Kate MorleyThe sun is shining, the wind is blowing a gale, and just 2.4% of British electricity is coming from fossil fuels. See the live data at https://grid.iamkate.com.
happyborg@katemorley ...but we still have to pay for it as if it costs the same as natural gas: 🤔
James Holden@happyborg @katemorley Not necessarily, there are wholesale linked tariffs like Octopus Agile. My total electricity bill so far today is -97p (yes, minus).
kat donegan 🇵🇸✊@jamesholden @happyborg @katemorley i'm on that tariff, but my bill is at an all-time high. do you have solar &/or a home battery? what am i doing wrong? :(
@kathimmel @happyborg @katemorley Yes, solar and battery. It also intelligently charges when it’s cheap to ride out the peak rates. You can see what it’s up to here: https://jamesholden.net/power.html
@jamesholden @happyborg @katemorley thank you. i'm grateful for your reply. i live in a flat, so it's still difficult (& beyond my financial means) to implement solar & a battery. been hoping that decent portable power stations would become more affordable; but, plug-in solar is on the horizon.
jeezo, you're paying per 57 hours what i pay for a day (in a three-bed flat that houses two adult people).
jeezo, you're paying per 57 hours what i pay for a day (in a three-bed flat that houses two adult people).
BashStKid@happyborg @katemorley The quickest way to break the stupid marginal price system would be to allow people to sell their generated surplus to others, within, say, a 30km radius, and ignore the marginal price targets. And that power is delivered first, backing out the gas gen.
Yes, that would need an aggregation system for billing, but it’s not impossible.
If I sell for, say, 10p/kWh, with a 1p transmission cost, my village could all pay 11p/kWh and not 25-35p.
Yes, that would need an aggregation system for billing, but it’s not impossible.
If I sell for, say, 10p/kWh, with a 1p transmission cost, my village could all pay 11p/kWh and not 25-35p.