A petition to British energy retailers to breakdown the beneficiaries of domestic consumers' electricity standing charge payments (circa £200 every year) on their energy bills. Currently, these are mysterious unexplained opaque fixed charges that they must bear - https://www.jonathantracey.com/openletter A big chunk of them go to regional monopoly "network operators" companies which are insufficiently unaccountable.
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Tim Small
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mastodon 4.7.3Hygrothermal and energy performance of buildings. Embedded control and monitoring software. Computer Science, Physics. Jack of a few trades.
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Gas providing <4% (1.37 GW) of GB electricity grid generation just now. I haven't been keeping track, but this might be a new record low? The remaining gas is only there for grid stability reasons, and grid-scale battery storage is gradually eating up this market for gas generators too. Graph from the excellent https://grid.iamkate.com/ by @katemorley@hachyderm.io
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@KarlHeinzHasliP@climatejustice.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Or more prosaically my putting my washing machine or dishwasher onto a cleaning cycle. When I get around to it, my fridge freezer will turn its thermostat down a bit and then let the temperature coast back up when power is more fossily (typically during the "evening peak").
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk A little bit of today was spent developing a patch to the software which runs on my backup server, so that when no backups are in progress the server goes into a lower power state (suspend to RAM, but it could equally suspend to disk or even go into full standby).
This review is a work of art. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L3oO510dyVI