Great blog here
octopus.energy/blog/agile-p...

But no explanation of higher standing charges

Fair standards of living is crucial, but I'm trying to find out what wealth taxes the UK had in the 50-70s? I find that Estate duty was like an inheritance tax and that a one off wealth tax was there in 1948 (Special contribution of the Finance Act). But no recurring wealth tax?

Interesting! But as I understood the Warwick study this was for a one-off wealth tax, not a recurring one? Or did I understand it wrong

Love this concept. And you could combine it with filling up the last two or three wagons at another station on the way maybe.

I guess practically it would be super hard to get border police on a train maybe? But should be explored what happens to people that can't continue

The biggest saviour is that interrail reservations have stayed at 30€ for eurostar.

But they are happy to keep supplying it with gas?

More interconnection is good for europe as a whole, but how can Norwegian households be made to benefit from exporting their electricity? Similarities with France and nuclear.

Great Episode! However I'm struggling to find some of your recommendations on people to follow in the topics at minutes 5 & 6. Would you mind writing them down? Your website's automatic transcript did even worse than me 😅

Warum? Electricity maps und deren flow tracing algorithmus ist tatsächlich die beste datenbank um diese debatte zu informieren. Sie berrechnen genau pro halbe stunde wie viel strom von welches Land zu welches andere fließt und kriegen daraus gCO2e/kWh.

Die dokumentation ist ganz auf Github

Sehr spannend!

The main reason why wind is considered rather than gas is because it is cheaper, especially when current carbon pricing (not allowing companies to pollute our air for free) is included

How does this compare in the UK?

Great initiative! We need more efforts like yours

In so many ways Bluesky is so much nicer than ex-Twitter or other social media. Somehow under this post it's not the case yet 😅

Est ce que McFly & Carlito serait une petite exception?

Check out this website for more info (available if you live near a handful of wind farms in the UK & Germany afaik)
www.octopusenergygeneration.com/blog/the-oct...

Plus for people who don't have a feeling for what 70k miles means, putting these numbers in context would help.

A quick search tells me that petrol cars tend to last 200k miles and electric cars 300k miles. No source but if true that would be very relevant context for an 🍏 to 🍎 comparison 🙂

Assuming charging at home/overnight, that would bring down the British cost break even from 70k miles to 25k (or 110 000 km to 40 000 km).
Btw why didn't you put miles & km on the graph?
Even 5-10% rapid charging doesn't change the numbers much.

Great charts/research! @ainsliejstone.bsky.social @michellehennessy.bsky.social @oliviafvane.bsky.social
The growth of dynamic electricity tariffs for EVs will be the key to bringing down the costs of home charging: 23.8p/kWh on a fixed rate vs 8.5 p/kWh overnight for the EV night rate at Octopus

They probably assume that most charging can be done at home (often not true if you live in an appartment/in a city without dedicated parking), but also that charging happens at the basic electricity rate. You can get a lot better deals!

Source (paywall) www.economist.com/graphic-deta...