Mastodawn

Matt Gray Apr 7, 2024

I'm on an unrestricted variable electricity tarrif.
My price per kwh is about to go negative for 3 hours*

I can get my oven and air con unit to fight each other, and be paid for it!

*it's so windy that there's nowhere to put all the energy the turbines are generating, so they pay (mostly industry) to use it up. The price shoots up in the evening when everyone starts putting their heating on and cooking dinner. People on a fixed price tarriff are paying ~25p/kWh all day in the UK right now.

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Aphrodite (recharging)

@mattgrayyes

I’m happy with my fixed rate CAD 0.10 (€0,068; £0.058) tariff where we have a vertically integrated crown corp generating 95% of its power carbon free at point of production (CFAPOP).

My friends in Montreal are happy with their CAD 0.067 (€0,045; £0.039) with their vertically integrated crown corp generating even higher CFAPOP percentage.

Privatisation makes us worse off.

Worse, encouraging consumption like this is a Jevons paradox. Needless use encourages more use.