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- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: FiT 24/25
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1810
Re: FiT 24/25
It's a gamble here, we installed ours in 2011 so we have 14 years left of FIT BUT we are both 73 years old. I don't which will hit us first, I hope it's the FIT end!!
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: FiT 24/25
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1810
Re: FiT 24/25
+ another one here, and the deemed export is also a nice bit on top.Lincs Robert wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:34 am
+1 on that sentiment from me
I was one of the lucky ones who got my installation in the nick of time. Probably looking at a pound per kWh by the time we get to the end of the 25 years.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: Wind Power
- Topic: Offshore floaters require "heavy maintenance"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1528
Re: Offshore floaters require "heavy maintenance"
The upside is that the work can be done at a dockside in a much better/safer environment than if they were planted into the seabed. It reads that it's the turbines not the floatation bit that's knackered so that does not bode well for the planted ones.
I was beaten to it!!
I was beaten to it!!
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: New approach for some more charging points
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2247
Re: New approach for some more charging points
Having listened to a BT man on R4 Wed midday-ish I'm even more convinced it's PR over reality. They are going to use the power that's already in the cabinets, currently powering broadband amplifiers, to charge numerous vehicles. Serious green-washing is going on, they will HAVE to install a much lar...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: New approach for some more charging points
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2247
Re: New approach for some more charging points
I reckon 80/100A single phase supply inside box looped into a mains cable nearby A standard old style cabinet had only telephone wires in it, NO mains. 50v dc within the phone wires normally and slightly higher AC when the phone was being rung, a bit of a surprise is you were working on it at the t...
Re: Mr Bates
Our view is the a very large section of the UK public are living in a cosy bubble, don't listen to a voice radio station, get their news via social media etc. May the Lord help this country. We're glad to be 73 and not 23 at present, with luck we won't see the results.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:11 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: New approach for some more charging points
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2247
Re: New approach for some more charging points
I shall believe this when I can see it in operation, I'm still sure it's B.S. having spent many unhappy hours with my head in the cabinets.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: New approach for some more charging points
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2247
Re: New approach for some more charging points
They can't reuse the BT ducting as too tight bends for heavy armoured leccy cable and wrong colour for safety purposes. They'll still need to get a large power supply to the cabinet underground as well. I repeat my view that it's BS.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: New approach for some more charging points
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2247
Re: New approach for some more charging points
They are effectively being used as an electrical junction box to provide power to the charge point installed nearby, the headline is a little misleading. Having had a reread of the article it's cobblers. In the old redundant cabinets the only power in there is 50v DC in the telephone cables. Any po...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: New approach for some more charging points
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2247
Re: New approach for some more charging points
They are effectively being used as an electrical junction box to provide power to the charge point installed nearby, the headline is a little misleading. The existing cabinets would need to be removed to install the ducting for the heavier leccy cables so why not put a new one in a more appropriate...