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• Centrica to use customers' hot water tanks to stop blackouts

  29-09-2019 17:08 via theguardian.com
  British Gas owner to harness smart appliances to help balance National GridCentrica, the owner of British Gas, plans to use its customers’ hot water tanks to create a virtual power plant which could help National Grid prevent future blackouts.The UK’s biggest energy supplier hopes to harness household gadgets with energy capacity equivalent to a large power plant by 2025. The plan could help to balance the energy system without any perceptible impact for British households. Continue
  
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• ‘I gave away our stuff’: the minimalists doing more with less

  29-09-2019 09:12 via theguardian.com
  Growing numbers of people, partly inspired by Marie Kondo, are ditching consumerism for a simpler lifeIt’s time to declutter. Fuelled in part by Marie Kondo’s call to eschew anything that does not “spark joy”, a growing number of people are questioning whether they are better off with less in life – from old jackets stuck under the stairs to unnecessary shopping trips and gadgets that clog up the home, or even a property that is larger than they need.This new push t
  
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• Retirement and me: Travelling the world at 61 - how one retiree funds trips of a lifetime

  29-09-2019 05:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  RETIREMENT AND ME is the weekly series which takes a look at how retirees are spending their time and money during their later years. This week, Sheree Hudson has spoken to Express.co.uk about funding her adventures which takes her all over the world.
  
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• Tesco has it tough enough already without a no-deal Brexit

  29-09-2019 00:59 via theguardian.com
  In a fiercely competitive market, the last thing the supermarket chain needs is lettuces left to wilt at a hard border with the EUWhen Tesco reports first-half results on Wednesday there will be less than a month to go until the Brexit deadline on 31 October. The law says the government must seek an extension if no deal is agreed by 19 October but Boris Johnson and his allies are trying to find ways around this.Tesco’s results will be an opportune occasion to ask Britain’s biggest gr
  
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