Last seen: Aug 25, 2025
And that's the issue isn't it? For all the care Tim has taken to give us data in kWh, the final answer is in pounds sterling. The great majority o...
The solutions being discussed here are based on tariffs.I ought to point out that using price-based solutions to the energy crisis can't resolve the p...
Yes... but it's marginally more difficult if you start in a topic about battery storage with the words "no solar" in the title. 😉 Start by ...
Hiya @mike_r1958 - and thanks for your interest. I've had battery storage systems 'working' for 5 years. But that doesn't mean the equipment is in a...
Unfortunately MK was designed when the national grid was still viewed as a system to deliver electricity.Little thought would've been given to 'revers...
That timescale takes us forward to the final 12-months in which the UK is meant to have achieved Net Zero by 2050! So either @idchappy is installi...
@korwraith - please expand on the comment about EDF circumventing the Randomised Offset to the Tariff Table 'in the same way as Octopus'. I'm not aw...
@toodles - the majority of objections to the existing charges are based on the way in which the 'social obligation' is only levied on electricity, not...
I'm afraid that level of confidence in large-scale commercial BESS isn't supported by the evidence. My MP currently has two ongoing cases in which t...
Yes. DUKES allows for this by de-rating those sources of generation which exhibit intermittent output: Yes, but I disagree with the strateg...
Two good points there @toodles 1: NGET have undertaken modelling to check the required increase in grid capacity if everyone with a car changed it t...
I've quickly read through the DUKES 2024 figures (for the year 2023), which were released at 10:00 today.There was an omission which I've had to sourc...
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