Charlie Weston
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1,990 appearances
20 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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€540, €550 in network charges is steep, to put it mildly.
And so it seems unfair.
I would say it's unfair that the consumer gets clobbered to such an extent here on network charges.
It's a huge cost.
It should do, but you have to, on balancing that, counterbalancing that, Matt, is the fact that data centres, we have 23% of the electricity in this country is used by data centres, very high by international standards.
Yes, we need data centres.
Yes, we all use the internet.
Yes, we have a lot of techie companies here, but we have a huge number of data centres, more coming on stream.
They use vast quantities of electricity.
So you might get more, we are getting more renewable onto the system, but a lot of it's taken up by data centres.
Well, it's probably in there somewhere.
But, you know, I mean, it's just the way this is done seems very unfair.
It seems, you know, this is a big infrastructure investment.
You know, should that be levied on your bill as well?
I mean, you know...
And then, you know, we have family, a big family having to pay huge electricity bills, you know, and even though it's, and then it's the wealthy people who can afford to put up panels and afford an EV because there's a lot of big upfront cost here.
They're the ones that are doing okay.
But, you know, people who don't, who have home heating oil, have electricity, they're absolutely clobbered here.
So you talked about energy credits.
There may be some in the budget.
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