Octopus Energy is passing on big electricity savings to British consumers.
  • xyon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    1 year ago

    Definitely clickbaitey title, but some interesting thoughts here. I want to link this up with home assistant or something to get it to automatically pull the power use down somehow when the price is high.

    • ActuallyASeal@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      The writer definitely knows it.

      what is this ridiculous clickbait headline

      Seems like pretty standard variable pricing. Nice most of the time if you can match your electricity demand with price drops. But I do think this kind of pricing is what caused some massive power bills for some people when the Texas grid collapsed in 2021.

      • xyon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, the big concern for me is a price spike that I can’t scale load to avoid. I don’t own this house, so I can’t add something like solar or meaningful battery storage to it as far as I know; I’ve pondered about running the servers from stored power, though, I might look into it again

        • ActuallyASeal@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I feel a ups battery and a smart outlet should be able to do something in that situation but it probably wouldn’t be cost efficient.

          Just realized I don’t know how variable spot pricing works if you have solar and are potentially a producer of net power at certain times. Get credit at spot price? Some flat rate? No credit at all?