On 22/05/2021 12:45, wrote:
Spain is not often noted for leading the way but their new pricing for electricity, which has three price periods per 24 hrs, and includes weekends, seems better than the UK's E7 system.


There has always been some element of tariffs which vary by time in
Spain. Originally when they started rolling out new meters they insisted
that you had room for two meters in the meter box.

There is also one big difference between Spain and the UK. In Spain you
pay for the size of your feed via the standing charge. So unlike the UK
where you pay a flat charge, in Spain its per maximum load. So you can
choose between rates from around 2Kw up to 10Kw.


This along with proposed surge pricing (for periods of high demand which could have had user agreed load shedding) was the great opportunity that the UK government managed to waste with the superfluous (and entirely passive) smart meters.


In Spain they have the same Smart meters except that they are mandatory
and as a customer you must pay for them. They also enforce the above Kw
limit so if you exceed your maximum load your pweer blips.

The irony is that Spain started this to lay the way for electric car charging overnight but if take-up is big, then the high power cars will suck up might make usage overnight a high price rate period! Not many people will want to drive at night and charge during the day to save money!

https://www.eyeonspain.com/blogs/liv...e-pricing.aspx


Power in Spain seems mire unreliable in the UK.

Dave