Economics of charging at 7p and exporting at 15p

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Re: Economics of charging at 7p and exporting at 15p

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Ha! can you remember when we used to discuss payback in terms of years!

how the times change

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Re: Economics of charging at 7p and exporting at 15p

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nowty wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 4:14 pm £182.03 profit for last month, enough to buy 3 x 450W PV panels including delivery from City Plumbing or 4kWh worth of LFP cells including delivery from Fogstar. :mrgreen:

Rinse and repeat. :twisted:

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Impressive Nowty but a little bit too much pink on that import chart :hysteria:
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Re: Economics of charging at 7p and exporting at 15p

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Yes a bit too embarrassing for me, 3 feckups in one month and quite large ones too. :oops:

It does not take much peak rate to wipe out several days worth of profit. :evil:
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Re: Economics of charging at 7p and exporting at 15p

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nowty wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 9:51 am Yes a bit too embarrassing for me, 3 feckups in one month and quite large ones too. :oops:

It does not take much peak rate to wipe out several days worth of profit. :evil:
It wouldn’t for us mere mortals that make pennies a day but those crisp £20 daily notes take a bit more to wipe them out. But you’re doing big numbers so feck ups do cost quite a bit.
When I forget to adjust something the annoyance at fecking it up is completely out of kilter with the cost :head-bang:
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Re: Economics of charging at 7p and exporting at 15p

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My first ever month of positive figures also featured some F-ups and 3 days where the Octopus-connected EV wasn’t home so limited to the 6-hr cheap slot.
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Stinsy wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 10:08 am My first ever month of positive figures also featured some F-ups and 3 days where the Octopus-connected EV wasn’t home so limited to the 6-hr cheap slot.
Congratulations, nice to be on the right side of the line.
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Re: Economics of charging at 7p and exporting at 15p

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Not in Nowty's league for profit but not a bad month for the not so sunny North compared to the sun-blessed south and no fancy import cost graphs either (yet!).
Missing £11.51 of export from the 14th April for some reason.

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Re: Economics of charging at 7p and exporting at 15p

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Fintray wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 8:28 pm Not in Nowty's league for profit but not a bad month for the not so sunny North compared to the sun-blessed south and no fancy import cost graphs either (yet!).
Missing £11.51 of export from the 14th April for some reason.

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Surely you have beat me at export and if your import is all at cheap rate your profitability is similar.
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Re: Economics of charging at 7p and exporting at 15p

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nowty wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 9:45 pm Surely you have beat me at export and if your import is all at cheap rate your profitability is similar.
£158.89 estimated but not confirmed.
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