Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

[Joeboy]

A comms update from Ripple,

'We are working on improving our notification system. We've had a few teething issues with the router which transmits the data and a few technical faults which have led to outages. It is a high priority of ours to improve our ability to capture these issues as soon as possible and provide information to members.'

[TCA]

"Enercon has secured a turbine supply agreement totalling almost 19MW with Ripple Energy for the Kirk Hill wind farm in Ayrshire, Scotland"

Full article:

https://renews.biz/78021/

[Joeboy]

"Enercon has secured a turbine supply agreement totalling almost 19MW with Ripple Energy for the Kirk Hill wind farm in Ayrshire, Scotland"

Full article:

https://renews.biz/78021/

That is a milestone indeed!

[Joeboy]

https://www.enercon.de/en/products/ep-2/e-92/

[nowty]

For WT1 owners, the Ripple April savings are in the Octopus account.

Virtual battery (recalibrated) now at SOC 74%.
At 100%+ it will get me through next winter.

[Joeboy]

The idea of Virtual Battery for Winter just gives it a sci-fi twist.

So my annual import is circa 10,000 kWh and my average cost per kWh, even if you include the standing charge's and the small amount of gas I use would come to 10p per kWh or less, or in other words £1000 per year or less.

So I visualise my Virtual Battery as a SOC % with a calibration of £1000 credit being a SOC of 100%. In reality I would never need the battery at 100% because the WT's are generating nicely in the winter but it would guarantee me a years worth of power, even if it was out of action for a long time.

So my current Octopus dashboard shows,


But I visualise it as,


And that SOC will rise over the summer, maybe to around 50% and even have a 20% increment when we get the enforced energy £200 loan in October. So will maybe peak this year at around 70% SOC as I move into the discharge phase.

The token £1 a month DD is in case of any virtual battery self discharge.

Finally seeing this, , excellent !
I am currently -5% soc in the VB and a mighty tenner a month dd.

[Joeboy]

That's my deposit in for Project 3, My dashboard is starting to look crowded!

We have solar panels, we have solar farm shares, this will be a nice 'other solar segment' investment if they do go solar farm.

[AE-NMidlands]

Anyone hear the comment on R4 this morning that if there is to be a windfall tax on the fossil fuel [extracting] companies then it should be applied to renewables too? Could give us a back-dated liability...
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[Joeboy]

Anyone hear the comment on R4 this morning that if there is to be a windfall tax on the fossil fuel [extracting] companies then it should be applied to renewables too? Could give us a back-dated liability...
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I'll be honest. The thought of the windfall tax on energy companies makes me want to throw up on many levels. Just one more aspect of panhandling Britain that i detest.

At one point a few years back i had taken a 73% hit on shares and a 100% hit on dividends, didn't complain, just got on with it. Did not hear a single voice offering to help the energy companies, now the tide has turned and the profits are rising that somehow gives scumbag Britain an in to those profits? 'F**k off to Oxfam and buy a jumper if you're cold and make sure the kids read 'The three little pigs', he generalised...'

Sorry, this one hits a nerve in me, obviously i hide it well.

I feel the same on an RE windfall tax.

[AE-NMidlands]

Anyone hear the comment on R4 this morning that if there is to be a windfall tax on the fossil fuel [extracting] companies then it should be applied to renewables too? Could give us a back-dated liability...
A

I'll be honest. The thought of the windfall tax on energy companies makes me want to throw up on many levels. Just one more aspect of panhandling Britain that i detest.

At one point a few years back i had taken a 73% hit on shares and a 100% hit on dividends, didn't complain, just got on with it. Did not hear a single voice offering to help the energy companies, now the tide has turned and the profits are rising that somehow gives scumbag Britain an in to those profits? 'F**k off to Oxfam and buy a jumper if you're cold he generalised...'

Sorry, this one hits a nerve in me, obviously i hide it well.

I feel the same on an RE windfall tax.

Actually they said that the windfall tax was justified because the oil companies did get bailouts a few years ago...