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The government has to frame it as something they are giving to the public.

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First the "carrot mode": cheaper or free electricity at off-peak times to push the last of the "Luddites" into having a smart meter.

Then we will see "stick" mode: peak power periods become more expensive, training us to only use power at off-peak times. And those periods will be set by the power companies.

Once again, the belief is that we all work 9 to 5 jobs, Monday to Friday, as they believed when Work From Home became a thing.

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With a renewable grid the cheap times are set by the weather not the companies.

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So when the sun goes in and the wind drops to a whisper, we will suddenly have no cheap or free power.

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Yes that's exactly how it works. I had free power over Easter because it was windy.

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Just look here, the less blue you see the more likely it is to be cheap.

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Correct. :D

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We get 16 hours free electricity every Sunday from 8am until midnight.

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That’s a good saving, What compan6 is that !

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EDF, if you reduce your peak hous use Monday to Friday (4pm to 7pm) then you get max 16 hours free on Sunday. We're normally not here until after 7 so use very little late afternoon.

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Octopus Prices Don’t Add Up… What’s Really Going On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXl5DwHOvOo

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2 minutes in to a 7 minute video and he’s still outlining the circumstances. What’s the tl:dr here - what does he think is going on? Youtube videos are such an inefficient way of commincating anything that can be summarised in a paragraph of text and a graph.

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Clickbait

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The longer you view the more they get that is why they waffle

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Outfox have automatically taken my first Gas smart meter reading on 29 April 1.5 months after my switch, I had given up hope and was about to email them to get it sorted.

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Just about to start my first Grid Event with Axle Energy. Will take power from the batteries for an hour to balance the local grid and we'll get £1.15/kWh.

Anyone with a solar and battery system want to get involved they're offering a £20 sign up bonus or I can send you a link where we both get £25. I withdrew my £20 and it was in the bank in seconds,