You can hardly open a paper or switch on the TV news these days without seeing all the doom and gloom. What is, in one respect, fascinating about the cost of electricity and heating this coming winter is the fact that it seems to go up by a few hundred pounds every day. Only a couple of weeks ago the energy price cap was going to be £3,200 or so. Then it went to £3,500. Then £4,250. And then at the weekend, it was quoted somewhere as £5,500!
No matter which set of figures you believe, one thing is for sure, and that is that energy bills are going to skyrocket over the next few months. This is why more and more homeowners are considering buying a generator because there are two main advantages. First, you have a standby power unit if the electricity goes down – which does seem as though it is becoming more likely. Second, it may well now be a very considerable amount cheaper to generate your own electricity rather than use the usual supplier.
Of course, you do have to take into account the cost of buying a generator in the first place, and to a large extent that will be decided by the amount of power that you need to produce for your home or business. That is a subject for another day.
You Don’t Necessarily Need A New Generator
However, you don’t necessarily need to buy a new generator because you can find used generators for sale in the UK. It is very similar to buying a used car. Very often businesses that use generators will need to upgrade and get a larger one as they expand, and so they trade in the old one. As one of the foremost generator suppliers in the UK, at Blades Power Generation, we always have a stock of used generators for sale in the UK that customers have traded in with us.
You will also need a changeover switch for when the power goes down, and you can get a manual one or an automatic changeover switch. If you have a manual switch, it means that when the power goes down you have to fire up your generator and then switch over to it.
An automatic changeover switch does this, well, er, automatically! So, when the power goes down it will fire up your generator and – boom! – the lights are back on in a matter of seconds.
