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He seems cautious to commit to his own view on zonal pricing. It comes across in reading it as an injection of false balance? “It’s a bit hard, so maybe it’s not a good idea”. The likes of Octopus are biased in favour, but they’re bringing the answers to the difficult parts to remove the barriers.

Wow @gjuk.bsky.social and @octopus.energy, what a day! Such an inspiring event with an unbelievable line up of speakers! …and reorganised for 6x the capacity in just five weeks 🤯 How can I secure a place for next year?! #octopusenergytechsummit

I take it back! They’ve fixed us up, so we’re back to being excited! Thanks team Octopus 👍

I won tickets, but when I went to claim them it turned out they didn’t exist. Ts&Cs suggest that’s not how it should work… so what’s going on??

@robinince.bsky.social If you’ve not already discovered it, Bookcase in Carlisle is four floors of mostly used books (they have a map to find your way around) that I think you could spend several days in :-) Well worth a look if you’re near, and has a cafe in the back too. www.bookcasecarlisle.co.uk

40% of Britain’s power is renewable, so why aren’t your energy bills lower?

We’re operating thousands of wind turbines on a system designed for a few coal stations.

It’s costing you billions. We need reform.

Watch our CEO @gjuk.bsky.social make the case for zonal energy pricing:

YouTube video by Octopus Energy Octopus CEO explains zonal energy pricing

Scotland produces so much clean energy, yet Scots pay some of the highest bills globally.

Just yesterday, Britain wasted enough wind to power Scottish homes for 3 DAYS. It cost £7,504,366.

Zonal pricing could give Scotland some of the lowest bills in Europe: youtu.be/8-WUhBtB_CM

Very good! Not terrible, but a bit patchy for me just over the border.

No, indeed, but you could upgrade yours if you wanted to.

Didn’t understand, check 😂

So I reckon you’re a bot, you didn’t read my post, or you didn’t understand my post. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Logical fallacy alert. That’s a false dichotomy. It doesn’t follow that because something isn’t perfect, it has no value at all. Scrutiny by reputable reviewers is much better than no review at all.

Tesla have about 20% market share for EVs in the UK(?), so those would seem about right. New sales might be more telling as so many people seem to lease now, so their could be a lag in them appearing for sale.

Interested to see how Tesla respond. Would be a shame for them to be sidelined because of politics/personality.

The world’s largest battery storage system just got even larger The Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility, the world's largest battery storage system, has been expanded to 750 MW/3,000 MWh.

Might be in the UK, but the current largest one I could find is in California at 3,000MWh. BYD are apparently planning one that will be 12,500 MWh!

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YouTube video by Fully Charged Show It's Back...It's Electric! ZAPHEAP Challenge Needs YOU!

It's back . . . and it's electric

Two teams, two batteries, and a junkyard: what could possibly go wrong?

youtu.be/thifCyml94Y

Wow, very good. We started strong but a lot of it dropped away. Much better here yesterday.

Things might be different if gas/oil/coal heating also had to cover externalised costs like impacts to healthcare and climate.

UK gas distribution are actively planning for a transition to hydrogen and trialling on existing infrastructure. Maybe nobody has told them it’s probably a waste of time (and money). I guess it’s hard to accept the alternative that their business is coming to an end.

I’m sure all your hard work will pay off! (and if not, blame it on them?! 😂)

@sarahgogreen.com Have you stopped using Bluesky? It’s a sunny day for us and I thought you might be posting with good news about getting some solar yourself, but I can’t see any posts of yours here for several weeks!

A different approach to stewarding over the last few years might have avoided this too. If fans think teams or drivers are being allowed to get away with too much, they become the villains. If they’re reprimanded, that goes away?

Someone needs to ask Severn Trent why their price rises (claimed as needed for improvements) over the next 6yr seem to generate an additional ~£14BN, but they’re only giving examples of projects to the value of £243M, i.e., less than 2% of the total.

Ahh, ok, I’d been trying to use the “Add info” option.

@octopus.energy How can I add overstay charge details to the Electroverse app? The option to add details is limited to images and things like accessibility. Many thanks.

The success (or otherwise) of robotaxi feels like it will have a bearing on things too.

Thanks for the original link though.

Yeah, it’s the light grey area. It’s ok though. I’ve seen your website. I understand your agenda. The articles I looked at set out to prove a predetermined view, which isn’t very scientific.
We can wind this conversation up too, because it won’t be very productive if you’re closed minded about it.

That doesn’t seem to be correct. There are some lumps and bumps along the way, but the drop in coal use doesn’t seem to correspond with an increase in gas overall?

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