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Octopus Agile
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northernstar007 said:Newbie_John said:I do wonder what has changed compared to last winter. Last year £1/kWh sounded like theory that we will never experience, this year - it's slowly becoming normal during cold, windless days..
Gas prices are only 20% more expensive.5 -
Pat38493 said:northernstar007 said:Newbie_John said:I do wonder what has changed compared to last winter. Last year £1/kWh sounded like theory that we will never experience, this year - it's slowly becoming normal during cold, windless days..
Gas prices are only 20% more expensive.2kWp Solar PV - 10*200W Kioto, SMA Sunny Boy 2000HF, SSE facing, some shading in winter, 37° pitch, installed Jun-2011, inverter replaced Sep-2017 AND Feb-2022.3 -
KevinG said:Pat38493 said:northernstar007 said:Newbie_John said:I do wonder what has changed compared to last winter. Last year £1/kWh sounded like theory that we will never experience, this year - it's slowly becoming normal during cold, windless days..
Gas prices are only 20% more expensive.
It's also not too clear why this is happening, but in the past when this happened it was due to perceived or real lack of supply because of short term outages of generating capacity. However based on my reading of some other forums, it doesn't feel like there is enough of that to justify these spikes compared to previous years, so something weird seems to be happening.4 -
KevinG said:Pat38493 said:northernstar007 said:Newbie_John said:I do wonder what has changed compared to last winter. Last year £1/kWh sounded like theory that we will never experience, this year - it's slowly becoming normal during cold, windless days..
Gas prices are only 20% more expensive.
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masonic said:KevinG said:Pat38493 said:northernstar007 said:Newbie_John said:I do wonder what has changed compared to last winter. Last year £1/kWh sounded like theory that we will never experience, this year - it's slowly becoming normal during cold, windless days..
Gas prices are only 20% more expensive.2kWp Solar PV - 10*200W Kioto, SMA Sunny Boy 2000HF, SSE facing, some shading in winter, 37° pitch, installed Jun-2011, inverter replaced Sep-2017 AND Feb-2022.2 -
I was on Agile back when it had the 35p cap and I’ve been wondering today what their threshold is. How many times can we hit 99p before they update the formula? And I wonder what the new cap would be then..1
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can you jump straight back on agile when you leave (no 9 months waiting like tracker) and if so is it worth taking a fix then jumping back on agile in a week or so0
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BeerSavesMoney said:I was on Agile back when it had the 35p cap and I’ve been wondering today what their threshold is. How many times can we hit 99p before they update the formula? And I wonder what the new cap would be then..
Seen this guardian article:
German utility Uniper and a subsidiary of the Swiss commodities trading giant Vitol offered to fire up their gas plants during the evening hours in exchange for “super-high” payouts of more than 50 times the market price earlier this week, according to experts.Under the system to balance Britain’s grid when electricity supply is short, Neso encourages energy companies to bid prices at which they would be prepared to power up their plants.The Rye House gas plant in Hertfordshire, owned by VPI Power, a Vitol subsidiary, will generate electricity for a price of £5,000 per megawatt hour (MWh), which should earn its owner £6.15m over three hours, according to official market data. The larger Connah’s Quay gas plant in Flintshire, owned by Uniper, will earn just over £6m after agreeing to generate power for a price of £2,900/MWh.VPI Power and Uniper have been contacted for comment.1 -
northernstar007 said:can you jump straight back on agile when you leave (no 9 months waiting like tracker) and if so is it worth taking a fix then jumping back on agile in a week or so
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northernstar007 said:the whole day is a right off, a takeaway is on the cards after a good few hrs down the pub4
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