nowtta60
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I just found out the Blue price promise tariff I'm on with EDF is sourced from 100% nuclear. That's my rental property working away.
At home I'm with Good Energy which is sourced entirely from renewables.
That's a wet fish around the face for the next smarty pants who comes up with the comment "But where does the electricity come from?". Thinking the answer is coal and gas.
Still got to wait till February for delivery. I could be using candle power by then if there's an asteroid lands in the atlantic and floods the stations along the coast.
PS Not sure how many of you are into your energy stuff - I'm a total nerd, have you seen this....
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Tells you what the mix of power is on the UK grid at any given time. Plus you can down load spreasheets of historic data if you want to argue about suitability of offshore windpower in the uk on internet forums ;-)
Or if there's enough grid capacity over night to charge lots of EVs. There is... right now (at 1:40am) demand is 25GW. At 5pm it was just under 40GW (closer to 50 GW in winter). So there's 15GW of plant that was shut down over night, or being kept in spinning reserve.
How many cars can a spare 15GW of capacity charge?
Assuming the average dialy use is 40 miles @ 0.3kWh/mile each car needs 12 kWh per night. ie a 3kW standard charge for 4 hours. Or a quick 7kW charge for less than 2.
15GW for 7 hours is 105GWh available (during the low rate economoy 7 period). Thats enough to charge 8.75 million cars with 12kWh. Or nearly half the UK fleet. Adn there's still addtional plant avaiable if needed in the day. Can't say much for the future though. some more nukes, wind and solar coming. Maybe not as fast as the coal plants shut down. I think if need be they'll run them an extra couple of years.
The last job I had was working with one of the Big 6 suppliers. They are currently working on the protocols that will allow the grid to talk to "things" and allow them to switch on and off whn the rates are good. And potentially allow you to sell electric back to the grid in the peak afternoon / early spot from your EV - making a killing on the spot prices. Buy at night for £0.08 sell for £1.00! As long as your commute home doesn't need the full battery.
Not sure whether that's an option on the iDrive menu yet ;-).
At home I'm with Good Energy which is sourced entirely from renewables.
That's a wet fish around the face for the next smarty pants who comes up with the comment "But where does the electricity come from?". Thinking the answer is coal and gas.
Still got to wait till February for delivery. I could be using candle power by then if there's an asteroid lands in the atlantic and floods the stations along the coast.
PS Not sure how many of you are into your energy stuff - I'm a total nerd, have you seen this....
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Tells you what the mix of power is on the UK grid at any given time. Plus you can down load spreasheets of historic data if you want to argue about suitability of offshore windpower in the uk on internet forums ;-)
Or if there's enough grid capacity over night to charge lots of EVs. There is... right now (at 1:40am) demand is 25GW. At 5pm it was just under 40GW (closer to 50 GW in winter). So there's 15GW of plant that was shut down over night, or being kept in spinning reserve.
How many cars can a spare 15GW of capacity charge?
Assuming the average dialy use is 40 miles @ 0.3kWh/mile each car needs 12 kWh per night. ie a 3kW standard charge for 4 hours. Or a quick 7kW charge for less than 2.
15GW for 7 hours is 105GWh available (during the low rate economoy 7 period). Thats enough to charge 8.75 million cars with 12kWh. Or nearly half the UK fleet. Adn there's still addtional plant avaiable if needed in the day. Can't say much for the future though. some more nukes, wind and solar coming. Maybe not as fast as the coal plants shut down. I think if need be they'll run them an extra couple of years.
The last job I had was working with one of the Big 6 suppliers. They are currently working on the protocols that will allow the grid to talk to "things" and allow them to switch on and off whn the rates are good. And potentially allow you to sell electric back to the grid in the peak afternoon / early spot from your EV - making a killing on the spot prices. Buy at night for £0.08 sell for £1.00! As long as your commute home doesn't need the full battery.
Not sure whether that's an option on the iDrive menu yet ;-).