I'm on the Octopus Energy 'Agile' tariff, which means my electricity price tracks the wholesale price every half hour. I have 3Kw of PV installed facing roughly South and a further 1.2Kw split East-West. I recently had a 5.6KWh grid tied battery installed. I just had my 7th 'plunge pricing' alert of the year, where for a few hours I would be paid for any energy I draw from the grid. At the moment, I'm averaging less than 2KWh import per day and I'm unlikely to be doing so during the negative pricing times, but if I was doing significant miles in an EV, I could install an EVSE with ITTT (If This Then That) integration and be paid to top off the charge.
On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 09:52, EVDL Administrator via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > V2G smells a lot like time of use metering. Too many utilities push TOU > hard, especially in Europe, and then the residents discover that they've > been bamboozled. Despite paying for timers (and often electricians to > install them), they end up paying MORE for electricity. The utilities just > don't offer enough of a break on the reduced rates, and have too much of a > goose on the peak rates. > > Similarly, V2G is all benefit for the utility and none for the EV owner. > You're risking not having a full charge when you expect it, and you're > letting the utility add more cycles to your battery for -- what? Unless > they pay really handsomely, or (heaven forbid) make it mandatory, who's > going to flip the switch, click the button, or sign the form to allow it? > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -- Paul Compton www.morini-mania.co.uk www.paulcompton.co.uk (YouTube channel) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
