Last seen: Oct 8, 2025
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Whether you go with what installers recommend depends on how you intend to deploy the batteries. If they are configured as part of a set up which in...
That's the way to go @batalto The cost of lithium batteries has been steadily falling whilst energy-prices have been rocketing. That means the brea...
A Greed Grid is an appropriate metaphor to describe the underlying reasons for the current energy crisis.
The original intention with this list was to make it into a PP Slideshow and have it running whilst participants arrived for an energy seminar. If a...
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