I learned from YLE that there is actually a negative electricity price right now (thanks mostly to the rainy weather, which forces many hydroelectric power plants to run at full capacity), so I checked out my current price and indeed… having my sauna in the afternoon now, instead of the evening, because, hey, 10 cents is 10 cents 🙂

17 comments

  1. Expect you still have to pay the taxes, electricity company margin and transfer cost. Or if you have fixed price contract you’ll be paying the usual price.

  4. you have to check out spot prices for netherlands. they can range from 200 cnt to -200 cnt/kwh in a day. so very high prices usually in the night and very low in the day, when all the solar is running.
    horrible conditions for solar energy producers

  6. 0,10 cents, not 10cents. And the margin is more than that so it’ll cost you anyway. But basically it’s still almost free so go ahead and heat up that sauna.

  10. True as in that they will compensate you in your electricity bill, but you’ll still have to pay the transfer fees. However, if you really wanted to heat your sauna or mine some bitcoins, no time like the present.

  11. You don’t earn anything unless the negative price is larger than the transfer costs.
    In Finland kWH transfer is always at least 4 snt so if electricity is -0,10snt you still pay 4snt/kWh and get discount of 0,10snt from the next electricity bill kWH.

    So false statement to say “you earn money by heating the sauna”

  13. It’s awful, we haven’t slept for days now because the lucrative pricing forces us to have the vacuum cleaners, pressure washer and hairdryer running every night. And it’s too hot as well, with the stove always on.

  15. Government should make electric vehicles much cheaper now that Finland will have abundance of electricity for the next 50 years.

    Crazy that for the same tesla you pay 13 k less in freaking Norway.

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