THE true measured cost of boiling water for cups of tea using an electric kettle for two pensioners is around 50 pence a day when using electric coming from the new solar panels currently being fitted to council house roofs.

That’s the true cost to the general electric consumer. It’s just plain insanity and the economics of the mad house. At that rate a hot bath would be totally unaffordable.

DOUG MILLS, Fraser Road, Poole