Author: Brimstone Energy
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Safeguarding your biggest asset throughout the Green Energy Transition
We recently wrote about fear being the enemy of action. This is especially relevant to homeowners, since inviting tradespeople into your home is not without risk. We probably all know of someone who has had a poor experience with respect to building work. My own elderly parents have lost thousands of pounds at the hands…
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Decarbonising the Grid
The UK National Grid is a remarkable thing. Just reflect for one moment. The grid allows you to turn on a light, whenever you need it. This isn’t the case in other countries. In South Africa, the grid doesn’t deliver power 24 hours a day. In the USA, the grid is remarkably unreliable, as the…
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Fear – the enemy of action
At Brimstone Energy UK, we are constantly searching for the right ways to communicate to our customers. Presently most of our customers fall into the “early adopter” cohort. But for the Green Energy Transition to deliver the results we need it to, we must reach out beyond this cohort into the mass market. A conversation…
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Five key reasons to get Battery Storage
Home Battery storage is a great investment. Your motivations for acquiring battery storage will vary depending on your circumstance, but here are five key reasons to get battery storage: Increase your Solar PV self-consumption. One of the draw backs of Solar PV is that without storage, you can either use the electricity generated there and…
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Never stop evolving
During a recent trip to Syon Park in London, we were struck be some timeless messages provided by the setting and the landscape itself. Notably that we must never stop evolving. Syon Park is the London home of the Dukes of Northumberland, who acquired the estate in 1603. But its history goes back much further.…
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Data, people, markets and the energy transition
We were privileged to watch the inaugural Imperial College lecture by Professor Pierre Pinson in a talk titled “Data, people, markets and the energy transition.” Professor Pinson is a cross-discipline academic, working at the intersection of data and markets. His talk was quite wide ranging and touched on aspects of the Green Energy Transition that…
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Capability Brown – the ultimate lesson in long term planning
When we think of Capability Brown, we probably immediately bring to mind a grand English country house estate. We think of landscape-scale design. We think of mansions sitting within a landscape that has been sculpted for the benefit of the resident Lord of the Manor. Capability Brown is the English Landscape. So widespread is his…
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Electrification: For the many not the few?
This is a transcript of the speech given by Matt Hilton at Solar and Storage London 29 April 2024 12.20hrs Charge EV / Solar Innovation Stage Electrification: For the many not the few? Good afternoon, my name is Matt Hilton, Founder and Director of Brimstone Energy. We are a UK start up whose mission is…
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The standing charge sleight of hand
The headline energy prices have fallen slightly in April 2024. But you needed to look beyond the headline to spot that whilst the unit cost of electricity has fallen slightly, the standing charge has risen (yet again). We call this “the standing charge sleight of hand.” Increasing the standing charge is a deliberate policy choice.…
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The economic case for Home Storage Batteries
We get asked a lot about the economic case for Home Storage Batteries. GivEnergy have written some case studies on their website and on LinkedIn which provide some insight about how others have managed to reduce their energy bills to close to zero. These are worth a look and can provide you with great inspiration.…