Soldato
Its not unfairly penalising someone to pay market rate when the market rate is variable, and they want to use significant energy when the grid pricing is high. Thats not unfair its quite reasonable.
Right now if someone is a massive consumer of electricity during peak they are in effect being subsidised by everyone else that isn't as the grid scales up and brings online very expensive extra capacity, but everyone in effect shares out the cost.
The 11 oclock thing is nonsense. The peak window is much shorter than that. And no one is saying dont use any energy then, but for example putting the dishwasher on and the washing machine etc at that time would be very uneconomical than deferring that until later.
If you take a look at Octopus Agile you can see the peak window varies by day and time, bear in mind these prices are not equivalent to "normal tariffs" right now as they are now working on a higher capped price more in line with expected Oct cap.
You can see how they vary. This is Eastern area, obviously all areas vary slightly.
There is historical data available for 30 minute windows, by area since Agile incepted if you want to see how it functioned pre energy price explosion (it was more logical and obvious then how moving usage off peak was highly beneficial)
| 2022-09-06 00:00:00 | 47.47 |
| 2022-09-06 00:30:00 | 47.47 |
| 2022-09-06 01:00:00 | 45.20 |
| 2022-09-06 01:30:00 | 47.37 |
| 2022-09-06 02:00:00 | 46.13 |
| 2022-09-06 02:30:00 | 42.07 |
| 2022-09-06 03:00:00 | 48.51 |
| 2022-09-06 03:30:00 | 46.46 |
| 2022-09-06 04:00:00 | 55.13 |
| 2022-09-06 04:30:00 | 52.92 |
| 2022-09-06 05:00:00 | 50.10 |
| 2022-09-06 05:30:00 | 60.20 |
| 2022-09-06 06:00:00 | 65.01 |
| 2022-09-06 06:30:00 | 71.44 |
| 2022-09-06 07:00:00 | 72.41 |
| 2022-09-06 07:30:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 08:00:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 08:30:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 09:00:00 | 75.94 |
| 2022-09-06 09:30:00 | 70.56 |
| 2022-09-06 10:00:00 | 59.98 |
| 2022-09-06 10:30:00 | 55.13 |
| 2022-09-06 11:00:00 | 57.55 |
| 2022-09-06 11:30:00 | 57.15 |
| 2022-09-06 12:00:00 | 55.57 |
| 2022-09-06 12:30:00 | 51.00 |
| 2022-09-06 13:00:00 | 55.13 |
| 2022-09-06 13:30:00 | 50.80 |
| 2022-09-06 14:00:00 | 67.65 |
| 2022-09-06 14:30:00 | 64.21 |
| 2022-09-06 15:00:00 | 72.10 |
| 2022-09-06 15:30:00 | 74.97 |
| 2022-09-06 16:00:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 16:30:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 17:00:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 17:30:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 18:00:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 18:30:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 19:00:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 19:30:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 20:00:00 | 77.99 |
| 2022-09-06 20:30:00 | 65.01 |
| 2022-09-06 21:00:00 | 71.66 |
| 2022-09-06 21:30:00 | 55.74 |
| 2022-09-06 22:00:00 | 55.04 |
| 2022-09-06 22:30:00 | 33.08 |
| 2022-09-06 23:00:00 | 47.19 |
| 2022-09-06 23:30:00 | 42.74 |
