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23:25 - Friday night, not too chilly. UK is consuming 24GW. 2.7% from Renewables- 2.3% Wind 17% Nuclear 2.1 Coal and wait for it.. A whoppi...
Cornwall Insight has been accurate right through, 12% last Oct, 54% April and last few weeks to 67%, 72%, then finally 77% last week, where a week lat...
Well, this one has certainly headed off at a tangent.. If we isolate our gas production from global markets, what do we say if every other countrt d...
I wrote to our Energy Secretary in May in respect to Condensing Gas Boilers being cowboy fitted without restricting output to match the property. Th...
@charjes2 definitely. More efficient and more robust. I've had lead acids for years. Lithium much better for many reasons.
@editor 3yr to 4yr.. and ONLY if government pulls it fingers out and massively invests in Renewables, both on private roofs and big projects. The lo...
@derek-m I also wrote to my MP. Why North Wales and Liverpool are charged quite significantly more for both KWH and SC. The main interconnects for I...
Predictions for October CAP Rate announcement: Im going with 87%
@chickenbig coal has pretty much been 24/7 for many weeks now. It shows how desperate we are that in middle of Summer, coal is needed, even at off pea...
@mike-patrick take that as an indication of things to come: They are predicting what the actual cost is going to be over the next two years, that me...
it will one day fall again, never as low as it was but that bargain won't last long. Especially as Gas gets diluted more out the mix. I was and will...
I heat my daughters pool with a homemade panel. Obtain: Sheet of Kingspan 4x2 timber Aluminum heat spreaders, used in underfloor heating 15m...
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