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Harlequin said:
Nuclear, biomass and wind are base load, CCGT is on demand. Many times wind has to constrain down as the output is greater than grid need.
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Agree - we need a blend of technology but try and harness as much wind/solar/tidal over the rest. Only way to do this is encourage adoption and incentivise. As soon as global warming and climate agreements were signed this should have been in motion. When closing the coal facilities down years ago this was beyond common sense.
 
Macky said:
Modern small scale nuclear fission generation is around the corner and should be generating within ten years - Rolls Royce SMR. This will be a crucial technology to further phase out fossil fuels until we bridge the gap to commercially viable fusion. One could see the steep rise in energy prices as the kick we needed to accelerate and regain public perception of nuclear.

Wind, solar, hydro and large battery plants will also play a crucial part to balance the grid.
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Isn't it always around the corner?
It feels closer. Much closer than 5 years ago. But still, I'll believe it when I see it on that one.

Can't even imagine what it would mean. It would shake up the world like nothing I've seen in my lifetime.
 
Well I decided end of last month to start trying to make a concious effort to reduce my usage, I live on my own and the usage was a bit high for my liking (averaging 10.3kwh per day)

I set about removing all my old lightbulbs in the house and replacing for (bright) energy savers and making effort to reduce my washing loads and use only fast wash at 30c and also unplugged my landline and a few other bits and pieces, I have averaged 8.3kwh over the last 3 days so a reduction so far on average of 2kwh, I am on a fixed price cap so that works out to roughly £12 saving per month, not a lot at the moment but it adds up, I'm happy I'm getting into this mindset where as before I didn't care as will make the difference when I come off cap.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Well I decided end of last month to start trying to make a concious effort to reduce my usage, I live on my own and the usage was a bit high for my liking (averaging 10.3kwh per day)

I set about removing all my old lightbulbs in the house and replacing for (bright) energy savers and making effort to reduce my washing loads and use only fast wash at 30c and also unplugged my landline and a few other bits and pieces, I have averaged 8.3kwh over the last 3 days so a reduction so far on average of 2kwh, I am on a fixed price cap so that works out to roughly £12 saving per month, not a lot at the moment but it adds up, I'm happy I'm getting into this mindset where as before I didn't care as will make the difference when I come off cap.
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Try the eco mode on your washing machine, it's a lot slower but might save a bit more.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Well I decided end of last month to start trying to make a concious effort to reduce my usage, I live on my own and the usage was a bit high for my liking (averaging 10.3kwh per day)

I set about removing all my old lightbulbs in the house and replacing for (bright) energy savers and making effort to reduce my washing loads and use only fast wash at 30c and also unplugged my landline and a few other bits and pieces, I have averaged 8.3kwh over the last 3 days so a reduction so far on average of 2kwh, I am on a fixed price cap so that works out to roughly £12 saving per month, not a lot at the moment but it adds up, I'm happy I'm getting into this mindset where as before I didn't care as will make the difference when I come off cap.
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That good. We average 4kWh a day which considering only home from 7pm till 6am is about as low as can go as it basically everything off in day and a few hours for two TV's on. Nothing else to switch off. That is a day without any washing machine or cooker use. If washing machine is run and dinner cooker night then 6kWh is what go up too then.
 
Curlyriff said:
That good. We average 4kWh a day which considering only home from 7pm till 6am is about as low as can go as it basically everything off in day and a few hours for two TV's on. Nothing else to switch off. That is a day without any washing machine or cooker use. If washing machine is run and dinner cooker night then 6kWh is what go up too then.
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Yea, I'm going to struggle to see how I can save *much* more without sacrificing quality of living a little bit but I think I can get it down a bit more, cooking a batch of dinners one night for example and not using the hob every night will make a further saving.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Yea, I'm going to struggle to see how I can save *much* more without sacrificing quality of living a little bit but I think I can get it down a bit more, cooking a batch of dinners one night for example and not using the hob every night will make a further saving.
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Yeah we already doing those. Literally only thing on is Fridge when not in. Everything else now is switched off at wall for whole day and the TV's just switched on from like 8pm to 11pm latest. Cook 3 times week out 7. Weekend is different cause housemate has his boys so we jump to about 12kWh those days but one boy has TV on about half day and other has his gaming PC which he only gets to use once a week so suck it up for now.

When I work from home 1 day a week we average about 8kWh day cause PC pulling about 200watt an hour over 8 hour to get 1.6kWh usage but that cheaper than my £15 a day fuel cost in travel.
 
How much energy could you generate if you hooked up a spin bike/turbo trainer to a battery?

Maybe I could power my lights in the evening whilst getting exercise. Or maybe I could invite Chris Hoy/Jason Kenny round and power my TV for the week :D
 
Not sure how much more i can do, I do this before this whole price hike already

Already on LED light bulbs.
Washing machine at 30c fast eco cycle
Heating off permanently until November/December
Hot water is on timer, 2hrs morning and 2hrs night (with hot water tank)
Only boil water that i need
I often sit in the dark with only the TV as the light in the room
The hallway and Kitchen light are on a motion sensor which auto-off so no chance of them staying on.

Short of grinding my coffee beans by hand, I am not sure how much I can save!
 
Raymond Lin said:
Not sure how much more i can do, I do this before this whole price hike already

Already on LED light bulbs.
Washing machine at 30c fast eco cycle
Heating off permanently until November/December
Hot water is on timer, 2hrs morning and 2hrs night (with hot water tank)
Only boil water that i need
I often sit in the dark with only the TV as the light in the room
The hallway and Kitchen light are on a motion sensor which auto-off so no chance of them staying on.

Short of grinding my coffee beans by hand, I am not sure how much I can save!
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What's your daily KWH usage?
 
Raymond Lin said:
No idea, I don't know where i put it.
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I don't like the idea of paying for something which I can't monitor, glad I have my smart meter however it is a V1 without the in home display, but I get KWH readings daily from the meter by logging into the web portal, they're delivering me an in home display soon and upgrading the software on my meter so I can monitor it constantly.
 
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