Removing VAT sounds attractive. But 5% off an expensive bill is still an expensive bill. VAT also gives the biggest cash saving to the households using the most electricity. Shouldn’t we tackle the price of electricity itself instead?
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The energy industry keeps creating more tariffs. Tracker. Agile. EV. Cosy. Flux. Fixed. Variable. Does having dozens of tariffs create competition, or does it just make it harder for ordinary households to know which one is best?
Scotland can generate huge amounts of cheap wind power, but when the grid can’t move it south, consumers pay the price through constraint payments and higher TNUoS charges.
Imagine if No. 10 Downing Street and No. 10 North were just ordinary family homes. 🏠 No. 10 Downing Street (London): 44.78p/day standing charge 🏠 No. 10 North (Manchester): 47.61p/day standing charge #Energy #StandingCharge #RegionalInequality
People say the UK energy market is competitive. Yet most suppliers charge almost the same price because the Ofgem price cap effectively becomes the market price. If everyone ends up charging roughly the same, how much competition is there really?
Wholesale prices jumped in 2022 and 2023 but they have dropped down but there's been a sneaky rise in policy and network costs.
Wholesale electricity is often much cheaper than the price on your bill. So why are households paying around twice as much? Because your electricity bill includes network costs, policy costs, supplier costs and other charges that most people never see.
In 2025 the average wholesale prices of electricity was well below our proposed 15p/kWh peak rate. Let's pay for electricity not policy costs, not levies and let's supernate network costs.
The UK has some of the most expensive household electricity prices in the G7. Energy isn’t just another bill. It affects manufacturing, pubs, shops, hospitals and every household. If electricity is too expensive, can the UK really compete?
@danneidle.bsky.social Should we start to tax food and make VAT on food simple? policyseed.uk/policies/eco...
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Reading Time: 4 minutesExecutive Summary The UK’s VAT system for food has evolved into one of the most complex parts of the tax code. Decades of exemptions, legal rulings and product-specific classif...
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With young people facing the most challenging start to adulthood we believe in a £200,000 tax free earnings starting from 16 yrs. policyseed.uk/policies/eco...
Is it fair that North Wales and Mersey pay 25.98p more than those in London everyday on their electricity standing charges everyday, that an extra £95 a year #inequality #wales #merseyside
Electric Standing Charge Map - Policy Seed
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRank Region Standing Charge vs Cheapest Extra per Year 1 London 44.78p/day — — 2 North West 47.61p/day +2.83p £10.33 3 Southern 49.70p/day +4.92p £17.96 4 East Midlands 53.60p/day +8.82p £32.19 5 Eastern 53.94p/day +9.16p £33.43 6 South East 54.45p/day +9.67p £35.30 7 Northern Scotland 57.55p/day +12.77p £46.61 8 South Wales 57.84p/day +13.06p £47.67 9 […]
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See how your regions compares on standing charges and how the electricity grid reinforces regional inequality.
Electric Standing Charge Map - Policy Seed
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Standing charges are unfair and out of date. We need to reform them into something that everyone can understand and those that put the most strain on the net...
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Today we have seen an abundance of solar generation pushing prices negative but solar burst should not distract from a consistent peak and off peak national domestic tariff policyseed.uk/policies/ene...
Summer Solar Abundance: Consistent National Off-Peak Tariff - Policy Seed
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Challenge One criticism of a fixed off-peak electricity tariff is that wholesale electricity prices are changing. Historically, the cheapest electricity was almost always a...
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Any idea how the energy markets really work, probably not and its way more complicated than it need to be.
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Solar is not the answer to cheaper domestic energy for most households.
Why Solar Panels and Home Batteries Are Not the Solution for Everyone – Policy Seed
Solar panels and home battery systems are excellent technologies that should play a significant role in the UK’s transition to clean electricity. However, they are not a realistic or affordable solution for every household.
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And negative wholesale prices, there's too much electricity on the gird. #shiftdemand #energycrisis
British Electricity Tracker@mygridgb.bsky.social · 2w agoBritish electricity mix at 8am on 25th Jul 2026 🔥Gas 15.3% Biomass 9.4% 🍃Wind 36.9% Solar 12.7% Hydro 0.5% ⚛️Nuclear 14.4% ➡️Imports 10.9% Other 0.0% 🪫Storage 0.0% 🔌Generation 24GW Carbon intensity 119 gCO2e/kWh vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030
Britain needs to be bold and ambitious - we can be inspired by CopenHIll to re-power our industry cities. open.substack.com/pub/policyse...
How expensive electricity is holding Stoke-on-Trent back
There was a time when Stoke-on-Trent made the world’s ceramics.
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Over the last 6 month every night the grid has huge existing capacity to power the country. The whole nation needs to shift demand overnight so we utilise overnight renewables and utilise the existing network. policyseed.uk/policies/ene...
