BG free weekend power

50Twuncle

I was wondering whether BG would allow me to charge for free, on Saturdays, a massive bank of batteries to power my house for the rest of the week ?

Rubidium

50Twuncle wrote: »

I was wondering whether BG would allow me to charge for free, on Saturdays, a massive bank of batteries to power my house for the rest of the week ?

How many kWh do you use per week?

How many batteries would you need to store this amount of energy?

How much space would this hypothetical bank of batteries require?

How much would it cost to implement this?

How much charge could you put into the battery bank in eight hours?

The BG free weekend power tariff is expensive for the other 160 hours each week

Forget it, this is simply a pathetic attempt to get the gullible to take smart meters!

teddysmum

Rubidium wrote: »

How many kWh do you use per week?

How many batteries would you need to store this amount of energy?

How much space would this hypothetical bank of batteries require?

How much would it cost to implement this?

How much charge could you put into the battery bank in eight hours?

The BG free weekend power tariff is expensive for the other 160 hours each week

Forget it, this is simply a pathetic attempt to get the gullible to take smart meters!

Also, consider the effort needed to move very heavy batteries about.

cifpower

And the cost of buying the batteries

System

Reasonable usage

We may contact you if we think you’re using an unreasonably large amount of electricity on your free day, for example, if you start doing washing for the whole street, or set up a restaurant in your living room. If we think you are using an excessive amount, we may take you off the tariff and move you to our cheapest variable price tariff.

Source: BG's Terms and Conditions

50Twuncle

Hengus wrote: »

Reasonable usage

We may contact you if we think you’re using an unreasonably large amount of electricity on your free day, for example, if you start doing washing for the whole street, or set up a restaurant in your living room. If we think you are using an excessive amount, we may take you off the tariff and move you to our cheapest variable price tariff.

Source: BG's Terms and Conditions

So how much are BG going to allow you to use ?
10 units .? 20 ...?
they are not going to make a loss are they ?

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

50Twuncle wrote: »

So how much are BG going to allow you to use ?
10 units .? 20 ...?
they are not going to make a loss are they ?

Of course they're not going to make a loss - they're a business first and foremost.

MikeWhite

I think I read that it cannot exceed 11% of your metered weekly usage....So that's a no.

50Twuncle

MikeWhite wrote: »

I think I read that it cannot exceed 11% of your metered weekly usage....So that's a no.

So, virtually a standard days allowance ?
hardly worth the paper it's written on ?

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

https://www.britishgas.co.uk/aem6/content/dam/britishgas/documents/tariffs/terms/HomeEnergy-FreeTime-Sat-Mar-2018.pdf


They aren't going to give a discrete amount, (eg 500 KWh) for obvious reasons. They will determine on the evidence before them what is unreasonable.

50Twuncle

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays wrote: »

https://www.britishgas.co.uk/aem6/content/dam/britishgas/documents/tariffs/terms/HomeEnergy-FreeTime-Sat-Mar-2018.pdf


They aren't going to give a discrete amount, (eg 500 KWh) for obvious reasons. They will determine on the evidence before them what is unreasonable.

And how much more expensive is this tariff than the best out there ?