safrane
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Yep, far more reliant on Nuclear... just drive down the Loire to see how many NPS there are
Howevecr from April 2022 UK exports power which represents around 10% of its demand and mainly to France!I'd love to know what the 'Other ' in Other Energy.
What this data does tell us is that we need more wind, and solar, and Nuclear as our back up. Then we will be self sufficient, and not have to worry about imports, and wouldn't be at the mercy of European buying.
Not really rocket science is it?
“Other” is balancing sources like BESS as I understand it.
If you look at generation costs don’t forget to allow for transmission losses. A Kwh at a power station will be more like 0.55 to 0.6 at the wall socket.
Over the last 5 months we have had solar, we have exported twice that we have had to import. So if you like we have generated enough to cover our import, and that say of the neighbour next door too. With next to nothing in transmission loss too.
Obviously this won't be the case over the darker winter months but more micro generation at source of usage has to make a significant difference.
With projected figures our total generation for the year should easily cover our total usage, if not unfortunately at the required time.
So for those interested the new Volvo EX90 due for release in November, has a bidirectional battery charging system which will (in certain countries) enable you to use the remaining charge of the car to feed back into the home or grid. So in high tariff times you can use the car to provide power which (hopefully) you gained at a cheaper time.
You can then recharge the car over night at lower tariff and repeat the cycle again and again. This can be programmed into the cars app.
You will also be able to share your power with other volvo cars if they need a top up And your feeling generous and the other driver is cute.
Think the issue for me would the extra duty cycle on the battery.
However, will anyone actually own their car by then, rent it, so that's then irrelevant.
My mindset is still ni-cad, need to move on!EV batteries are always charging and discharging with regen and acceleration. Plus the load of a house is far lower than that over pulling onto a motorway. Using it like this won’t have a meaningful impact on the 5,000 plus cycles it will work for.
Has the price of crude shot up again? Last week paid £172.9 for diesel at my local Tesco, today it is £189.9
My mindset is still ni-cad, need to move on!
if they need a top up And your feeling generous and the other driver is cute.
It won't be long before somebody works out a way of reversing up to your car and nicking all the power if there's a way of doing it legallyLike the old days of siphoning petrol out!
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Ahh, the ‘you will own nothing’ in the future political plan coming to fruition. Who was it that owns Volvo?….I was told by Volvo Kendal that you will only be able to lease the EX90 and all new EV Volvos soon.
Ahh, the ‘you will own nothing’ in the future political plan coming to fruition. Who was it that owns Volvo?….
Has the price of crude shot up again? Last week paid £172.9 for diesel at my local Tesco, today it is £189.9