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I see there’s a price drop to 2-3p to his afternoon
I'll turn some heaters on and do my bit too stabilise the national grid even tho it'll cost me money ⚡⚡😉
Looking like another negative price event Wednesday night into Thurs am
Cheap power tomorrow afternoon. I'll try my best to wipe out this week's electricity bill by doing my but to balance the grid. House might get a bit warm though!
Bugger, I've fully charged the car already on the cheap prices over the last few days.
Cheap power incoming on Friday!
Plug those electric heaters in and programme the timers!
There's 3GW of spare power being generated at the moment! Use power for the next 6 hours for nowt!
4 loads of washing and drying done today. Heaters have been on almost constantly as well as the electric UFH.... It's rising and will be all night!
2 days at nearly 60kwh each for me! 18p for 59kw (plus standing charge).
Fabric of the house is storing heat, which at this point in the year it would have been loosing it as I wouldn't be using my gas central heating on these mild days.
2025 hasn't had the greatest Agile start of the year but tomorrow electricity is down to 0.5p/kw for 30 minutes 😮 . Pity my car is fully charged. I'll top up the powerbank with a few hundred watts 🤣
yeah it's been a bit pants what with some nuclear generation being down for maintenance and a long period of grey windless weather. 😠
Definitely getting better again though.
My theory is that the cost and supply of biomass to Drax powerstation has bumped up the cost of energy?
This time last year biomass was only used occasionally and since the coal fired option has stopped i reckon Drax and the network increased shipments of wood pellets from Canada (i think that is where the majority comes from) to bolster the stability of the energy grid?
At last! Some negative pricing 😀 
Our Electricity price is basically based on wholesale gas prices, the only occasion that electric price isn't based on gas prices is if we use zero gas to generate electricity. I don't think that ever happens or maybe it does occasionally, like during a big storm. So the key factor has been the rise in Gas wholesale ( it was around 70p/therm over the summer and peaked at 140p/therm in Feb25, it's now at 100p/therm and dropping ). So, it's that and all the factors influencing it (weather/demand, Russia/Ukraine, gas storage levels in Europe etc etc) plus what shakbait says about UK nuclear plants off line.
Trading Economics do a good summary, it all looks positive for Agile going forward, mild temps/reduced heating demand, Rus/Ukr ceasefire talks, return of 2 nuclear plants over this weekend.
I believe some reasons why this didn't happen last Jan-Feb was a)very mild winter b)Gas storage levels in Europe started the winter at 100% full (this winter they started at something like 70% full). Also I think Eastern European countries were still supplied by a Russian gas pipeline thru Ukraine, That stopped this January I think, putting more pressure on gas price this Jan-Mar.
Yep, super busy washing/tumble drying everything today, all the electric heaters and underfloor heating on 🥵
I don't think that ever happens or maybe it does occasionally, like during a big storm.
Well it does on days like today.... Plenty of solar and wind.
Well it does on days like today.... Plenty of solar and wind.
Still 8% coming from gas according to
Interesting.... We've still had hours of negative pricing yesterday and today!
All my hard work setting the timers for the heaters didn't pay off 😭. One timer was set to switch off at 0230 rather than 1430 so I've pointlessly wasted 1.5kw/h between 4pm and 530pm.
All my hard work setting the timers for the heaters didn't pay off 😭.
TBH I think you really need to automate stuff to really get the most out of Agile.
I have a Pi that checks the rate every 30.mins and then switches things on and off depending upon what I'm willing to pay.
(If the price is <0.1p then it switches everything on regardless) - this way it's simple to deal with those middle of the night price plunges.
Thankfully they are more likely to happen during the day now that solar is ramping up.
I'm right at the bottom of the automation learning curve. I need to improve my knowledge.
Smart plugs and app based timers I should be able to do with ease but I messed up the Govee timer by probably not saving the schedule that is altered.
Roll on the next attempt!
Peaker plants are mostly gas, so maybe the 8% was just in the 4-7pm window, outside that might have been 100% wind/solar/other. I don't know exactly how the pricing works, but I've definitely heard that it's all based on gas prices unless zero gas is used (possibly most recently from Greg Jackson pushing his zonal pricing plan)
Or maybe I'm mistaken and the pricing is just base on predicted mix. Yesterday at 10am when my prices were in negative the mix was
Wind producing 58.3%
Solar producing 13.2%
Nuclear producing 11%
Gas producing 6.1
Or maybe I'm mistaken and the pricing is just base on predicted mix.
It's based on auction prices:
Epex Auction
OE set the Agile price based on this o you can look ahead to the next days auction prices and get an idea of what the Agile prices will be.
Editing....
Only a 55p error with the heater. 
Currently -6p and negative until 4pm
Yep, I'm using my heaters at the moment. Car only needed 8kw to fill the battery this morning so the rest of my negative pricing is going towards reducing my weekly bill. Hopefully I'll knock a couple of quid off? It's possible I might beat my previous effort of a £2.70 reduction. I'll report back tomorrow.
122kwh consumed during negative pricing. Maybe £3 - 4 quid off my bill 🤔
Tomorrow looking cheap, but no negative so I won't be heating up the house.