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Just loving my EV 😉 Jump in and look and the range. Then turn the heater setting up and watch the range drop before you've even moved. Green washing BS.

I know its a "modern" thing to believe that because something is old its no good. Not a line of thinking i use, or understand. In my world, one does maintenance at appropiate intervals to keep equipment working. Which wont be that much if its mothballed. Certainly wont wear out quickly. My point was only ever to keep it as back up. Mothball it in some state of suitable readiness. Rather than blowing it up. Which is utterly dumb.

The point is all the existing plants are old. The youngest is over 40 years old and Radcliffe is nearly 60. The oldest plant I can see on Wikipedia was not quite 70 years at end of life. So we can assume RoS had a few years left at best.

What are you "filtering out"?

And this is the thing to fix. As said earlier, you fix the root cause, don't apply regulations on top based on the assumption that you are too weak to fix the cause. Not sure what you mean by physical check. You won't be able to tell much by physically looking at products. (product depending, egregious things more obvious but lots of subtlties no) By checking the certificates what I mean is communicating with the labs who supposedly issued them to check they are geniune and confirm they relate to the product in front of you. Historically most of the China Export stuff hasn't even bothered to go to the stage of faking these certificates. They just put some general (not product specific) certificates up and call it a day. Amazon should be checking this stuff on things on their store. They don't and offload the responsibility to the seller (not sure that legally holds up in the first place but if it doesn't the law can be changed). Going after Amazon (and aliexpress, etc) would stop a lot of the crap stuff getting in. High street retaillers, etc, are already pretty good.

I didnt build this. Fed off barn roof. Clay lined. 4m deep. Sadly, was entirely surrounded by rushes. Slowly eliminating and replacing with other stuff. But its big, so years of work

You "can" do checks. Indeed ive pointed this out already up there ^^^^ Sadly however, we wont do any checks. This is the UK. Nothing works anymore. Paperwork checks are pointless anyway, as said certificates will just be forged. Only a proper physical check will achieve anything.

Other countries have made big progress by having customs and/or trading standards equivalent go pick up stuff off the shelves and verify it and then penalise the importers if the right certifications don't exist. You are never going to zero but dodgy imports can be reduced significantly with a bit of enforcement effort. With a lot of electronics (depending on what it is) there are 3rd party testing requirements that have to be done by licensed labs so if those certifications aren't available it's pretty easy to stop. Rules are less strict on other things so it would be harder to stop fake 'CE' imports of toys, etc.

Well, yes, you notify them, but they can reject it/question it should they choose to do so. But the G98 form is completely inappropiate for this. Ie, it asks for the qualifications of the installer. Clearly this is nonsense for a plug in panel. Im confident that it wont apply in this case if this idea comes to fruition.

I did, but only just read it moments before arriving at this post. Im a bit mystified, however, about the intello layer idea. Im no builder, but ive been in a lot of roofs, and none had anything like this.

Of course, to avoid all this complication, dont tell building control. Problem fixed.

You don't apply for it, it just a notification, saying your house has a generator that do upto 3.6kW output. But really if all or most houses have some generation, you should almost flip the notification, to you don't have a generation connected to the grid. Or just scrap the needless bureaucracy. And it is paperwork for the sake of it, to keep the masses in their place

You can switch on of at will, they do it the time. If you couldn't switch off it wouldn't be safe. A field or several field are connected to one offshore facility. But they are also connected to an onshore hub. They all work together, it's not a 5 mins task to start up a none producing asset,so quite a lot of forward planning is needed.

Its unfixable. Whatever process you put in place, they just make it look the same. Of fake the paperwork. Or whatever. You can by rolls of the CE stickers anywhere in China.

For some reason you have gone a rabbit hole of saying how useless new coal plants would be. Not sure how you got there as the discussion was about the daftness of knocking one, note, one, down. In the beginnings of an energy crisis. Nobody suggested we do and you appear to be arguing with yourself?

There cannot be anyway that people will be, or be expected to apply for G98. Outside this small group on the forum, than man on the street has no idea about such things. If said panels are availble in Lidl, they will buy them and plug them in.

Post Grenfell I can't see that happening here, for larger blocks anyway. Maybe below 11m.

This is a known problem with existing solar/battery/etc installs. The electrical regs were relatively conservative, preferring the new generation to cut out early and delay reconnection. Since new generation got bigger these limits started becoming problematic. There's more noise on the line than 0.2v, also you might lose several volts on the connection from the grid to the inverter in local cabling. Having a window of 2-3v might help. (Each inverter choosing a value at random within that range every 24 hrs or similar). Yeh, that's the long term solution, making new energy inverters be grid forming not grid following. I believe this is already happening to a degree, though maybe this will never happen in residential solar, only commercial scale for the reasons of making sure grid workers aren't exposed to unexpectedly live cables. (Having said that they work on live cables an awful lot as it is so maybe worth evaluating exactly where the line should be drawn). It's a key signalling mechanism that is used by modern inverters too, so frequency modification is not going to go away. Victron inverters can vary the frequency of their output to control 3rd party inverters connected downstream. (I think this only works when they are working in a UPS mode, ie, not connected to mains).

From what I can tell the last coal plant built was 1995 and the newest undemolished coal plant is 1983, so they are pretty ancient. And as someone mentioned coal plants are not very flexible, which makes them a fairly crap and inefficient match for renewables

That sort of vertically integrated setup where the gas is never sold on the open market might work. Maybe you can answer this - can gas extraction beveadikybramled up and down. Ie is a gas well similar to a tapnonce drilled where we can turn the flow down to zero, then restart it again by opening the tap or once the flow starts do we have to keep it flowing. If the former then it could be debzibke to drill a new field amd connect it up exclusively to be turned on to supply some gas backup plants. That way the relatively small size if the reserve is less important as we rarely use it. Of course that implies we massively reduce gas demand - by the "Net zero" polices of heat electrification and increacing renewable generation.

Tie their own shoelaces.

I just read elsewhere on the forum about the building regs requirement for gigabit capable infrastructure mandatory. Have i screwed up by ditching openreaches incompetence and going with Starlink as my only connection to the outside world. I have read the requirement before, forgotten it i guess and then gone my own way. Clearly starlink is not hardwired. Depends on an acceptable definition of 'infrastructure' i suppose.

Started a new job at start of March, offshore gas field, was originally built in late 80s by the government and originally owned by the government. Was used exclusively for gas turbine generators for peak loads. But when British Gas was privatised it was also. They did in the 80s, no reason why a government couldn't do it again. Drill for Britain, by Britain, and owned by Britain. Then worldwide oil and gas prices don't matter so much.

I was wondering why the test certificate had pictures of the Mr. Men on it. lol.

In Germany they brought in a law a couple of years ago that voided such restrictions: Germany Grants Renters the Right to Install Solar Systems on Balconies