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Couple of posts on Twitter saying that EDF is going to start fuel loading today (2nd May). Flamanville unit 3 should be being fuelled up at the moment and hot commission mid 2024, original price 3.1 billion, current estimated out turn costs 13.5 to 19.4 billion depending on what you read and where, ...

EDF submits its proposals for 4x EPR1200s for the Czech power sector. These would be "Version 2s" of the EPR design being built at HPC - lower output but apparently much simpler and cheaper to build. https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated-sections/journalists/all-press-releases/edf-...

And there's this one too - Smart Wires

https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/05/ ... -new-tool/

Actually did a project with UK Power Networks a few years ago trialling their kit on one of their connections

Mercedes tests 1MW charging for its electric truck.
The charger pushed 1,242 amps at 806v to deliver 1,001.1 kW at 22% state-of-charge (SOC).

Don't stick your fingers in that one!


https://insideevs.com/news/718026/merce ... ging-test/

Toyota now discounting the Mirai by 60% in an attempt to move them off their dealership forecourts.

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/t ... emand-dies#

Wonder how many billions Toyota has lost backing the fuel cell horse?

What's going on?
I know Musk is a strange character, and of course we don't have any real information, but why would he do this?

https://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-co ... rger-team/

I think it's probably a result of undue influence of the petrochemical industry in Scotland - the only industry that would benefit from H2 heating is the fossil fuel extractors...

April 2024 - just pipped 2023's stats

11kWp Office Array.

Total generation - 1.101MWh (1.077MWh last year)
Self-consumption - 0.79MWh (72%)
Export - 0.31MWh (28%)

Overall electricity consumption 3.09MWh
Imported 2.29MWh (74%)

https://www.current-news.co.uk/octopus- ... -supplier/

Octopus now has 22% of the electricity market, surpassing British Gas (20.3%), E.ON (16.8%), OVO (13%) and EDF (10.9%).

Thought this might amuse. Yesterday - last day of April, properly sunny for pretty much the first time this year. Office solar agreed. But also a very busy day in the studio - full day of filming, and we had 2x EVs on charge during working hours, and looks like we had a public EV charge session star...