In the next week or so, shipments of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) will reach their destinations marking the end of supplies from the Middle East now halted by the US/Israeli attack(s) on Iran & the Iranian response.
After that (given the damage to LNG facilities in the region of the war), there will be between three to five years of constrained supply & higher prices.
Essentially exactly what's needed to drive an accelerated green transition (ironic, huh?)
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yes, the illegal installs could be seen as a form of civil disobedience?
@peterbrown @ChrisMayLA6 So properly you are supposed to have an electrician fit you a separate connection between the consumer unit and any generation equipment, along with a bidirectional RCBO, isolator and correct single line diagram and labelling. You then wire up to 3.68kW of type approved equipment to it and fill in a G98 form and you are done.
In practice people buy stuff like the Ecoflow Stream kit, put a plug on the end of the cable and plug it into the wall and maybe do the G98
@peterbrown @ChrisMayLA6 There are risks to that because you are sharing a ring main so could overload it, and the protection (RCBO or whatever) is not bidirectional so could get damaged.
Almost entirely theoretical but if a million people install them 1 in a million things start to matter.
Ecoflow originally provided kit with a plug, got told off and changed to a plug lead marked "do not use" 😀 and a lead ready for "wiring in" cut for a plug!
New kit just has a wire cut for a plug
@peterbrown @ChrisMayLA6 The other actually legal approach is to get non grid tie but grid chargeable kit, plug your solar into it, set it to charge on cheap overnight power as well and plug a bunch of appliances into it (often via extension cable spaghetti)
This is legal but arguably even more dangerous. It can be useful though in an apartment or if you've got some steady reliable power consumers (eg small air/air heatpumps) so you can make good use of the power without spaghetti
@etchedpixels @peterbrown @ChrisMayLA6
"It can be useful though in an apartment"
I think this is a part of the renewable conversation which almost always gets overlooked. What about people who live in apartments? Even if they have the money to install solar (or even some wind too), good luck getting permission from the landlord to put it in. There need to be more systems that cover the territory between "no solar" and "full system permanently installed on and in your house that you own."
@etchedpixels @peterbrown @ChrisMayLA6
This is part of the EV conversation too. It seems to me that there is an unwritten assumption that the EV buyer has their own house that they can install a fast-charger in. The only home-charging option for most people living in apartments is slow-charging with a cord running out a window. Either EV batteries have to get better, to where they can be charged away from home as fast as filling up a fuel tank, or landlords have to install fast-chargers.
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