No more electric bills.....would you buy one?

albyota

OK…..Hypothetically?……5 years from now……

For £4,500? You can now buy your own…. lets call it…errr…a ‘GENERPOWERPACK4’, what is it?

It generates electricity ……But it does not use any fuel……well a tiny bit…….and is almost silent…..It’s the size of a domestic washing machine……it provides a constant 4kW of power at 230 volts (pure sine wave) 50Hz. It is hard wired into your consumer unit / fuse box.

Or for the smaller (size of a wall mounted boiler) 2.8kW ‘GENERPOWERPACK3’ hard wired in to a ring main converted socket, spur

You do not require a connection to the grid as the unit is powered by………….sorry I can’t reveal how it works…..at the moment……!

There is no government subsidy……no FIT’s……no standing charge, just buy…..connect…. and start supplying your own electricity.

All you have to do is, only use / switch on combinations of appliances up to the 3.8kW load limiter, you cannot exceed the 4 kW max at any time, i.e. only run heavier electrical loads like the washing machine at night, do not run more than an accumulative load, for example, kettle 2.2kW, (TV’s, SKY, DVD, PC’s) 600W + 20 x 8W LED lamps 160W + fridge 160W + freezer 300W, central heating controls and circulating pump 150W, (A wireless monitor shows real time total wattage and an alarm sounds when getting close to max, (e.g. 3.8kW).

Interview with the inventor….

“We knew this would be a success story but this is incredible”…………”And from our latest records we have sold over 500,000 units since we started in 2012, and now with order books filled for the next 5 years with projected sales for next year of 2.4 million units, 3.9M units in year 3, 5.8M unit’s in year 4 and 8 Million units in year 5…we now have 6 plants with 10 units rolling off the production line every minute, 28,000 units a day, we are now exporting to six countries”

NEWS

MARCH 3rd 2018

Thousands of these powerboxes are being bought by homeowners, housing associations, small to medium businesses, shops, estate agents, schools, medical centres, dentist practices, Vets, garden centres etc…After EDF pulled out of the UK market some years ago, The last of the ‘big two’ energy suppliers, ‘BEoN power utilities’ is going into administration with fears that as more of these ‘GENERPOWERPACK’ units are being bought we just can’t compete………one power station stated that “we are seeing continued reduction in grid use, four years ago we were generating xxxxxxGW….this year we are generating just xxGW, people just got smart and this caught us out….. over the last four years we have made 240,000 people redundant and what did they do with their severance pay……went out and bought one of these power pack things……We have appealed to the Prime Minister Sir Alan Sugar,…. he told us to shut up......stop moaning…..and go home.
Sir Alan has just bought another 16 of the large commercial 35kW units.

Wake up AL…..stop dreaming!

OK, remember, that was all hypothetical, but if…just if…. such a thing was available (it might be soon), how many of you would consider purchasing one?
Do you see any problems, pitfalls…..?
Would it get stopped by the government for some reason?

All details and figures above are fictional……..please don’t start getting abusive, this is just for fun.

Andy_WSM

Absolutely I would! I think many would. I had 4KW of solar fitted last year and the recent cold but sunny days have proven to be a huge bonus, being able to run the heat pump for free.

withabix

What was wrong with the original thread with the same cut & pasted post?

albyota

withabix wrote: »

What was wrong with the original thread with the same cut & pasted post?

Thanks, it wasn't getting much interest over there, I really want to get some feedback as to what the energy companies / government / HMRC would do if this actually could happen.

Plus to provoke some interesting alternative ideas i.e. fuel cells, PMG etc.

if nothing else I own the rights for a good film :cool:

albyota

Andy_WSM wrote: »

Absolutely I would! I think many would. I had 4KW of solar fitted last year and the recent cold but sunny days have proven to be a huge bonus, being able to run the heat pump for free.

Yep, same as me, only 3kWp though & 8.5kW Ecodan only pulling 1.2kW constant with minus 3.8C here.

Andy_WSM

albyota wrote: »

Yep, same as me, only 3kWp though & 8.5kW Ecodan only pulling 1.2kW constant with minus 3.8C here.

Same here then, we never got above or even close to freezing yesterday. The heat pump only costs approx £3 a day to run 24/7 and this has got even cheaper with the onset of the cold sunny days as I never used any grid power for about a 6 hour period the last few days. Best household investment ever. A 24/7 supply, even though limited, would definitely be a blessing - and would only need a minor lifestyle change to "load balance" and manage your consumption. No different to living in rural France where a 16A supply is the norm - and no gas either.

albyota

As almost every appliance in a house can now be 'low' current draw.....even the kettle, I think it is quite feasible to run at a 4Kw max, typical house wiring (ring main) make it difficult to auto control, but with any (rewires) new houses to be built, they should have separate spurs / radial circuits from a controllable / load,balancing consumer unit supplied by the 'Generpowerpack'