The price increase experienced by electricity in the last year and a half has triggered the electricity bill not only for all homes, but also for small and medium-sized businesses that have been forced to pass the increase on to customers. In the end, we are always the users who want to end up paying more, although we can reduce the consumption of the bill if we take advantage of the time slots in which it is cheaper.
The price of energy for the following day is published the night before, a price that is based on certain conditions, mainly meteorological and that, based on the hours of greatest demand, has one price or another. In the end, energy distributors do nothing more than take advantage of the law of supply and demand. At higher demand, the price of electricity is more expensive than when demand is lower.
If we do not have a fixed rate, throughout the day we are faced with three types of prices generally classified by colors: green, orange and red, with green being the cheapest price and red being the most expensive. If we take advantage of these rates, especially when we use certain types of electrometrics that have a high electricity consumption, at the end of the month we can see a considerable reduction in consumption and the price to pay. To know the price of electricity and adapt our daily chores to the times where it is cheaper, we can use some of the following websites that we leave below.
- TariffLightHour. This is one of the web pages to find out the price of electricity where the average price per hour of the day is shown through a graph that will allow us to know quickly and at a glance, when we should start up the appliances that consume the most.
- Select. Through this web page we can access the price of electricity in each of the time slots. Unlike the first option, a color code is not used to easily know when the time is when electricity is cheapest.
- PriceGas. Despite its name, this website shows the price per kw/hour of electricity in each of the day’s time slots through color codes that make it easy to identify the most expensive and cheapest times.
- Turn off Light. Another interesting website with which to find out the price of electricity through different color codes and where the most expensive and cheapest time slots are shown at the top as a summary.
- Spanish Electric Network. Interesting website where we can see, in addition to the price of electricity, the amount of energy available at that time and what type it is: wind, nuclear, solar, hydraulic and renewable thermal.
If, for work reasons, we cannot adapt, there is no problem, depending on what type of electrical appliance we want to use, since we can use smart plugs to program their operation at the time when electricity is cheaper.
