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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

Looks like you got lucky and missed the supply chain issues. Seplos appear to be having big problems fulfilling orders (some of their July orders are ...

3 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Solar Thermal as a pre-heater for a heat-pump

Taking this to the extreme, one could eliminate the intermediate air and use a water source heat pump, with the water/antifreeze mixture heated up by ...

3 years ago
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Solar Thermal & Power Diverters
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

There would be a pretty good chance that the container would be on a ship to Felixstowe. Enclosed is a photo from 1 week ago (only one crane operation...

3 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Now that really does make batteries worthwhile. A 5x difference in price is crazy; even with 80% round trip efficiency you're at 9.375p/kWh. I'm guess...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

When is your battery due to arrive? A month on from ordering, mine have not even shipped yet. I wanted the 200A BMS (plenty of headroom to disconnect ...

3 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

The Mason 280Ah battery kit big build has been published on Off Grid Garage! One concern is the packaging of parts for transport; the BMS could hav...

3 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Electricity price predictions

To be fair, electricity exports are running at around 4 GW net. Not sure why this is the case, but perhaps this is simply an alternative way of transf...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Some sort of pricing transparency would be a good start. Yesterday morning I tried to trace what wholesale price actually meant. See section 2.4. ICI...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Being more permissive of onshore wind in England, as well as solar farms, would be a good step. But these will only ease the gas used to run power sta...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Looking to make our 2 bedroom Victorian mid-terrace house greener

@majordennisbloodnok The Solar Together named installer (Everyone's Energy) has sub-contracted the work to an (anonymous) company (with a Bishop's Sto...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Electricity price predictions

@derek-m Looking at the government report "Electricity Generation Costs 2020" page 25, the costs for a modern CCGT station in 2025 is estimated to b...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

@editor Doing a bit of further digging, there is quite a difference between wholesale gas prices (and so the cost to run a CCGT) and day-ahead elect...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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