Octopus saving sessions

debitcardmayhem

NESO published requirements for today

debitcardmayhem

Nothing to see here, move along. Accepted bids circa 100-110 no bids from Octopus

Lorian

New requirements for today.  I wonder Huw much people will bid and what will be excepted.

born_again

Lorian said:

New requirements for today.  I wonder Huw much people will bid and what will be excepted.

Given weather today. Certainly not much energy saving going to be happening.

debitcardmayhem

appears that they only want 150MW 1600-1630

Lorian

And they did not get it. Not many bid and the ones that did all north of 600 and rejected. Octopus don't look to have bid.

victor2

I suppose it's all part of the "let's see what the suppliers and their customers will do" experiment.

pete-20-11

There are cheaper ways of filling the gaps, so we probably won't see many sessions and they won't be very well paid.

The cheaper methods aren't exactly green, environmentally friendly, but they are concentrating on providing a value for money service. 

I guess if we don't agree with the approach we should write to our MP given NESO is gov owned. But whether we'll see change, who knows. 

That said the cheap method is expensive to have on standby - gas plants paid lots of money to be on standby and charge a little bit more when actually needed. Gas is getting more expensive, so maybe things will change. 

matt_drummer

Or we could just do the `decent' thing and cut down a little bit when asked to, if possible?

Does everything need to come with a disproportianate financial reward for us to help?

Spoonie_Turtle

matt_drummer said:

Or we could just do the `decent' thing and cut down a little bit when asked to, if possible?

Are we being asked to?  If it weren't for this thread I'd have no idea that anything was potentially needed.

What I mean is, if they wanted to they could still send alerts asking people to reduce usage even if there's no financial reward.  Those who are willing to do the decent thing without financial incentive would.  But as it stands you have to be proactively looking to know when the grid could do with a bit of help, and unless hearing about it from others (like this thread) then the people not proactively looking - i.e. the vast majority of the population - won't know about it to potentially do anything in the first place.