14-04-2026, 17:34
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Re: UK Energy Prices
The government has to frame it as something they are giving to the public.
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15-04-2026, 11:01
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Originally Posted by Paul
Households could get free electricity for doing washing on sunny weekends.
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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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15-04-2026, 11:35
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Re: UK Energy Prices
With a renewable grid the cheap times are set by the weather not the companies.
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15-04-2026, 11:38
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Originally Posted by downquark1
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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15-04-2026, 12:42
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Originally Posted by Taf
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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https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live
Just look here, the less blue you see the more likely it is to be cheap.
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15-04-2026, 17:54
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Re: UK Energy Prices
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taf
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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Correct. 
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15-04-2026, 18:00
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Re: UK Energy Prices
We get 16 hours free electricity every Sunday from 8am until midnight.
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16-04-2026, 11:48
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
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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16-04-2026, 16:33
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Originally Posted by nashville
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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Yesterday, 12:47
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Re: UK Energy Prices
Octopus Prices Don’t Add Up… What’s Really Going On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXl5DwHOvOo
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Yesterday, 13:41
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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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Yesterday, 13:49
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Re: UK Energy Prices
Clickbait
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Yesterday, 15:26
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Re: UK Energy Prices
The longer you view the more they get that is why they waffle
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