UK households to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soar | Renewable energy

Irony is that I'm getting a solar battery installed tomorrow and because I couldn't extend my current solar panel layout, I'll probably end up using that 3 hours of free power to charge the battery up

I was being facetious.

I fail to see how any of that would improve cost savings in the next quarter.

We could be doing many amazing and wonderful things, but, alas, blowing each other to bits is the best that humanity can manage. I await the Great Asteroid to cleanse humanity of its sins.

Only on certain tariffs. We have wide uptake of smart meters. Anyone with a smart meter should be getting free energy at peak times to prevent curtailment of renewable energy.

I think it's just unethical/morally wrong for parents to charge rent, unless they are VERY hard-up. Parents should not, as some apparently do, use rent as a bloody moralistic object lesson about being an adult or whatever (The Guardian has done article(s) about that). If they want to make a point, just talk to your children. Most British children now need EVERY single penny if they want a mortgage deposit, parents who don't need to should not drain one bit of that! If they do charge rent, the power isn't exactly free. Anyway, weird article title. Seems a bit misleading, deliberately? Since the article really seems to be about running high power appliances at the optimum hours for renewables. You'd think The Guardian is above bloody clickbait tactics, but IMO they've gone downhill, so who knows? I thought at first it was an April fool. You'd think the Iran war would mean only calls to use less power, renewable or not. I thought that is what a lot of the IMO all too often bloody eco-zealot woke brigade wanted anyway, always use less power, absolutely no matter what. I'm a human induced climate change skeptic, natural climate change may be a thing! The world absolutely needs a SLOW decades-long transition to mostly only renewables, but some of the necessary tech just isn't there yet, is it? And even in the UK, renewables are NEVER always going to work 365 days a year, are they, for obvious reasons? Stupid to think no fossil fuel backup will not always be needed, not that the article touches on that. If only we could get viable nuclear fusion, though who knows what the eco-zealots would say about that? F*** knows if/when the apparently partly crumbling/outdated and/or otherwise inadequate UK electricity grid, will be upgraded as much as it urgently needs to be.

Ah yes, the island of England. The UK currently imports 14% of its energy, so the UK and Europe are already linked with many power cables. * [HVDC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Cross-Channel) * [IFA-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFA-2) * [ElecLink](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElecLink) * [BritNed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BritNed) * [Nemo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_Link)

Even if it's still tied to gas, the prices will drop a lot in the coming few years due to the sheer amount of renewables and storage coming online. Pumped storage is going to take off in a massive way, there are something like 15 massive projects in the works that can storge tens of gigawatts of power.

We don't have the most expensive energy bills in Europe for domestic customers as that mantle has now been taken by Germany due to the huge investment in renewables here.