Ron.Rapp

@HMRCcustomers Tom Hi my question isn't about my pension it's to confirm their payment to me on the 6th April 2027 will be treated as income in the 2027-28 tax year and not the 2026-27 tax year.

@ron_rapp2 Hi Ron, HMRC don't administer the State Pension. You'd need to contact the DWP's State Pension helpline gov.uk/contact-pensio… Tom

@HMRCcustomers Hi just realised that my state pension which starts on the 25th August is paid every 4 weeks. So is my last payment for the 2026-27 tax year on the 9th March as the subsequent one is on 6th April 2027 which is the first day of the new 2027-28 tax year?

Hi I've changed personal pension provider can I add them as an income provider?

Hi just read your piece on Black Sabbath the album Technical Ectasy doesn't get a mention. Where do you placebit in their discography?

@josh_jackman Hi just been reading your post on best SEG rates on the Sunsave site. There seems to be an error in that the table under ScottishPower where you list Best import tariff as E.ON Next Drive Fixed V7!

@Grepsul Jonathan hi just read your fascinating article. Towards the end you speculate about the impact of Net Zero on ageing assets. In the incidents recorded is there any correlation with EV charging load or the dirty power frequency angles?

I've written something about why electricity substations keep catching fire. Is it - as Bond baddie Auric Goldfinger might have said - "enemy action", or something more mundane but no less worrying?telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/2…

@BBCJustinR Hi just read your article on curtailment. Wondered how LDES might change that picture? If those resources were deployed strategically around the grid either near the generation or where current grid is restricted then power could be moved and stored!

@LejeSvend @DrSimEvans And that's just batteries there's more innovative LDES solutions that this money could help like Highview or RheEnergise.

@DrSimEvans Imagine the size of a battery, one could buy for 4 x 500m £. Would even increase the price of wind and solar, thus helping profitability and stabilizing the energy system.

THREAD: New UK govt contract with Drax biomass power plant * 4-yr contract 2027-2031 * £113/MWh (2012 prices – £155 in today's money) * Output cap of 6TWh (<2% of UK supplies, cf recent yrs 12-15TWh) * CfD cost ~£500m/yr * 100% of fuel must be "sustainable", up from 70% 1/5

@Ragcha @DrSimEvans Chris Hi try this link REF are a charity with no stated political affiliation. Unfortunately social media is full of partisan sites spreading FUD. The new Seagreen farm is affected worst probably lack of grid capacity from Scotland into England. ref.org.uk/ref-blog/384-d…

@ron_rapp2 @DrSimEvans Can you share an article explaining this? The stuff I found on Google was inadequate for my level of understanding. It seems every effort must be made to end this ASAP with more batteries and better transmission…

What's keeping UK power prices so high? (Gas) We thought about writing our shortest article ever: "Russia turned off the gas taps; they're still mostly off. The end." But where's the fun in that? Here's our deep dive:

@TorbenSchust @DrSimEvans Most people don't even want a Solar plant near them so they'd be over the moon with a Nuclear plant. Never mind batteries blowing up. Imagine a nuclear disaster like model Chernobyl, Fukushima, 3 mile Island, etc. And that's not even taking into account bad actors!

@DrSimEvans Why build intermittent wind requiring massive build out of grid infrastructure for small localised generation when you could build a small number of nuclear stations. Strip out the over regulation and hey presto a robust and reliable grid x.com/s8mb/status/19…

@Ragcha @DrSimEvans They call it curtailment it's criminal. In 2024 8.3 TWh of wasted energy and a direct cost to consumers of over £393 million!

@DrSimEvans Can the UK get more wind power from reconductoring its grid? I gather a lot of that power is wasted. And I’m thinking it would be the fastest way to lower prices. Voters don’t have patience to wait five years for lower prices.

@kaya85kaya @DrSimEvans Probably because they are the worst CO2 per kWh produced. We keep slating China for using them so it's kind of refreshing to give up the fuel that gave birth to the industrial revolution.

@DrSimEvans The issue is we used to have a fleet of coal power stations that insulated us from gas price spikes but for some reason we decided to blow them up

@DrSimEvans So how do we marginalise the marginal gas? Is the grid failing to use the other stored energy sources effectively or our the CCGT owners playing the market?

What's keeping UK electricity prices so high? Answer in a chart… carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-…

@MartinSLewis It's disgusting that investors will be penalised for investing in safer cash ISAs. It's a fundamental right within the investor community to communicate your risk profile and your advisor to adapt your investments to suit. Forcing people to take higher risk ISAs is just wrong.

Rachel Reeves gave a statement on ISAs to the BBC today. Reading between the lines its seems that, she is still considering announcing a cut specifically to the cash ISA allowance for new money (rumoured from current £20k down to as low as £4k) as part of Autumn Statement. Done in the (I suspect mostly forlorn) hope people will shift to investing that money, as the investment (& total) ISA limit would stay at £20,000 or even rise. In my view better investment education, communication and widespread accessible guidance would be a more effective way to the same goal. Here's what she said... "‘I’m not going to reduce the limit of what people can put into an Isa but I do want people to get better returns on their savings, whether that’s in a pension or in their day-to-day savings. ‘And at the moment, a lot of money is put into cash or bonds when it could be invested in equities, in stock markets and earn a better return for people. ‘And so, one of the reasons why we’re looking at advice and guidance that financial firms can give to their customers is to make sure that people are making informed decisions about how to invest their money, whether that’s their pension savings, or their Isa savings. ‘So those are things that we’re looking at, but I absolutely want to preserve that £20,000 tax-free investment that people can make every year.’

@Samanth85593555 @carolvorders Glad to see Trump pays his taxes then towards keeping the US afloat hence his transparency when it comes to tax returns. If people really think he's looking after their interests and not his more fool them.

Stocks go down as well as up, and turbulence is expected as this is a new world we are entering. The bigger picture is that America is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Trump must pull every lever at his disposal to pull back from the brink, so I support this move. If other countries hadn’t taken the USA for granted and treated it unfairly we’d all be in a much better place. And due to Brexit we are in a much stronger position than the poor old beleaguered EU, if we discard censorship and return to true democratic principles, not the rule of the elite that your pay lords are protecting.

Apple down 8% Nike down 11% Amazon down 7% Trump tariffs wipe £1.5tn off Wall Street Going well then for the Tangerine Bigot aka President Trump ?? theguardian.com/business/2025/…

@iamogidigidi @KShevchenkoReal I've heard of appeasement before WWII how did that work out?

The level of hostility Europe displays toward Russia is deeply troubling. Rather than pursuing strategies to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine, European nations continue to fuel the war through funding and military support. What if Russia retaliates? The consequences could be catastrophic for all parties involved.

⚡⚡⚡Germany just confirmed it seized the Russian-linked oil tanker Eventin—part of Moscow's #ShadowFleet—replaced its entire crew, and took ownership of all 100,000 tons of sanctioned oil aboard. It's the first time an EU country has stepped up with such a bold move since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. #Sanctions just got real. #MakeRussiaPay Photo: @AP

@engineers_feed They're truly a global organisation then?

Flat Earth society has offices around the globe

@EdConwaySky Ed nice to see the Trump administration has not read your book & thinks the material world isn't like it actually is. Hope other countries will keep Canadian Aluminium plants going. Given the lead time on nuclear plants I wish the US all the luck in the world making their own.

🚨 Here's a thread about ALUMINIUM. Why this commonplace metal is actually pretty extraordinary. How the process of making it is a modern miracle... ... which also teaches you some profound lessons about the trade war being waged by Donald Trump. And why it might be doomed. 🧵

@NavarroThinker @Tesla Not recent innovation though in terms of car models.

Tesla continues to revolutionize the automotive industry with its cutting-edge electric vehicles. From the sleek Model S to the versatile Cybertruck, Tesla's commitment to sustainable transportation is unmatched. With their advanced battery technology and expanding Supercharger network, Tesla is making EVs more practical and accessible than ever. Elon Musk's vision for a cleaner, greener future is coming to life, one Tesla at a time! #Tesla #ElectricVehicles #SustainableFuture

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@BritainRemade Hi attached is a map of all the Onshore wind projects in planning, awaiting construction or under construction source DESNZ! As our cheapest form of renewable energy not great to see a big fat zero on the map!