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1: There is a very strong benefit to us consumers. Without implementing a staggered time offset, there will need to be a massive rise in the cost of...
Is that Crabtree RCD protecting a number of circuits @geo3geo ? When it trips out, what else gets affected? Ignoring the legal aspects, how compe...
Thanks for raising this issue @geo3geo I've been investigating tripping issues with a set of inverters by Growatt for several months. We are not alo...
It's important to see this from the viewpoint of the grid rather than individual consumers. We can't afford to build a grid or power-generation faci...
Yes @chickenbig - Vehicle to Grid (or Vehicle to Home) is the sort of 'consumer driven' approach which needs to be evident. But let's look at the cu...
Well it's not so much of a side-track, but a separate entity.I'll explain the issue, but let's try not to muddle them together. To make smart use of...
This Smart Meter issue is more similar to Post Office 'Horizon' than it is to HS2. Our equivalent of HS2 in the energy sector is the proposed massiv...
That's a very obvious and straightforward question @jeff but the answer is clouded in mist. I'm not an Agile customer.I'm currently using Go, so the...
I'm not against having APIs for accessing tariff information via the internet. But I do believe that Energy Suppliers should be required to implemen...
Au contraire. The SMETS2 specification has a standard feature called Block Tariffs which already provides such functionality. There are many ways ...
I think that level of security is called parental controls. It's like my mother used to say "Never trust a man with an old Mac" 🙄
I never switch off the main computers which are used for external/internet communications.They might have the screen locked, or the memory put into Su...
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