I know this is sad and geeky, but I'm very excited...
I switched our electricity recently to an 'agile' tariff that changes every 30-minute slot, based on demand. It's been as low as 6p at the odd brief period during the night, and as high as 47p during mid-afternoon, but on average has been around 15p... which for us, working from home in an old and leaky house with only electric heating has meant saving literally thousands for the year.
But anyway... for the first time tonight and tomorrow, we'll see negative prices! Not much, just around -0.7p for the odd half hour, plus exactly 0p most of tomorrow.
We're giddy with excitement and trying to work out what we can charge up! The missus is always moaning about the hot water being used up by the various teenagers and their multi-hour showers, so that'll be going on from midnight until tomorrow 4pm for a free batch of topped-up hot water. Her EV should cost about 5p to fill up... we'll do some washing. And oh boy, are we gonna celebrate the end of a cold winter (in our house at least)... we're gonna crank the shit out of everything and SWEAT tomorrow! Oh yeah.
Cheap leccy
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Do you have a solar farm as well, ie: are you feeding back into the grip as well as using?Slenver wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:41 pm I know this is sad and geeky, but I'm very excited...
I switched our electricity recently to an 'agile' tariff that changes every 30-minute slot, based on demand. It's been as low as 6p at the odd brief period during the night, and as high as 47p during mid-afternoon, but on average has been around 15p... which for us, working from home in an old and leaky house with only electric heating has meant saving literally thousands for the year.
But anyway... for the first time tonight and tomorrow, we'll see negative prices! Not much, just around -0.7p for the odd half hour, plus exactly 0p most of tomorrow.
We're giddy with excitement and trying to work out what we can charge up! The missus is always moaning about the hot water being used up by the various teenagers and their multi-hour showers, so that'll be going on from midnight until tomorrow 4pm for a free batch of topped-up hot water. Her EV should cost about 5p to fill up... we'll do some washing. And oh boy, are we gonna celebrate the end of a cold winter (in our house at least)... we're gonna crank the shit out of everything and SWEAT tomorrow! Oh yeah.
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Re: Cheap leccy
No, nothing like that, sadly. We just pay out usuallyRockburner wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:50 pm Do you have a solar farm as well, ie: are you feeding back into the grip as well as using?
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Who are you with?
Sounds interesting and my kids would definitely be keen to know more.
Sounds interesting and my kids would definitely be keen to know more.
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I bet that costs a few squid....
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Have you ever won anything on the game when you submit your meter reading, I've had fuck all?
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Me too.
But there's always a free Gregg's sausage roll and hot drink.
Though that's beneath me.
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Yeah but you never win, so that's moot.
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I get a free Greggs Sausage roll every weekend from O2.Slenver wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:18 pmMe too.
But there's always a free Gregg's sausage roll and hot drink.
Though that's beneath me.
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Re: Cheap leccy
An arm and an arm and an arm etc .... and a leg?
Even bland can be a type of character 
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Well, the contract is inked now, no going back.Horse wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:43 pmAn arm and an arm and an arm etc .... and a leg?
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I won £1 a couple of months agoKungFooBob wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:15 pm Have you ever won anything on the game when you submit your meter reading, I've had fuck all?
We are on Octopus Go since I purchased the Tesla just over a month ago. 9p for 4 hrs overnight. Fill up/to pup the car and Powerwall during those 4 hrs and we use that during the rest of the day. With the solar recharging the battery and exporting at 8p if we get the sunshine.
An example of the solar yesterday. We generated 10.8kWh, 68% used by the house, 13% went into the Powerwall, 19% (1.8kWh) was exported to the grid. On a very good day we can generate 24kWh if we get the sunshine on our small 3kW East/West system.