It is a typically gray day in North Holland, with an occasional drop of drizzle. Today’s gray weather has a significant impact on the electricity price.
Expensive laundry
Due to the lack of sun and wind, which normally provide cheap energy, the price of electricity has risen enormously. For people with a dynamic energy contract, it is wise to limit their energy consumption today, as the average hourly price already reached a record high yesterday and is even 50 percent higher today.
Between five and six o’clock this afternoon the price can rise to as much as 1.2 euros per kilowatt hour. Nothing will change for households with a variable or fixed energy contract, they pay the rate set in their contract.
It can freeze or thaw
As for the gray weather, the chance of drizzle will decrease this afternoon, and it will be dry in most places by the evening. Tomorrow the sun will slowly break through, although the clearing may take a while.
It may freeze on Friday night, but from Sunday the mercury will rise again, with 10 to 11 degrees in prospect. It will then remain dry, although the chance of rain will increase again later in the week.