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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

Well I'm glad to see some adventurous thinking @mjr Let's keep the discussion going and see where this leads. Firstly there are only five ALCS cha...

3 years ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Solutions are available @editor - ones which could be targeted at the most needy far better than the '£250 to everyone' which the government has just ...

3 years ago
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

It is a fine detail... but alas, you've jumped to the wrong conclusion. 😟 The internal offset timing within our Smart Meter Comms Hubs is precisely...

3 years ago
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

If you'd like to know more, then there's a rich repository of published material in Ofgem's archives, such as this Presentation by Tim Bailey. He was ...

3 years ago
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

Yes @derek-m that's how the National Smart Meter Network was always intended to operate. It was designed back in 2013 during the coalition government,...

3 years ago
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

Thanks @derek-m but I'm still unsure that I've adequately clarified the system. No one controls the offset. Each Comms Hub is implanted with a rando...

3 years ago
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

I think I haven't explained the system sufficiently clearly. Octopus cannot inform a customer of the meter time-offset because they don't know it th...

3 years ago
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

So we are in agreement about how this offset works. I'm glad to have that confirmed. I'm assuming that the 'issues' which @philiprsteele refers to a...

3 years ago
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

To allow others to follow this discussion in future, let me point out that Smart Meters can have two sorts of hardware control over external loads. ...

3 years ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions

That's true. But I'm also allowing some headroom for the double-pole mains isolator, cabling, mains changeover switches, trips and the DIN-rail enclos...

3 years ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions

That's £2000 for the battery cells and the BMS, which is the electronic box that provides balancing and protection. I'm including an approximate amoun...

3 years ago
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

I'd like to pick up this point about the development of standards for Smart Devices which operate within the framework of Demand Side Response. I'm ...

3 years ago
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