Saving Sessions / Demand reduction thread

I said before but may not have been in this thread
When I looked at the last set of auctions (you know where they sign the contracts to supply the national demand at £x/MWh) there was a decent chunk of demand flexibility in there, so its basically baked in for the capacity calculations.

At the price we are being paid its still amongst the cheapest they can secure.

The scheme was also only scheduled to last until March in previous years, so even if there was demand post April 1st there was no approved mechanism in place to actually trigger the bidding process for demand reduction.
Its now basically permanently in effect so could happen at literally any point.
 
reef said:
No chance I'm doing this. If it's sunny they'll schedule a slot, steal all of my export and battery and normal household usage would then be full rate.

People not on IOG/IFlux are getting all usage free in the hour (the emails sent out are different). Can't help but wonder if this is a trial on separating EV/ standard usage. The moment Octopus start doing this on their tariffs is the moment I leave Octopus.
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Not true, those people get the additional usage free not all the usage

I find the "steal all my export" a strange reaction and pretty hyperbolic. If you need charge then the greenest units you can use are self generated solar. Its hardly stealing to divert your own generation to your own car.
Whilst the overnight units are cheap and fairly green often they can never compete with your own, especially when the grid is overloaded with renewable generation.
 
My baseline is -1.52 for the hour so just about worthwhile taking part
Today will be sunny so wont drain batts that much and will still end up exporting later

Quite still today so makes sense that as solar is starting to drop off fairly rapidly within the peak usage time that its worth getting some export from us peeps that would do it later anyway
 
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