UK electricity grid dashboard

[biffvernon]

Just under 4kW.

[emordnilap]

I agree; fossil fuel is basically too cheap to facilitate behaviour-change at the moment.

Actually E, I think I stick to my original comment.

Oh! Do you disagree that all fossil fuel is too cheap?

[Tarrel]

Actually E, I think I stick to my original comment.

Oh! Do you disagree that all fossil fuel is too cheap?

No, not at all. I was merely suggesting that all electricity is too cheap, irrespective of whether it's produced from fossil fuels or not. I suppose myoint is that ENERGY, at the point of use, is too cheap, so it inhibits us from weaning ourselves off excessive energy use. We need to make the excessive use of energy more painful, irrespective of its source. Once we reduce our demand, we have more options about where we can viably source it from.

[RenewableCandy]

Has anyone else noticed that the shape of the daily "wave" of Demand has changed recently? It used to, and generally has, one peak in the early evening. Now it seems to be at that peak level all afternoon and right through til the end of the evening.

[PS_RalphW]

lighter evenings and more efficient lighting, and less electirc home cooking in the evening?

How much energy does heating through a microwave supper take?

[RenewableCandy]

Lighter evenings might do it (by "recently" I meant "up til last week"!) but that does mean the country burns a hechuvalot of lecky switching lights on! (i.e. the initial surge). Do we really need that much light?

[adam2]

Lighter evenings might do it (by "recently" I meant "up til last week"!) but that does mean the country burns a hechuvalot of lecky switching lights on! (i.e. the initial surge). Do we really need that much light?

No significant extra electricity is used by turning on lighting.
A flourescent lamp uses about twice the nominal power for a second or so when first turned on, other discharge lamps actually use less energy whilst warming up.
Modern lighting with switched mode ballasts or power supplies may use up to 10 times the normal current whilst starting, but only for a tiny fraction of a second, this is a matter of some concern when sizing fuses etc, but is of no consequence as regards overall energy use.

[ujoni08]

Here's an example of how to really waste precious resources:

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blo ... ge-vietnam

[Tarrel]

For real time PV output you're better to just multiply the known installed capacity and location by real time weather information.

The energy saving trust's solar energy calculator returns an annual output of 750kWh per 1kW of installation for our postcode in Northern Scotland. It gives 860kWh per 1kW installed for our previous location in Hampshire. This might give an average indication of PV generation if the installed capacity was known.

[emordnilap]

From where I sit at my Mac, I have windows, which provide me with real-time weather information. So far, they have proved 100% accurate.

[Tarrel]

From where I sit at my Mac, I have windows, which provide me with real-time weather information. So far, they have proved 100% accurate.

So, given the sunglasses, it's sunny there then?

[ujoni08]

...From where I sit at my Mac, I have windows

So, do you have a Mac or Windows?

[emordnilap]

...From where I sit at my Mac, I have windows

So, do you have a Mac or Windows?

As I said, I have a Mac. I also have windows.

[ujoni08]

Just pulling your leg. (I use Linux Ubuntu, by the way. )

[emordnilap]

Just pulling your leg. (I use Linux Ubuntu, by the way. )

I presume you too have windows?