The latest energy stories
Market moves, regulator decisions, weather events and practical advice — every story is written for UK households by the Selectra UK team. Page 1 of 4.
Carbon monoxide alarm: who is actually required to have one in the UK (and the real danger)
Underfloor heating: why switching it on the night before the first cold snap is already too late
Firewood: the simple test that tells you whether your logs are dry enough to burn
Heating 100 m² this winter: £1,650 on oil, £1,140 on pellets, £1,060 on gas, £1,050 with a heat pump
Putting the heating back on: the three-day rule that stops your first bill of winter running away
Electric car: battery full but it will not start? The test to do before winter
Running a generator in a power cut: the connection that can electrocute a network engineer
Leaving the oven door open after cooking: false economy or genuinely free heating?
Open fireplace: why 90% of your wood heats nothing (and where lighting it is already banned)
Why the heating bill weighs twice as heavily on a pensioner
A pellet stove will not heat without electricity: £53 to £79 of power a year, and it stops at the first power cut
Boiler, radiators, hot water cylinder: what a seller is not allowed to take with them
97% of homes pay full price while the market goes negative: the tariff that pays you to use power
Power cut in your street: why calling your supplier is a waste of time, and the number that works
A sink waste disposal unit: are you actually allowed to plumb it into the sewer?
'That part is not made any more': why your repairer is almost always wrong
Loft insulation: the three first-day mistakes that cost you for years
Fuel prices: the forecourt ten minutes away can be £9 a tank cheaper
Public charging: the same kilowatt hour costs 54p or 92p, and what decides which you pay
Why France sells about 3 times as many heat pumps as the UK
Plug-in hybrid: why the 180 mpg on the showroom label means nothing
Buried supply cable fault: find the cut-out in 30 seconds to know who pays
Wood burner smoking into the room: the open-window test that finds the fault in 30 seconds
Smoke alarm chirping at 3am: why it stops by morning and starts again tonight
Radon: why insulating without ventilating pulls more radioactive gas into your home
The free boiler scheme ends in 85 days: what ECO4 still pays for, and what comes after
Heating oil has more than doubled in a year: £1,007 for 900 litres against £473 last September
Electric car: the cost per mile charging at home versus a diesel
External wall insulation: the law gives you no right to cross the boundary. What you must get first
