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Boris' battery drive - London to go green for electric cars...
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 01:09:37 on Thu, 28 May 2009, David A Stocks remarked: .. A similar mechanism already exists for off-peak domestic customers using night storage heaters, who get a contract stating something like "you get 7 hours of cheap rate elctricity between the hours of 2300 and 0800 the following morning", together with a radio controlled switch for that part of the supply. The switches are used by the local suppliers to manipulate their overall load in order to buy bulk electricity at the best market prices from the generators. What they forget to mention quite as loudly is that you get charged *more* for the daytime electricity, not just *less* for the night-time. Unless at least a third of your consumption is overnight, you will end up paying more overall. I was on Economy 7 for a couple of years. Bloody nightmare. Possibly cheaper than normal if you're careful, but if you do need more heat or some hot water in the day, bad luck. The solution to expensive electricity is not Economy 7 and storage heaters, it's gas! Also, due to an error in which the night and day totals got mixed up, i was once billed for 7000 GBP ... tom -- Interesting, but possibly aimed at madmen. -- Charlie Brooker, on Torchwood |
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