I'd be interested to hear if anyone actually gets paid (overall lower bill for consuming during the specific hour). Although generator companies can be willing to pay a bit to get rid of energy, in order to get their subsidies, there would presumably be costs for use of network. Perhaps some suppliers' tariffs stick that mainly in the fixed cost rather than the kWh cost.
(I live abroad, and pay an hourly spot-market energy price. It's been very low or negative recently. But the network charge and the 'energy tax' are each about as big per kWh as the normal energy price, so the overall cost per kWh is still some 60% or more of the usual. That said, I've recently been thinking, and studying a little, that this network charge is inordinately much. Looking at the OFGEM site it seems the charges made by UK DNOs must be lower.)
I'd be interested to hear if anyone actually gets paid (overall lower bill for consuming during the specific hour). Although generator companies can be willing to pay a bit to get rid of energy, in order to get their subsidies, there would presumably be costs for use of network. Perhaps some suppliers' tariffs stick that mainly in the fixed cost rather than the kWh cost.
(I live abroad, and pay an hourly spot-market energy price. It's been very low or negative recently. But the network charge and the 'energy tax' are each about as big per kWh as the normal energy price, so the overall cost per kWh is still some 60% or more of the usual. That said, I've recently been thinking, and studying a little, that this network charge is inordinately much. Looking at the OFGEM site it seems the charges made by UK DNOs must be lower.)
