Last seen: Sep 18, 2025
@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...
There is high correlation with the amount of government subsidy and the labour charge made by installers. 🤔 OTOH there's little correlation...
The turbines originally designed by Proven have been successfully deployed in many rural homesteads.Proven themselves is no longer a trading company. ...
Hi @chandykris and you're very welcome here. Let me turn around the way in which that 14kW figure is expressed. The heat pump is sized according t...
@ianmk13 - I think new MPs are of benefit to 'us'. At this stage of their political career they are more likely to realise that they don't know enough...
The 'inward investment' in British energy projects isn't being done out of any concern or benevolence towards us consumers. In that article about LA...
Indeed @derekm and the concept of CEGB is to be re-invented as Great British Energy, headquartered in Scotland. As Ed Miliband MP made clear in the ...
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Ok. Two schools of thought. The first is to run the ...
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