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How to get free electricity in the UK (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, the big concern for me is a price spike that I can't scale load to avoid. I don't own this house, so I can't add something like solar or meaningful battery storage to it as far as I know; I've pondered about running the servers from stored power, though, I might look into it again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I feel a ups battery and a smart outlet should be able to do something in that situation but it probably wouldn't be cost efficient.

Just realized I don't know how variable spot pricing works if you have solar and are potentially a producer of net power at certain times. Get credit at spot price? Some flat rate? No credit at all?