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EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2026
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I often get paid for charging mine. They paid me 30p on Sunday.
How?
(No need to go into too much detail as I'm not in the UK; I'm just curious)
I assume that electricity price sometimes goes negative when excess is produced, resulting in some providers paying you for using electricity at that time.
🤔 Interesting. I never even considered what happens if excess energy is produced
It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off.