Tag: battery storage
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GivEnergy GivBack in association with Axle Energy
Making money from Battery Storage If you own a battery storage system, you now have an additional income stream that can enhance your return on investment. And remember, this income stream probably sits on top of your Return on Investment calculations. So whilst here at Brimstone Energy expect a pay back in the region of…
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What about Hydrogen?
The UK’s replacement of natural gas with hydrogen is being challenged by British company Brimstone Energy who suggest electrification of heating as a better alternative. They cite a National Infrastructure Commission verdict stating no policy case for hydrogen in individual homes, environmental impacts and system costs of hydrogen heating. Despite hydrogen’s lower than expected expense,…
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The Alchemy of Public EV Charging
A few months ago we wrote an article looking at the challenges of deploying smart charging in the public charging network. So it was with considerable interest that we read the recent press release from ubitricity/Shell Recharge which announced that they were “shifting demand away from peak hours”. Unfortunately there was almost no detail provided…
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SMART Meters consistently disappoint
Almost everyone that has had a SMART Meter installed has been underwhelmed by the result. The generation 1 smart meters were anything but smart. Bizarrely, the meters could only be read by the energy company that had installed it. This is a particularly perverse outcome. A whole industry was created around customers switching utility suppliers,…
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Energy Abundance
The world is without doubt a better place with abundant inexpensive energy. But the question arises, can we still continue to advance as a society if energy costs permanently become more expensive?
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Savings Sessions are back!
The Electricity System Operator (ESO) has just launched the 2023/24 Demand Flexibility Service. This is an incentive scheme to get businesses and customers to reduce their power requirements at certain times. We have previously blogged about the 22/23 scheme, which was judged a success, with 1.6 million households taking part and saving over 3,300MWh of…
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What does bi-directional EV charging mean for home storage batteries?
We do think that bi-directional charging is really exciting. There is a real opportunity to have a distributed Virtual Power Plant, with multi GWh of storage capacity available. However we haven’t seen a convincing financial model that clearly articulates how this can work for the average working family.
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GivEnergy EV Charger
GivEnergy are shortly to release their EV charger to the market. We believe that this will be a game changer for GivEnergy’s position in the marketplace.
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Reasons to achieve Energy Independence
If you want to insure yourself from external price shocks, you too should consider investing in a home energy system.
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The “sunk cost fallacy” of gas heating
The principle reason to go down the hydrogen route is because we have an extensive existing grid network for distributing gas, a professional trade body that is experienced in supplying and fitting central heating boilers, and a customer base that is well adapted to benefit from gas fired central heating. These are the sunk costs.…