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RE: Electricity price predictions

@mattengineer Yes, now that I have found this site I can see the OCGT was producing 0.25GW between about 1530 and 2100 yesterday.

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

@derek-m Aaah, OK. I was misled by one website which lumped oil and OCGT into one category. I guess the OCGT could still be running on natural gas, ...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Wait for Powerwall or go for alternative? High electric usage

@benseb 120kWh of electricity a day is rather high; a reasonably sized battery would struggle to make a dent in the bill from this. To what extent h...

3 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Electricity price predictions

:-/ Wholesale gas prices are now up to 480p/therm = 29.8p/kWh of electricity when passed through a CCGT. Interestingly the national grid generation ...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Wait for Powerwall or go for alternative? High electric usage

If you have a Powerwall and solar panels then you can sign up for the Octopus Tesla plan which is currently around 26p/kWh plus 45p/day standing charg...

3 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Looking to make our 2 bedroom Victorian mid-terrace house greener

Well, the Solar Together scheme has let us down as we received a telephone call yesterday saying our roof was too complicated for them to do within th...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

The (3 x 150A for the batteries and 2 x 150A for the inverters) class T fuses and fuse holders arrived, around 100 hours after ordering. They lo...

3 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Electricity price predictions

The spot-price of gas is somewhat high at the moment, currently 373p/therm. 1 therm = 29.3kWh, which assuming 55% efficiency of a CCGT power station m...

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

I got the import duty bill from DHL, so add another 20% onto that. However this does provide good short-circuit protection, from a more trusted brand ...

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

@diverted-energy I have private messaged you with the details. There were no restrictions on the Growatt being imported (CE marked, so all that is O...

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

The 3 Growatt SPF5000ES arrived on 30th July, having ordered them on the 15th June. They cost just short of 700 USD each, including DDP delivery. Plea...

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

I saw this just after I'd ordered 3 of these from Henry at Seplos. I was glad to converse with him, especially when it came to power cable connectors....

3 years ago
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Energy Storage
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