Octopus saving sessions coming 1st Nov

[Ronski]

have you finished? I find that if I set mine to export from 1600 then when the batt gets to the bottom of my export limit (15%) - which should see me through to 2 a.m. - then it stops exporting but doesn't start feeding the house but imports at peak rate instead! Which it has just started doing! Getting it to stop that is sometimes a bit of a struggle.
Thanks for the prompt to check it, I started exporting at 1730 but have switched if off now... How I wish I had bought 2 big batteries rather than just the one!

Finished until 19:30, then the system will continuously calculate export power to reach 15% SOC at midnight, then charging starts at 00:30 through to 5:30, but they'll reach 100% before that.

It's a Victron system, and I wrote my own code in Node Red to handle it automatically, same for free electric and saving sessions. Incredibly flexible and powerful system.

[nowty]

I thought today was going to be the day but am at sea and too tight to pay for the satellite comms.

Just connected to a French network to find I missed it.

Still I’ve been making a small daily profit with Nowty Towers on battery arbitrage autopilot for the past 3 weeks.

[Ronski]

£2900/MWh and they give a poxy amount to reduce consumption, shows they are not really serious!!

Its absolutely ridiculous, according to the Guardian they paid up to £5000 / MWh, as I said on another forum, its just more money for the fat cats.

I wonder if the author realises there is a cheaper way, and one the rewards normal people???

[Stinsy]

I think the problem is that theese big suppliers have big budget to lobby the industry. Us lot notsomuch.

It should be obvious to everyone that paying consumers to turn off is better than paying industry to burn FF. But we get pennies and they get millions!

[Yuff]

The whole structure for electrification is farcical.
From EV drivers paying too much for public charging….. to paying gas power stations double what customers get paid to help keep the lights on during peak demand ……..

[dan_b]

This is where you could also make an argument that this kind of nationally critical back-up infrastructure should be state-owned? It's obvious that the Grid needs some sort of dispatchable generation for when we have dunkelflaut, but perhaps it shouldn't be left to private companies to price-gouge from it in the small number of times a year it's actually required?

[Moxi]

Absolutely it should be state owned but the successive band of idiots that ran/ run the country have sold off the assets and frittered the money away on vanity projects and now we are back with empty pockets and infrastructure replacement requirements and all they seem to be able to say is "please sir can you build us a new power station and we will tax the people over the next 60 years to pay for it" absolutely ludicrous popularity politician carp! thats putting us further and further in to servitude.

ahhhh thanks I feel a bit lighter now.............

Moxi

[AE-NMidlands]

Isn't this just another example of where our economic structure has been going for years now? Since Thatcher (at least) state assets have been progressively commandeered by a relative few so that they can be exploited for their gain. KleptoCapitalism? The population exists to allow these few to extort whatever wealth can be extracted.

At least some of the management of the grid is back in the public sector, and they are making noises about the railway (but not doing much.) Will the politicians have the spine to properly nationalise anything else? Somehow I doubt it.
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[Stinsy]

Isn't this just another example of where our economic structure has been going for years now? Since Thatcher (at least) state assets have been progressively commandeered by a relative few so that they can be exploited for their gain. KleptoCapitalism? The population exists to allow these few to extort whatever wealth can be extracted.

At least some of the management of the grid is back in the public sector, and they are making noises about the railway (but not doing much.) Will the politicians have the spine to properly nationalise anything else? Somehow I doubt it.
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On the other hand we have an entirely incompetent public sector that wastes huge amounts of money delivering little-of-value. Look at the famous "bat tunnel" as an example!

At least in the capitalist system the electricity is delivered. The lights don't go out. We just get fleeced in the process. If these plants were government controlled they'd not work when we need them to and we'd all be sat in the dark!

[Yuff]

Isn't this just another example of where our economic structure has been going for years now? Since Thatcher (at least) state assets have been progressively commandeered by a relative few so that they can be exploited for their gain. KleptoCapitalism? The population exists to allow these few to extort whatever wealth can be extracted.

At least some of the management of the grid is back in the public sector, and they are making noises about the railway (but not doing much.) Will the politicians have the spine to properly nationalise anything else? Somehow I doubt it.
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I don’t think these clowns will ever recover from taking the winter fuel allowance away from pensioners whilst giving train drivers a £10k rise and they promptly stopped working overtime because surprise surprise they can afford not to…….

My baseline for the savings session is 12.50 and I exported 2.5 roughly