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22 Nov
4:19pm, 22 Nov 2024
3,579 posts
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Muttley
How were they to the grid's detriment? Isn't levelling out demand and flattening peak periods a good thing?
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22 Nov
4:34pm, 22 Nov 2024
6,546 posts
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Windsor Wool
LOL Baz, thanks for the reminder! All that extra light to power G's panels in the summer though 
The saving sessions aren't to the grid's detriment at all (in my view). Just a relatively expensive way of incentivising the flex. I read that grid have said that they have contracts in place with gas-fired generators to provide flex at 10% of the cost of the saver session reward tariff. That's not a fair cost comparison tbh as grid also pay a retainer to the stations which wasn't used in the calculations. But that's what they did and that's what's generated the proposed 90% cut in reward. These are all great ideas - using the combined capacity of all those home / EV batteries out there has to be the way forward - it's just that we're in transition. It'll come, one day.
As I typed my email came in too. Hope I get offered an Octopus, will go and read
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23 Nov
9:34am, 23 Nov 2024
5,019 posts
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Shades
My email from Octopus arrived this morning. Don't think there's anything of interest for me.
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23 Nov
11:12am, 23 Nov 2024
6,548 posts
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Windsor Wool
I got one too. I need to re-read to see how I can get the Octopus, LOL!
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23 Nov
11:51am, 23 Nov 2024
7,908 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Just had an Octopus email - free electricity 7-9am tomorrow 😃
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23 Nov
11:55am, 23 Nov 2024
3,585 posts
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Muttley
That's an odd time for free juice, you'd think that's a peak time for people making breakfast and morning cuppas, radiators coming on etc. Maybe they've got a surplus of wind power.
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23 Nov
12:00pm, 23 Nov 2024
3,586 posts
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Muttley
Hmmm, looking at the details it's only the extra over what you usually use that is free. Not worth it for me, I suspect. I'm all electric so I'll have everything going at that time anyway.
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23 Nov
12:11pm, 23 Nov 2024
20,258 posts
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Mandymoo
We have free electric today 3pm - 5pm and then free tomorrow 7-9am
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23 Nov
12:26pm, 23 Nov 2024
5,021 posts
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Shades
I was going to delay my early run tomorrow until the wind subsided, supposed to be 9 a.m.
So free electricity will suit me well instead, I'm normally running at that time and using minimal power.
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23 Nov
12:33pm, 23 Nov 2024
3,587 posts
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Muttley
On second thoughts, I have signed up. Not getting anything off the solar panels today and likely tomorrow too. So I can run the immersion heater for as long as it needs and I might as well turn on things like the towel radiators, why not if it's free.
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