5 September

What Chirs Bowen should also point out to counter the idiot ‘when the sun doesn’t shine’ social media slogan is, we’re ASLEEP mostly when the sun doesn’t shine. We don’t need anywhere near as much energy then. Even businesses who historically have used cheaper off-peak electricty overnight won’t need to any more, because they can generate their own energy almost for free, during the day. Off-peak rates only ever existed because you can’t switch off coal plants overnight, so they needed to find some way to offload the power when nobody actually wanted to use it.