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Don’t see many public chargers at 7p a kWh round my area? Great investment The comparison is with home charging! Those lucky (hardworking) enough to have a private driveway buy the fuel for their car at 7p/kWh while people who live in flats pay 39p. Hardly seems fair. Our neighbour is having a gull...

A far better record than one isolated “half-hour record” of solar generation, if applied/related to the monthly national (or personal) generation?

A single half-hour record does not really have any weight, regarding the percentage of anything. Spot readings do not apply to even a few hours, let alone the whole day. Good for new records, but minor record increments will always be welcome. Minor increases will eventually result in meaningful ren...

The only issue is the ongoing requirement of ‘spinning reserve’ for black-starts after widespread power failures. Nothing to do with how much or how little renewables are being generated. There have been umpteen periods over the last year, or so, when fossil burning has (theoretically) not been need...

I’m guessing they are including burning imported wood pellets/chips? I don’t count the subsidised burning of north american woodlands/forests as renewables.

But getting better all the time. More renewables means less fossils which has to be good.

Some of them use propane as the refrigerant? Doesn’t that mean it can be installed by non-gas fitters?

Mart,

I sent you a couple of PMs but have not had a response. Did they arrive?

The forum title reads “Renewable energy and Sustainability Discussions”, does it not?

Fossil fuels are NOT sustainable in any way, shape, or form in my book. End of discussion, I think.

AE-NMidlands wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:20 am Lucky you, living in Scotland and this as well!
Sadly, I can't see it ever applying in central England...

Why not?

There is more than one reason for curtailment. The costs of curtailment payments is well exceeded by the cheaper power from renewables than burning fossils. Two main reasons. 1) the grid was constructed backwards for off-shore wind turbine generation - “heavier duty’ conductors/contactors/pylons/tra...