There was an Octopus powerup between 9am and noon. The idea behind powerups is that excess green energy should be absorbed instead of the local operator having solar/wind farms take capacity offline.
So, when there's a powerup, we try and really take advantage of the free electricity - running electric heaters, the tumble dryer etc - shifting any usage that we can into the powerup period.
Normally, we absorb quite a bit of energy
Today though, was by far, the worst that we've had: So, what went wrong?
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