The only obvious difference that's made to my life is that I never get emails from my "CEO" asking me to drop what I'm doing and buy him some iTunes gift cards. Which is something my LinkedIn-using colleagues get fairly regularly.
LinkedIn is a huge centralised database of phishing targets. Whatever upside it might provide to the world, that's a pretty big downside.
It tends to work the other way around - at least in the markets I'm familiar with.
If you're a large consumer of energy and can turn that consumption on or off at short notice (on the order of seconds) then the grid operator will pay you to allow them to scale your consumption up or down.
The classic example of this is cold storage. If you have a warehouse full of freezers which need to be kept within a certain temperature threshold then it doesn't really matter when you run the freezers and you could switch off at several points during the day.
The Super Green tariff uses power purchased directly from renewable generators (PPAs), not certificates (REGOs). It also carbon offsets your gas usage.
Our other no-quite-so-super-green tariffs also provide 100% green electricity but do so using a mix of PPAs and REGOs.
For me, the killer feature for any pushover competitor would be support for actionable notifications which trigger a webhook callback when the button is clicked.
To be honest, I'm not sure that's even possible with iOS's notification framework. I don't know whether the notification payload can define which buttons are displayed, or if they need to be defined ahead of time in the app. But if it could be done I would be all over it.
- https://octopus.energy/outgoing/ works like Agile but also gives you half hourly export pricing. So you can sell excess energy from solar or battery storage back to the grid when the price is highest.
OP here. That looks really interesting. Especially the V2G stuff. I've only just started with Bulb, but I'll certainly consider switching to you in future!
The only obvious difference that's made to my life is that I never get emails from my "CEO" asking me to drop what I'm doing and buy him some iTunes gift cards. Which is something my LinkedIn-using colleagues get fairly regularly.
LinkedIn is a huge centralised database of phishing targets. Whatever upside it might provide to the world, that's a pretty big downside.