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NedS

It's always nice in summer when the evening sun / solar keeps our import at zero until past 7pm and these peak rates don't worry us. That said, equally we're not able to make full use of cheap daytime pricing as we're effectively running on solar at a SEG price of 15p regardless of the Agile price - we try to run all the heavy usage items in the cheapest 30min slot and then run the rest of the day on solar (today we had the ASHP on to reheat the water tank, the washing machine and the air fryer for lunch all on at 1:30pm)

JKenH

Has anyone any idea why electricity prices are so high this evening? We are only using about 14GW of gas and wind isn’t particularly low at over 5GW.

https://electricinsights.co.uk/#/dashboard?start=2025-07-01&&_k=818wqu

NedS

Gas is currently over 50% of our overall generation, wind is low and solar obviously dropping to nothing. I guess gas is dominating the pricing.

MikeyPGT

JKenH said:

Has anyone any idea why electricity prices are so high this evening? We are only using about 14GW of gas and wind isn’t particularly low at over 5GW.

https://electricinsights.co.uk/#/dashboard?start=2025-07-01&&_k=818wqu

My understanding is that the gas generators set the price for everyone even if they are providing only a tiny amount of what is needed so they can rip us off whenever the wind drops or the sun don't shine!

EssexHebridean

Ugh - in spite of keeping things as low as possible last night we still ended up a whole 4p over the cost on SVR yesterday - the nerve of it!  

wrf12345

s/c elsewhere has gone down from 52.9 to 50.76 but remains unchanged at 66p on Agile, naughty...

Bendo

wrf12345 said:

s/c elsewhere has gone down from 52.9 to 50.76 but remains unchanged at 66p on Agile, naughty...

The world doesn't revolve around you. Agile SC remains 1p lower than SVR for me. Nothing naughty about it.

wrf12345

"The world doesn't revolve around you. Agile SC remains 1p lower than SVR for me. Nothing naughty about it."
A very small percentage of people had their s/c go up rather than down on variable, London and some other areas, I think, but most people had it go down, although still at an outrageously high level. Agile which saves the Grid at peak times merits zero s/c so current values make no sense.

debitcardmayhem

wrf12345 said:

"The world doesn't revolve around you. Agile SC remains 1p lower than SVR for me. Nothing naughty about it."
A very small percentage of people had their s/c go up rather than down on variable, London and some other areas, I think, but most people had it go down, although still at an outrageously high level. Agile which saves the Grid at peak times merits zero s/c so current values make no sense.

What will you do if you get a BUS for an ASHP, surely your consumption will rise and then SC will seem much a lower %age. 

wrf12345

"What will you do if you get a BUS for an ASHP, surely your consumption will rise and then SC will seem much a lower %age."
Grant would be for solar plus heat pump, but one problem at a time, please...