Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

[Marcus]

BTW we do all our washes at 30 degrees and this includes toddlers clothes with any and all types of stain including poop, puke, blood snot etc etc

At moments like this I'm really glad I don't have kids.

All cold washes here as an when it's sunny for drying - although I do have to trick my old Indesit into doing a cold wash - it's coolest wash option is 40°

[Stinsy]

BTW we do all our washes at 30 degrees and this includes toddlers clothes with any and all types of stain including poop, puke, blood snot etc etc

At moments like this I'm really glad I don't have kids.

All cold washes here as an when it's sunny for drying - although I do have to trick my old Indesit into doing a cold wash - it's coolest wash option is 40°

Have you wired a switch into the heating element circuit?

[nowty]

Nowty Towers ironing station is now in operation.

Batteries at 40% with 18kWh of usable capacity remaining.

[Moxi]

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[nowty]

Irons appear to have changed since we last owned one ? That thing is huge ! Do the lights dim when the heating element cuts in ?

Moxi

No, but the battery inverter isn't quite fast enough to respond so inevitably I get some peak rate import leakage and even worse, some export leakage.

[Sunrisemike]

Ironing? What's wrong with drip dry..

[Marcus]

BTW we do all our washes at 30 degrees and this includes toddlers clothes with any and all types of stain including poop, puke, blood snot etc etc

At moments like this I'm really glad I don't have kids.

All cold washes here as an when it's sunny for drying - although I do have to trick my old Indesit into doing a cold wash - it's coolest wash option is 40°

Have you wired a switch into the heating element circuit?

No. It's an old fashioned knob that turns slowly round through the programmes: it would normally stop at the start until the water's up to temp, so I 'click' it on two clicks.

[nowty]

Luckily dinner halted SWMBO's ironing session so batteries are still around 30% with 10kWh left and 30mins to go until the house switches to cheap grid power and expecting home battery to be back to 90%+ by the end of the cheap rate period.

So no gas for another day.

[Tinbum]

My wife's iron isn't liked by my sunny islands. They seem to struggle to keep the frequency stable. Yesterday I used my mums very old iron, probably about 50 years old to melt the ends of my sons new cadets belt to stop it fraying. Its normally used for worktop edgings and such like now but still going strong.

[nowty]

January is usually the worst month of the year for energy import here at Nowty Towers as its normally the lowest temperature and 2nd worst month of Solar PV generation. So here is the low down on my gas elimination and total energy reduction progress. I first compared Jan 2022 with last years figures and then looked as far back as I have consistent data for which was 2013.

My domestic gas is now less than 1% of the 2013 value and my peak rate import of leccy is less than 1% due to my own energy storage.


Jan 2022 with 2 EVs.
Imported 34 kWh of gas and 2162 kWh of leccy, solar PV generation was 274 kWh.
Total kWh used was 2470 kWh.

Jan 2021 with 1 EV.
Imported 2395 kWh of gas and 934 kWh of leccy, solar PV generation was 232 kWh.
Total kWh used was 3329 kWh.

Jan 2013 with 0 EVs.
Imported 4118 kWh of gas and 458 kWh of leccy, solar PV generation was 108 kWh.
Total kWh used was 4684 kWh.

UK Grid must do better and match Nowty Towers performance with its gas consumption and intra day energy storage.