Fuel Cell Boilers - Thoughts?

Pile_o_stone

This thread has re-ignited my interest in this technology. I just need to ponder whether the issue about excess heat in summer is really a show stopper and whether the inclusion of a large Tesla style battery would allow us to go off the electrical grid completely (except perhaps for export of excess electricity).

michaels

Pile_o_stone said:

This thread has re-ignited my interest in this technology. I just need to ponder whether the issue about excess heat in summer is really a show stopper and whether the inclusion of a large Tesla style battery would allow us to go off the electrical grid completely (except perhaps for export of excess electricity).

We are big hot water users so no excess heat problem for us so I am hoping that the new govt green scheme might make this make a lot of sense come the autumn, especially as we currently get 26p/unit for exports under a v2g trial.  Hopefully an extra kw of export would not be enough for the DNO to kybosh the idea.

Pile_o_stone

michaels said:

Pile_o_stone said:

This thread has re-ignited my interest in this technology. I just need to ponder whether the issue about excess heat in summer is really a show stopper and whether the inclusion of a large Tesla style battery would allow us to go off the electrical grid completely (except perhaps for export of excess electricity).

We are big hot water users so no excess heat problem for us so I am hoping that the new govt green scheme might make this make a lot of sense come the autumn, especially as we currently get 26p/unit for exports under a v2g trial.  Hopefully an extra kw of export would not be enough for the DNO to kybosh the idea.

If you go ahead with it, please let us know. It'd be a fascinating thread.