On 26/03/16 19:59, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:59:15 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

There are other objectives here I think - such as being able to ramp
costs up and down in the day according to demand, as they will not be
able to generate enough in a few years.

Without any linked, automatic, method of load shedding when the price
is high all the adjusting the rate for the consumer is going to do is
make the costs totaly unpredictable. Even if you could load shed I
doubt the savings will be that great.

well the real issue is peak clipping.

There have been a couple of times that leccy prices peaked at up to 40p
wholesale, for a few minutes.

getting rid of those is good



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