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Interesting that hydro is generating 1% and pumped hydro is mopping up the same amount...
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Well, I got a useful boost, but I'm still kicking myself. At least the sun has come out for a bit just now, so some of my export is coming directly off the roof and saving a bit of battery.
Hope your skies cheer up, I guess the trouble is that May and June have spoiled us!
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Blast! I forgot about it... but I shall get half some of the benefit...
It would have been useful too, as it's grey here and a top-up before 4pm will be needed.

dlw wrote: ↑Fri Jul 04, 2025 5:03 pm I've been looking at the ecoflow 800w with all the AI stuff but the cloud system had an outage recently and messed up a lot of people's systems.

Yes, absolutely. For any extension of my system I want local control via a home hub (or whatever) powered off a UPS.

Ooops! I put it on viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1498&p=61466#p61466
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Has anyone got the results from the last free session. I was plugged in with a schedule but exported and didn’t charge the car. Today’s email says results from the 1st session are in but I have nothing on the dashboard. Not on my Octopus account yet, but the savings session calculator (https://savi...

email just in: There’s plenty of green power in the wires tomorrow, and you know what that means… Free Electricity Session 2-3pm, Saturday 5th July! Get ready to fill your boots Plan to shift any electricified activity into that hour, be it hoovering, laundry or realistically, sitting in front of a ...

Rather annoyingly, the convention for large scale supply side storage has always been to report the power. Often, but not always, we get the energy too, although IMO, I think we are now seeing the energy in more/most reports (where available) these days. For this scheme, there are many news article...

dan_b wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 5:45 pm Another new solar farm energised, this time in Devon.

https://renews.biz/101586/rwe-powers-up ... olar-farm/

did they mean a 35MW with a 35MWh battery? That's poor - from a specialist publication anyway!

“These 80 projects are a long-term insurance policy against threats to Britain’s energy security and the instability of prices. By bringing online dozens of homegrown, renewable generation sites and modernising our energy system to the one we will need in the future we can boost growth and give our...