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The media is saying that a "typical" annual bill for household energy will be £2,600 from October.

"Typical" has to be nonsense, surely? It is £50 per week every single week of the year - £7.15 per day.

The problem is that these figures are presented as Gospel and that everyone will be paying them in full. And from what I read I see that a majority of people really do think that is what they are going to pay.

I am a single bloke living in a six room plus central hallway flat who is in for about 22 hours a day and who takes blood thinners so needs to keep warm. From my spreadsheet I will be very disappointed if my annual bill comes in at over £950 - £1000.

Yep but you know typical means average and average means that the person paying £10k a year is added in.

It makes me very happy that I chose to put in a wood burning boiler for the CH. My local log man had put his prices up once in a decade.

Our house is just under 6x the size of the average home owned in the UK and over 8 times the size of the average rented apartment. Our total energy costs come in at around €2,500 per year and you have to remember I run 3 freezers and 3 fridges and a home office computer setup in which some machines run 24x7. Our biggest saving in one go was when I turned the water boiler under the sink off at midnight and on again at 6am. If we took it out we would save about €20 a month. We have decided that €240 a year is worth the convenience. Although you would have to factor that against kettle costs.

You can usually spot scare tactics. I ignore them.