▲ 505 ▼ EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK (www.carbonbrief.org) submitted 1 day ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 144 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1429718/evs-are-now-9-times-cheaper-than-petrol-or-diesel-to-drive-in-the-uk
[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 point 8 hours ago (3 children) How? (No need to go into too much detail as I'm not in the UK; I'm just curious) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children) I assume that electricity price sometimes goes negative when excess is produced, resulting in some providers paying you for using electricity at that time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] percent@infosec.pub 1 point 5 hours ago (1 child) 🤔 Interesting. I never even considered what happens if excess energy is produced permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children) I assume that electricity price sometimes goes negative when excess is produced, resulting in some providers paying you for using electricity at that time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] percent@infosec.pub 1 point 5 hours ago (1 child) 🤔 Interesting. I never even considered what happens if excess energy is produced permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 point 5 hours ago (1 child) 🤔 Interesting. I never even considered what happens if excess energy is produced permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off. permalink fedilink source parent