Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: energy in UK
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:33:50 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 21
Message-ID: <vugv43$qugi$2@dont-email.me>
References: <6cblvjtuqq506j5l5uvvrkvcvj549klff8@4ax.com>
 <vtfhp7$25gv3$1@dont-email.me> <vtipp3$13511$1@dont-email.me>
 <vtka2s$2g8en$3@dont-email.me> <vtme4n$f4pp$1@dont-email.me>
 <vuge0o$bvvn$1@dont-email.me> <vughm4$g21q$1@dont-email.me>
 <k30tdlxlf.ln2@Telcontar.valinor>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:33:56 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4258b98a28bccdbb3d09b4876eca3a65";
	logging-data="883218"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18xifxJRnKjjjPculWMPbqw"
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/102.2.2
Cancel-Lock: sha1:T02DQk0M5JIYvb4sm1oNzlLkjms=
In-Reply-To: <k30tdlxlf.ln2@Telcontar.valinor>
Content-Language: en-US

On 4/25/2025 11:15 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-04-25 19:44, Don Y wrote:
>> On 4/25/2025 9:41 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
>>> On 15/04/2025 21:04, Martin Brown wrote:
>>> BBC Verify researchers did a thing recently on global electricity prices and 
>>> UK Green Energy. Electricity for most British industry is insanely expensive 
>>> (more so than I had thought). Compares a range of countries.
>>>
>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkep1vx3mro
>>>
>>> It is titled
>>> "If the UK has more renewable energy, why aren't bills coming down?"
>>
>> I don't understand "The wholesale cost is set by the last unit of
>> electricity needed to meet demand from consumers". 
> 
> Same in Spain, if I understood correctly the phrase. No, I can not explain it.

Do ALL "wholesale" sales get priced thusly (in computing caps, etc.)?