I love the Wasted Wind website.
The figures are eye opening!! 👀
wastedwind.energy/2024-12-16
Energy Stats UK
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Energy Stats UK
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- Yesterday, Thu 20-02-25 Yesterday, wasted wind cost Britain: £17,225,039 £3,786,044 switching off wind turbines £13,438,994 buying energy elsewhere That's 109,260 MWh of green electrons: enough to power 3 Londons for a day. Source: wastedwind.energy
- Yesterday, Wed 18-12-24. Wasted wind cost Britain: £12,614,972 £4,172,190 switching off wind turbines £8,442,781 buying energy elsewhere That's 84,887 MWh of green electrons: enough to power 2 Londons for a day. Powered by: wastedwind.energy
- This is game changing and opens up a myriad of possibilities. Charge overnight at 7.5/8.5p and then export back at 15p? Solar owners happy? Wind / hydro happy? Battery owners delighted? Folks with V2G could be rubbing their hands!! 🤑 I can't wait to see the predicted numbersBOOM yet again @g__j & @OctopusEnergy team delivers. Octopus to move SEG customers to Outgoing Octopus at 15p/kWh
- National average pricing for @OctopusEnergy Agile Tariff: Sun 02-07-2023 Min: -19.4p (14:00) Max: 24.8p (22:00) Avg: 2.3p Avg Excl Peak: 1.0p Peak 4pm-7pm: 11.2p Get graphs & pricing for all 14 UK regions at energy-stats.uk
- Overnight News. @OctopusEnergy Intelligent Go is now available to @myenergiuk Zappi users. Kudos to @g__j, @shocky100, @JordeeBrompton and @myenergiDrChris for their hard work. This brings 7.5p overnight smart EV charging to more users.
- Yesterday, Sat-21-12-24 Wasted wind cost Britain: £18,680,371 £7,313,603 switching off wind turbines £11,366,768 buying energy elsewhere That's 118,607 MWh of green electrons: enough to power 3 Londons for a day. Powered by wastedwind.energy BUT............
- Just your occasional reminder when @OctopusEnergy Agile tariff has peaky high pricing!! 1. When renewables are low, the high price of electricity is set by the high price of gas 2. Agile is an optional tariff, you are not forced into being on it 3. Move to a fixed tariff if you
- Today marks 5 years since the first ever Energy Stats @OctopusEnergy Agile tariff pricing tweet. I cannot believe how this account has grown to over 8,000 followers. Thank you so much for sticking around. Open API for the win! 👍 @agile_phil @g__j @shocky100 @pete_millerOctopus Energy Agile Tariff national average pricing for Thu 07-11-2019 Min: 5.38p Max: 25.31p Average: 10.85p Agile vs Go (0030-0430): 7.65p Peak Time (1600-1900): 24.27p Find individual graphs and pricing for each of the 14 national regions via energy-stats.uk
- Yesterday (Tue 17/12/2024). Wasted wind cost Britain: £6,733,406 £1,707,773 switching off wind turbines £5,025,632 buying energy elsewhere That's 45,428 MWh of green electrons: enough to power London for a day. Powered by: wastedwind.energy
- New @OctopusEnergy Tariff Alert: "Cosy" Octopus for Heat Pump owners. octopus.energy/smart/cosy-oct… Here's the API code. api.octopus.energy/v1/products/CO… Love the double dip concept and the deterrent to avoid peak. I will have a think about how best to present all this on the website. 🤔
- This new blog article has been a labour of love of mine for a while now. It's my interpretation of 'Low Temperature Heating' and I hope it helps folks get their head around what that term actually means and potentially take action themselves.
- We've had our Heat Pump Tumble Dryer about 6 months now and thought some real world usage figures might be useful? Any questions please let me know.
- If anyone is considering batteries, it might be worth holding off a little as VAT is dropping to 0% from 1st Feb 2024, even on retrofit (to existing solar) and standalone installations (without solar). Some of the text on the govt site is quite wordy, but it also seems to
