I put in Solar in 2015 - just caught the tail end of the best FIT deals. It cost about £7k, and think it paid for itself in 6 years. Now I’m getting about £1500 a year bonus for the next 19 years
If you don’t have a battery definitely go for an iBoost - for about £500 it means you use every drop of excess energy for free water heating.
Recently got a quote to add a 10KW battery, but because my house is 3phase it’s gonna cost about £10k - worked out the ROI is about 15 years, so probably too steep.
I love how this article doesn’t tell me anything useful. How many applications compared to refusals, size, locations, type of land, environmental impact, what else the land was being used for or can be used for (houses for example)
The cap isn’t the biggest issue for me, it’s the standing charge. I don’t think we know yet what suppliers are going to set it at. Everyone can reduce energy usage, but it makes not difference if they double the standing charge
Not just what people consider low income houses. Many live within their budget even if higher and now have existing higher bills to maintain. The gov need to at least try and show everyone something much bigger than the covid packages are on the way ASAP.
Those are just examples. The price caps sets the limit that the average combined cost can’t go over. Energy companies can set any combination of standing charge and unit cost so long as it doesn’t go over the yearly average.
I already pay a standing charge over 50p
Well wait and see if energy companies put up standing charges by huge amounts again to compensate for lower energy usage
That’s just an example. We still need to see what energy suppliers eventually decide to set each rate to. It might be the case that they won’t increase standing charges in an attempt to not get on everyone’s bad side. Or they could increase them 1p, 5p, 10p whatever they decide so long as it doesn’t go over the average
If somebody could develop a low-cost product of this dynamo, it could be a very good addition to a gym: get fit and create energy. A single bicycle won’t do a lot though.
Nah, not really, sadly. The numbers don’t work out, humans are puny. I can put out 250-300W sustained for maybe 20 minutes, 1kW peak for like 1 second. Top tour de France domestiques can put out 500W continuous for a few hours. Chris Hoy could put out 700W sustained for a minute, almost enough to toast a piece of bread. Most people are ambling along on the cardio machines, and obviously the weights are doing nothing useful. A full gym of people is probably less than a boiling kettle of effort at once, and unless could harness this efficiently or change what they were doing to optimise energy output it’s not worth the bother. It would barely run the lights in the gym nevermind the aircon.
