Not always so remote. There is an EE side up the M40 between Oxford and Brum that has/had a large propane pig in the compound. It looked as if they couldn't even get a mains feed to it.
(aside: Due to a previous career I tend to observe cell sites even when I really shouldn't).
I'm from Germany and i would love to have your prices. One KWh here is about 0.40 US$.
The prices doubled since the year 2000. This is mostly due to our politics, they wanted to push eco power, but had no clue how to do, so the costs exploded over the years due to their failures. If international prices rise, our also rise. If fhey fall, they still climb for us 😉.
The prices doubled since the year 2000. This is mostly due to our politics, they wanted to push eco power, but had no clue how to do, so the costs exploded over the years due to their failures. If international prices rise, our also rise. If fhey fall, they still climb for us 😉.
Here in Massachusetts I'm paying about $0.24/kWh. This includes everything. It may be lower in some towns that have formed a power coop, but we do not have that option. I average about 600kWh/month. I just (as in last week) installed solar panels on my roof, so my yearly bill should soon be close to zero. The state and federal subsidies (mostly via tax credits) were too good to pass up and I have a south-east facing roof looking out over a lake so I'm a very good solar candidate.
LOL. Sorry 'bout that, but from about 1 km away looking into the mouth of the beast, it sure looked like a giant jet turbine. Thanks for the link!
The usual policy is to raise the prices for conventional power to make room for subsidizing the eco power. It always ends up with some more subsidized fat cats and no progress in eco power efficiency/cost.
Here on Long Island, NY our bill is broken down into:
Delivery & System charges,
Power Supply charges
Taxes
All totaled I'm at $0.219 per/KWH
We've just been notified that rates are going up and will change at various times of the day. The color coded rate chart looks like a Penn Station train schedule! 😱
Delivery & System charges,
Power Supply charges
Taxes
All totaled I'm at $0.219 per/KWH
We've just been notified that rates are going up and will change at various times of the day. The color coded rate chart looks like a Penn Station train schedule! 😱
I just got my latest power bill.
$187.56 USD for 1497KW-H of energy.
Works out to 0.10565 per KW-Hr.
$187.56 USD for 1497KW-H of energy.
Works out to 0.10565 per KW-Hr.
> Here on Long Island, ... All totaled I'm at $0.219 per/KWH ...rates are going up and will change at various times of the day.
Going well back in the last century, LILCO (Long Island Lighting) was scandalously over-priced and getting worse. We in NJ were glad we were not in LILCO. 22 cents is less than I would have guessed after decades of 'progress'.
"LILCO was long notorious for its high rates." LILCO was folded in 1998. Ironically some operations were handed over to New Jersey Public Service.
Going well back in the last century, LILCO (Long Island Lighting) was scandalously over-priced and getting worse. We in NJ were glad we were not in LILCO. 22 cents is less than I would have guessed after decades of 'progress'.
"LILCO was long notorious for its high rates." LILCO was folded in 1998. Ironically some operations were handed over to New Jersey Public Service.
New Jersey Public Service is "PSE&G" -- a pretty well regarded company. JCP&L on the other hand was part of the "Three Mile Island" consortium -- "General Public Utilities" -- which was folded into the holding company for Cleveland Electric. JCP&L was notorious for deferred maintenance. (Which is why we have a Generac!)
Roughly 0,5€/kWh, our house's consumption is 21-23 000kWh/y
Very difficult to say prescise price, threre are so many different charging schemes, our price is tied to daily e-stock price and rate is different during day time in the winter. We installed an air-water heatpump in October and are expecting 25-35% reduction in consumption this year. On the other hand our new PHEV sucks 10-15kWh per night.
Very difficult to say prescise price, threre are so many different charging schemes, our price is tied to daily e-stock price and rate is different during day time in the winter. We installed an air-water heatpump in October and are expecting 25-35% reduction in consumption this year. On the other hand our new PHEV sucks 10-15kWh per night.
I will comment about my solar panels inverter.
With midday sunlight on very clear days during Summer, the voltage across the panels without load is 285V DC. With load this drops to a minimum of about 220V DC. At peak, the panels supply a power of about 1500W although sometimes this rises to almost 2000W. When I inspected the inside of the inverter, I noticed there were 6 large electrolytic capacitors which may imply the inverter, first it changes the PV's voltage to a high stable DC voltage suitable for the inverter's output stage. My impression is there are two high voltage rails, one being positive and the other negative. According to my thinking, the inverter's output is synthesised using the mains instantaneous voltage as a modulator signal. This makes sure the inverter's output and instantaneous mains voltage follow each other accurately.
With the above inverter topology the output can be finely controlled to have full control of the output current into the grid. This means, there is no residential grid power over feeding.
How this can be done:
The mains voltage is continuously monitored. When this rises to values approaching the set upper limit, the output voltage is slightly reduced to lower the output current.
With midday sunlight on very clear days during Summer, the voltage across the panels without load is 285V DC. With load this drops to a minimum of about 220V DC. At peak, the panels supply a power of about 1500W although sometimes this rises to almost 2000W. When I inspected the inside of the inverter, I noticed there were 6 large electrolytic capacitors which may imply the inverter, first it changes the PV's voltage to a high stable DC voltage suitable for the inverter's output stage. My impression is there are two high voltage rails, one being positive and the other negative. According to my thinking, the inverter's output is synthesised using the mains instantaneous voltage as a modulator signal. This makes sure the inverter's output and instantaneous mains voltage follow each other accurately.
With the above inverter topology the output can be finely controlled to have full control of the output current into the grid. This means, there is no residential grid power over feeding.
How this can be done:
The mains voltage is continuously monitored. When this rises to values approaching the set upper limit, the output voltage is slightly reduced to lower the output current.
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Daytime charge: 0.12 Euro/kWh
Night time charge: 0.08 Euro/kWh
With all the additional charges, I end paying 0.22 Euro/kWh
George
Night time charge: 0.08 Euro/kWh
With all the additional charges, I end paying 0.22 Euro/kWh
George
That's exactly what they do. When we first moved into our house I couldn't work out why the Solar meter was not going up (ie apparently no generation above what was being used during the day, even on days when no one was home).
I noticed that our 240V was routinely 249-250V so I did a bit of research and found that my inverter was programmable. Got an adapter that let me attach it to my pc, and checked its settings. It was set to shut down if the grid reached 246V (which it was almost always higher than).
I checked the regulations and found that it was ok to go up to 10% over the nominal 240V, so adjusted it to 252V (still way under the limit, although I believe it has now been revised to max 255V).
Problem solved. Paid for the dongle after the first quarterly bill 🙂
Tony.
£0.1407534 per kWh for electricity and £0.0224552 per kWh for gas.
Combined standing charge is £0.424 per day. Fixed tariff regardless of consumption.
Combined standing charge is £0.424 per day. Fixed tariff regardless of consumption.
You can ask the supplier to drop your voltage back a bit, and they will. I know a few people who have made this request.
Australia's nominal mains voltage was dropped back to 230V some years ago, it used to be 240V. See here
Your 252V set point is borderline too high.
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My UK mains is routinely 250V, often 255V.
It is due to ancient MV infrastructure and local substation tap changers wound up, or not automatically functioning any longer, meaning industrial draw, pulls the voltage down to spec, at peak demand. The rest of the time it's high.
It is due to ancient MV infrastructure and local substation tap changers wound up, or not automatically functioning any longer, meaning industrial draw, pulls the voltage down to spec, at peak demand. The rest of the time it's high.