Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

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Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

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AE-NMidlands wrote: Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:32 pm
ecogeorge wrote: Mon Apr 25, 2022 8:41 pm I have a small stake in Harlaw Hydro , they have an energy meter here........
https://www.harlawhydro.org.uk/power-me ... mb5JejMLq8
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That is a nice informative web page, thanks. Let's hope Ripple manage something like it.
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Did you show them (Ripple) or point them towards the place they could grow from? Kudos if you did. 👏

No worries if not, I am a huge fan of smaller companies who have the agility to respond maybe not quite on the turning of the tide,yet close enough so we can feel the ebb & flow. Genuinely feel that anyone who has id'd an improvement should communicate it directly to Ripple (and here as a back up) for the rest of us. 8-)

Nobody will if you don't, there's the crux... Hat's off to ye if u do. Its a nice concise detail rich page.
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Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

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EcoG & AE, looks like Ripple are watching and listening. I quite like the new monthly data 'Top Trump' card. :D
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Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

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nowty wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 8:41 pm That's 19 now on my (not so) secret list for WT2. ;)
My brother-in-law (sister's other half) also signed up to 1500W with my referral 8-) (quite surprised as he's usually cautious about such things!) - going to see if any 'like-minded' friends take an interest!
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Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

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Even more savings from WT1, it seems the actual rebate is now actually 9.63p per kWh.

Several people queried the data on their dashboard from the March savings which seemed to exceed the expected 9.5p per kWh. They expected it was just a rounding error but got this back from ripple. 8-)

Hi all just to clarify the 9.63p savings. We estimated the embedded benefits based on prior year calculations to get to our 9.5p calculation. These have now been updated and are slightly higher. So the savings figure moving forward will be 9.63p. Sorry if this hasn’t been mentioned before…but hopefully some good news!

EDIT - I think the rebate rounds up closer to 9.64p / kWh as they now quote that on the ripple website. :geek:
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Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

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And they had to stop the turbine a few times a couple of days ago whilst they checked the blades, I guess its part of the 500 hr service.

Yes, those are real people.
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And I thought abseiling down a small traditional windmill was hairy :D (www.northfieldwindmill.org.uk) - I hope to get a small generator in there one day (it's now turned into a lifetime project rather than the 5-10years I anticipated when we took over custodianship in 2012 :o )
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Umski wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:24 am And I thought abseiling down a small traditional windmill was hairy :D (www.northfieldwindmill.org.uk) - I hope to get a small generator in there one day (it's now turned into a lifetime project rather than the 5-10years I anticipated when we took over custodianship in 2012 :o )
link doesn't work for me... (or going via SPAB)
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Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

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Me neither.
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Ooch, thanks for spotting that :oops: Webserver had disconnected for some reason and my uptime monitor hadn't alerted me - should be working now albeit the content is a bit dated - there are more photos on the FB page...(sorry for the hijack)
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You've a bit of a task there!
Keep us updated as work progresses.
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