkyrae Did you/are you going to open them? Or do we have to cryogenically freeze ourselves for a century?

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@BucksCouncil That’ll be nice, you didn’t last time it snowed which made the conditions extremely dangerous.

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@john_oes @g__j Hi John, I’ve DM’d you.

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@g__j had a broken EV charger installed a week ago by Octopus and they still haven’t rectified or even given me any information about when they’re going to sort it despite numerous calls

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@ItzMasayoshi if you rest your arms on your legs whilst wearing your merch you get smiley thighs

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@janrosenow @IEA This appears to show that air-water heat pumps cost significantly more to run than gas condensing boilers?

There’s also another issue of needing planning permission if the heat pump unit would come within 1 metre of your property boundary, which is the case for me.

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@g__j @simoncgallagher @psbroke I used to be with Green Energy UK and the tariff I was on had zero standing charge which saved me a lot of money as my usage was so low. Why can’t Octopus do that? 47p per day is just a massive punishment for people with solar panels.

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@OctopusEnergy My faulty smart meter was exchanged for a new smart meter 10 days ago, not yesterday. You have been receiving half-hourly readings before then and since then. So I should be sent one already.

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@KateRoseMorley please could you explain what you mean by the record wind power of 15.871 GW as it says online that we hit 19.916 GW in May this year which is much higher than today?

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@agile_phil please can you respond to my message and update me? It’s been 6 months now and I’m still no closer to finding out whether Octopus are stealing my energy or if Sunsynk are misreporting my energy causing octopus to steal my money.

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@ChaseSupportUK @Rosshenery Yep. Chase now offers one of the lowest interest rates in the industry. Shame to have to leave as the app is quite nice.

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@MartinSLewis @ofgem Why does everywhere say it’s an 80% increase when the gas unit price has gone up 100% and electricity 83% and standing charges have both gone up too so how does that make 80%?

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@agile_phil I’ve just seen your article around the Powerwall Smart Meter issue and believe I’m seeing the same issue with my Sunsynk battery. When using battery my smart meter shows a constant draw of 100w, using more power actually makes this drop which makes no sense at all.

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

@youmemmatsix Did you sign up for a fixed tariff? They tend to be a lot more expensive than the standard variable tariffs at the moment. The standard variable tariffs are limited to the price cap whereas the fixed tariffs go way above it.

[Luke Allcock @lukeja]

Thank you @jessiej for spending 42 hours with me this year on @Spotify. You are my #1. I’m in your top 0.005% of listeners. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/TxMKVuNug1