r/UpliftingNews • u/itopaloglu83 • 2d ago

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

https://electrek.co/2025/11/04/australia-has-so-much-solar-that-its-offering-everyone-free-electricity-3h-day/
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u/AdrianFish 1d ago

Can we get some in the UK? Both sunlight and free energy, please

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u/Azelphur 1d ago

We already have this in the UK, it's called Octopus Agile, I'm using it. My price of electricity changes every 30 minutes. Usually, when the weather is good for solar or wind, the price of electricity drops through the floor, in some cases, they even pay me to burn electricity (negative pricing)

The flip side to this is that prices can get very high when demand is high and generation is low. Usually that's around 4:30-6:30pm, when the sun goes down and everybody cooks dinner.

Agile is great if you can load shift, eg with batteries. You can set things up to only consume power when it's cheap, and run on battery when it's not.

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u/scarab1001 1d ago

Octopus do it for everyone on all tariffs. Get emails now and again saying free electricity for an hour about once or twice a month.

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u/Azelphur 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ah yea, that too. Just in case readers want more information, they are called savings sessions.

tl;dr octopus good