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Northern California braced for mega power cut
I wonder if this will make people in California (and elsewhere if they also have unreliable power supplies) look at gaining some measure of energy self-sufficiency? While the monetary costs of solar and batteries may not add up when you have a very reliable grid, I'm sure it starts to add up when you don't...…
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RHI Products
Hi I am about to replace my Gledhill hot water cylinder which no longer works. I would like to know if it is possible or even plausible to replace it with a renewable heat incentive product?
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Scotland, 100% Renewable energy reliant soon!
Announced this morning Scotland is soon to produce 100% of it's electrical energy from renewable sources. Today, three quarters of it's requirements are poduced by renewables. Will it be the first of the developed nations to achieve 100%?…
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Are solar panels on a new build worth it?
Hello, So I have recently moved into a small 3 bed new build. Going through the EPC it has a B rating at 83. There are 3 of us in the house and i work opposite shifts to my wife so someone is generally always home. As my previous home was electric only I can't really do any comparrisons to the new property. As it was an…
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Replacing boiler, but we have a Solar iBoost - go with combi?
Hi, We're replacing our boiler and everything seems to be pointing towards a combi boiler, especially looking at this list of pros and cons. The problem is we have solar powered hot water at the moment, and in 5 years it's helped us save 1,898kWh in electricity... at our current energy rate with Bulb (12.443p) that's a…
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solar company gone bust.
The company that fitted my solar panels are no longer trading, I had them fitted 2 years ago by a company called class energy in Leeds. today I got a email from a company called Eco partners saying we are sorry to inform you that your solar fitter is no longer trading and as a authorised dealer in Enphase we would like to…
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Renewable heating grants
Hi does anyone know if there are any Grant's available for installing renewable forms of heating into a new self build house
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Electric vehicles miles per KWh
Headline for a Tesla model 3 is 4.1 miles per KWh but is 2.6 miles per KWh more honest? Someone doing average UK mileage 7,100 miles should budget closer to 2,540 KWh per year rather than 1,730 KWh, a significant difference Cost per mile is also therefore not really electricity price / 4.1 but is closer to electricity…
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Solar PV – Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
Solar PV Q&A's Index PTI The following is a list of general topics and questions that regularly get asked on the various MSE solar PV threads. All of the advice comes from enthusiastic PV owners. It should not therefore be considered technically perfect, nor 100% accurate. It should only be considered as shared advice and…
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edf battery offer
Hi does anyone know much about this what invertor do you get with the deal and what does the " With Grid Services " mean if my area had a power cut do I get to use it or will be used up by the grid for everyone within minutes. What about when I have charged it up and the its gone dull outside will I find that the grid has…
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Who benefits financially from exported electricity?
I live in a village, Not many houses here have solar panels so it's fairly likely that any unused electricity that leaves my house is used elsewhere in the village. But my export is not metered so nobody knows how much all the electricity suppliers to the village have saved because of me. If the electricity suppliers don't…
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Geeky question about solar yield data...
Hi all, We've had our 4.35 kWp solar PV installed since the end of March and I'm trying to work out how we are doing in terms of meeting our yield projections. Just a bit of fun really, I know the future weather is a bit of an unknown. :) I found some historic data from someone local with a similar install to mine and it…
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The advantages of using fossil fuels
https://youtu.be/Wtc_L0QloRg Fossil fuel energy has not taken A naturally safe environment and made it dangerous It's taken our naturally dangerous climate and made it unnaturally safe
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Help me troubleshoot why I have no hot water with an iBoost
Hi all As the title says, I have no hot water. Since our panels were put in with an iBoost in March we have had toasty hot water all day. I put the hot water to come on by timer, as recommended by the installer, for about an hour or so in the evening just to ensure the tank is nice and hot for the following morning when my…
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Solar Panel fitters in Milton Keynes
Hello ppl, Looking for some help and advice here. I have recently moved house within MK and would like to get Solar Panels fitted to my new house roof. In my previous property, following recommendations from the Solar gurus over here (Thanks once again) I had them fitted by TP Solar, but they are no longer trading. Having…
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Personal tradeable carbon credits?
So their was a recent suggestion that frequent flyers should pay an extra carbon tax which got me thinking. Why don't we work out a national carbon budget and then share it equally between everyone including children. Then out of our budgets we could 'buy' our carbon needs for utilities, transport and international travel.…
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4 years 1 month 3 weeks to build a nuclear reactor
Shows what can be done with just a little learning curve for nuclear https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangjiang_Nuclear_Power_Station Unit 1. 5 years 3 months Unit 2. 6 years 0 months Unit 3. 4 years 11 months Unit 4. 4 years 1 month & 3 weeks :T A different design was used for unit 5 & 6 so a new learning curve Unit 5. 4…
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extend warranty?
My sma inverter 5 year warranty ends in november, is it worth extending it or would I be better off setting aside money ? I dont usually believe in extended warranties .
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Wind being curtailed tonight
85% non fossil as we speak 3.5GW gas in the system yet wind being curtailed. I guess the grid needs those thermal plants to provide ancillary services like frequency control. Arguably 2.6 GW of French nuclear imports also being curtailed, interconntors like wind farms typically don't offer the same as thermal coal or gas…
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Are our attempts to reduce CO2 emissions making things worse?
For years, I keep hearing that we should be reducing use of gas, cars etc to help the environment. So, we get an influx of solar panel companies, electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles etc. Then I read the other day on BBC News about the "Dirty Secret" that is increasing warming. It says that Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) that…
