Warm windy days are my friend

I’m on the Agile Octopus electricity tariff, which means that the price of my electricity changes every half hour depending on the cost of electricity generation. The cost is predicted each day and so I can plan when to do things like charge up the car, bake a cake or smelt some aluminium.

I love it when the weather is warm and windy. This means that demand is low and the wind generators are busy. For the last few days the cost of power has been very low (everyone being on holiday probably helps too), with more than a few occasions when the price went negative and I was being paid to consume electricity. I didn’t actually get up at three am to get paid to charge the car, but I was very tempted.