My energy supplier has gone bust

We switched to the variable Octopus tariff recently which I probably said earlier in this thread. Fixed tariffs with Octopus were more than EONNext so I went with them. Keeping an eye on tariffs out of interest with EON and they soon got rid of their variable tariff and the fixed ones kept being replaced.

Tonight based on my probably electric and gas supply they want an extra £400 per annum. Compared to my just ended Octopus tariff it's about £650 extra a year. No doubt it will soon be double what I was paying.

Glad I switched to a 2 year fixed deal with no exit fees.

I've been moved to British Gas. I wonder if they will do a decent tariff for EV users.

...and not use it to store cheap electricity and feed it back into the house in the daytime - although, done reasonably, this would be beneficial to the grid. Our i3 can't do it but I think Esp's forthcoming Ioniq 5 can, through the right wallbox.

I've looked at EV tariffs before and decided not to bother. Our 5000 EV miles a year equates to about £200 on the bill, so there's not a lot of scope for saving unless we could use the cheap electricity for other things - like laundry, I suppose.

Hyundai bi-directional charger will not run your house, it can deliver 3.6kWh which would be enough to keep the fridge and freezer going, maybe even boil the kettle but it will not replace the 11kW mains feed if the lights go out.

This is pretty scary reading:
www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/30/ofgem-prepares-for-looming-failure-of-a-leading-energy-supplier

If one of the big boys goes then what ?

The issue is the house is not isolated back to the grid.

Matey comes along and thinks he's switched off power from the grid to work on a local sub and bang 10x5kWh Tesla batteries in the garage at number 22 reminds him it's not isolated. That's the bit that needs to be fixed before bi-directional power is a goer.

I would think solar panel installs must have some kind of gateway management though they are not producing anything like what a bank of batteries can deliver at any given time.