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I had a thought to get a white meter and charge a bunch of car batteries overnight, then run the house off an inverter during the day as we only use about 4kwh a day. But with the cost of a big inverter needed for peak cooking loading it isn't yet worth it.
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surely that should read, some supplier is getting paid handsomely for what the farmer has generated
Ditto, pisspoor signal, smart meter a waste of time. If the useless Welsh Gov did something instead of talking about it we might get somewhere, but nothing is likely to change in a hurry.
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We are looking at it for our workshop
Sorry, but it doesn't work like that. Energy goes in and out of the grid, like a pool. So the supplier to the farmer will see a proportion of it, at best. I shan't go into the tomatoes analogy thing again, but what goes in comes out. My solar export being part of what goes in, but I don't get paid by my supplier for it (yet).
Quite a lot are doing this apparently. Haven't seen the sums to quantify the economics of it though - cost of genny, plus maint, depreciation, diesel etc Vs grid costs - which could go down as well as up?
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I think it does work like that.
If you are grid tied and not getting fit or seg then the excess electricity you generate goes into the grid. Somebody uses electricity in their house and the meter records the usage and they have to pay their supplier for it
your (in this case the farmer) free generation has made a contracted supplier a profit
even if you get seg it is still peanuts in comparison to what the electricity suppliers charge consumers
No, the suppliers, as a whole profit from it, but not just specifically the customers supplier. Hence the "pool" statement.
And yes, it's criminal that the suppliers are paying peanuts for clean certificated generation, but charging 10 times that for what they sell.
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Agreed the costs would be interesting. A bit like the article previously - it’s not just the “fuel” cost that counts.
That said, running a generator certainly makes a statement and maybe there’s value in that.
Someone said that a charging cable has 50-75 dollars of copper in it.
Supposedly the thefts are a big deal in Scotland.
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Supposedly the thefts are a big deal in Scotland.
New Tesla Supercharger Station Vandalized: Every Cable Cut, Stolen
Tesla Supercharger stations, along with other public charging stations, are prone to attacks since they're typically unattended, along with being open 24 hours.
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Some of the happy government folks are talking about a mileage road tax on electrics.
38 cents per mile was their preliminary estimate.
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We run 3 phase gen the new one 100kva is good on fuel auto start can hardly hear it running the old one was noisy and drank like a parched camel, cost aprox 12k there is no 3 phase supply to us, cost if we dig cable trench 32k then cost of lecy per year will take a long time to get to a loss situation with us
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Pay per mile is coming then
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I think it’s inevitable. And exactly why I never advise anyone to buy an EV based on running costs.
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For welding?? No, of course they won't. Why on earth would they?
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