Last seen: Sep 8, 2025
The National Grid provides a 'balance' of supply & demand, and the 50Hz sychronisation.The energy-mix varies according to your geographical locati...
I agree with @batalto but will add one additional factor: If the Sofar ME3000SP was an inverter which could operate in parallel, then theoretically ...
That's a better explanation than mine @derek-m I'm still thinking through the situation which @chris-a raised, in which he wishes to retain an exist...
Precisely! And for this reason I've just copied your text and the response from @derek-m into a new topic in the area about Solar Thermal. I think t...
Me too @chris-a @derek-m and I have had a previous discussion about whether solar thermal should continue to be used as an input to a DHW cylinder, ...
Mea culpa! Desperately resisting the temptation to respond to @derek-m about the technicalities of combating grid losses and lack of engineering kno...
The graph I posted comes directly from a data-set supplied to me by a very senior engineer/manager at a DNO. He sent it to demonstrate the voltage var...
If it were that simple, that raises the question of why heat-pump manufacturers aren't installing capacitors. Perhaps it is that simple... but becau...
Read what @batalto said about his Pylontech batteries here
If DNOs were to install batteries to minimise phase-imbalance losses, they would need to be sited at local substations. There are 230,000 ground-mount...
I have been discussing the network losses with Western Power Distribution (WPD) over the past 4 years - a conversation which commenced with the Ofgem-...
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