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- Sun May 19, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: One bed semi detached bungalow for sale Aberdeenshire.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 167
Re: One bed semi detached bungalow for sale Aberdeenshire.
3 bungalows came up for sale in my mothers road in the past month, all sold within a couple of weeks. Similar experience in my neck of the woods too, bungalows seem to be very sought after.
- Sat May 18, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: Renovations
- Topic: Insulating Timber Garage
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3000
Re: Insulating Timber Garage
Thats a similar job to my shed roof I did around 12 years ago. These pictures are recent ones when I re-powered the roof a few months ago, but you can see how I put the rails on. I first put on a bitumen banding flash along where the rails were going. Then I placed a decking plastic strip on top, th...
- Sat May 18, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
- Replies: 585
- Views: 103161
Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
A new record power peak here at Nowty Towers after my recent panel upgrades. (nowtyrecord) 10.5kW on the grid ties and 1.975kW on the DC coupling, so almost 12.5kW coming in. :twisted: The grid ties are practically at their theoretical max but there is about 1kW of headroom capacity left on the DC c...
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Grid-scale Sodium-Ion battery storage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 58
Re: Grid-scale Sodium-Ion battery storage
"The state utility says the 10 MWh sodium-ion battery energy storage station uses 210 Ah sodium-ion battery cells that charge to 90% in a mindblowing 12 minutes."
My mind is blown.
My mind is blown.
- Fri May 17, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: FiT deemed vs export …
- Replies: 9
- Views: 600
Re: FiT deemed vs export …
Finally, I got confirmation today that Octopus have now put me on their Outgoing Octopus tariff and I shall be earning 15p per kWh exported. Now to rejig my battery charging and discharging times to optimise things. What are the pros and cons of exporting at a high(ish) rate over a small period v a...
- Wed May 15, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Photovoltaic
- Topic: Dealing with excess solar:
- Replies: 25
- Views: 730
Re: Dealing with excess solar:
I deal with excess solar by, 1) Home battery becomes near full and the DC coupled charge controllers will simply throttle off and shut down. 2) First 4kW excess gets exported, any more excess gets diverted to pump power into storage heaters and/or hot water tank. 3) If I’m out, any further excess ge...
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: Renovations
- Topic: Insulating Timber Garage
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3000
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
- Replies: 585
- Views: 103161
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
- Replies: 585
- Views: 103161
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Wind Power
- Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
- Replies: 3619
- Views: 470852