Energy subsidies

[superheat6k]

So how will marina and boat yards fare as their current energy deals end ?

My own yard presently provides us electricity at an amazing 18p / kwh unit, but time April when the current deal ends they are expecting a massive price hike.

So we have a mixture of standard berth holders and liveaboards. How does this work for the Government subsidy ?

Can I claim my boat is my home and obtain cheaper power ?

 

[jamie N]

I'd respectfully suggest that this thread was moved to Scuttlebutt, where it'd have more relevance.

 

[superheat6k]

I'd respectfully suggest that this thread was moved to Scuttlebutt, where it'd have more relevance.

Heating my boat throughout the Winter is a significant expense and for me very relevant as a practical boat owner, so with respect, no I won't be moving it.

 

[Alex_Blackwood]

So how will marina and boat yards fare as their current energy deals end ?

My own yard presently provides us electricity at an amazing 18p / kwh unit, but time April when the current deal ends they are expecting a massive price hike.

So we have a mixture of standard berth holders and liveaboards. How does this work for the Government subsidy ?

Can I claim my boat is my home and obtain cheaper power ?

Your marina will likely be on a commercial, as opposed to a residential, tariff and will ,therefore receive any subsidy for that tariff. Whether they chose to pass that on to the berth holders is up to them. Caravan park/ mobile home park residents are having some sort of protest today about something similar, so I believe.

 

[thinwater]

Add big solar. More convenient and helps everyone. I really only use shore power in AC season.

 

[superheat6k]

Your marina will likely be on a commercial, as opposed to a residential, tariff and will ,therefore receive any subsidy for that tariff. Whether they chose to pass that on to the berth holders is up to them. Caravan park/ mobile home park residents are having some sort of protest today about something similar, so I believe.

The result of any changes would imply similar for boat owners, so this could be interesting, but I doubt the Government will care a damn about minor interest groups like this. No votes in it.

 

[superheat6k]

Add big solar. More convenient and helps everyone. I really only use shore power in AC season.

I am looking longer term to install solar, that said since I binned the awful old battery charger in favour of the super duper Mastervolt a few months ago my electricity usage since has been ~ £0.50 over two months, rather than the £5 per week it was before. My concern is keeping the boat above freezing temperatures and on the days this will be needed solar will be of nil value in a cloudy southern England.

 

[oldgit]

Our boating club has been passing on the increasing cost of electricity to club members as and when the increases have occured.
We pay our shorepower bill quarterly so any increases are passed on fairly quickly but are incremental.
We all know what is coming and some will have not been charged the going rate for some time. ?

More concerned about those unable to heat a house rather than those running serried arrays of heaters and dehumidifiers on a boat. rather than crack a window or hatch.

 

[Trident]

If you have legal, council tax paying liveaboards then the marina should receive the £400 (?) per person for them only and pass it on. If they are not legal, council tax paying residents then nothing is given and nothing to pass on so they will pay the same. You would have to register at the boat and pay council tax there and then I guess the second home rate on your house

Our marina thankfully lost its 16p/kwh deal in February - and signed a, what seemed expensive , 3 year fix at 0.25p a week or two before Ukraine happened. Now it seems a very good deal
But then last year red for heating cost me 88p and now its 135 and that seems ok compared to filling up the car. Death by a thousand cuts