▲ 523 ▼ EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK (www.carbonbrief.org) submitted 1 month ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 152 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago (3 children) How? (No need to go into too much detail as I'm not in the UK; I'm just curious) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children) I assume that electricity price sometimes goes negative when excess is produced, resulting in some providers paying you for using electricity at that time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) 🤔 Interesting. I never even considered what happens if excess energy is produced permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children) I assume that electricity price sometimes goes negative when excess is produced, resulting in some providers paying you for using electricity at that time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) 🤔 Interesting. I never even considered what happens if excess energy is produced permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) 🤔 Interesting. I never even considered what happens if excess energy is produced permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off. permalink fedilink source parent