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.

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.

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


Octopussy energy have a demand pricing tariff called "Agile" but if
you look at the 18-month graph of average max and min charges you can
an interesting change this year compared to last year even without
drilling down into the data -


https://www.energy-stats.uk/octopus-...stern-england/

Either they have significantly increased their rates for this
tariff or this is because of the La Nina effect. Not sure which
it is.