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Many people in my country charge at night. We get a cheaper rate - 7.5p/kWh vs 30p as the grid has excess capacity at that point.
by thebruce87m 3y ago
Many people in my country charge at night. We get a cheaper rate - 7.5p/kWh vs 30p as the grid has excess capacity at that point.
- vlovich123 3y agoHate to break it to you, but that's definitely not getting charged off solar then and possibly not wind either (depends on how the grid is being maintained).
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agoIt is probably largely nuclear. Nuclear plants pretty much never get turned off since they're roughly free to run, and there's much less power used at night.
- thebruce87m 3y agoIt’s mostly wind: https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/ https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/
- robocat 3y agoCool. It is misleading picking Scotland - power is fungible across borders. Otherwise I could claim I was green because my house is next to a hydroelectric dam and I could claim the guys house next to the coal fired plant is bad. the graphs shows interconnects but I couldn't see any power exports to Europe. I presume if there is extra wind generation at 5AM it gets exported to countries that are waking up.
- thebruce87m 3y agoI live in Scotland, where should I pick?
- robocat 3y agoThe relevant figures are for the UK as a whole. If you add load then that marginal extra power comes from the UK network. The interconnects with Europe make it more difficult to know the marginal difference in CO2 production. I live in the South Island of New Zealand which has huge hydropower - power is sent to the North Island via the undersea DC link: https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/hvdc-transfer https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and... So if I add load then what matters is where the marginal extra power demanded is generated from across the whole network (even if that is in the North Island).