SteamyTea

Looks like a trout run on a dry river.

I need to revisit this as I think PV is the best option for reducing my cash outgoings. I think my going roof integrated I can squeeze in a few more watts (can always put the tray edges under my neighbours tiles, they will never know).

Nor has people's understanding of the very, very, basic science if energy usage. How often do we hear on the news/consumer interest programs about people talking about their energy costs, but not their actual usage. Like saying a car costs £2500, but not specifying which car, or how old it is.

I looked (casually) at this a while back. I can see a benefit of limiting peak loads, but would require quite a bit of smart kit to do it. Don't think it would be easy to do for all the ToU tariffs, the whole idea is you move that peak to when there is spare generation capacity. Worth remembering that a CCGT is not switched on and they off like a central heating boiler. Many are running hot, ready to connect within a few seconds, others are spinning up or down depending on predicted load. I think the biggest problem is that most households could not manage to load shift enough. This will lead to the energy suppliers being accused of ripping customers off with false claims. There are still people that think putting in a smart meter will save energy, as if the more accurate metering is, in itself, an energy saving devise.

Can you add secondary glazing on a few windows (North facing maybe). Add more PV (if DNO allows). Make sure heating has controls that lower energy usage. More loft insulation. Waste Water Heat Recovery.

And then do nothing about it.

I have the same issues on my 1987 house, it has to be brown. Mine is blue.

Me neither, price per watt installed. The only time module efficiency makes aa real difference is when space is tight. My roof is 4m wide and 4.5m long, so I can get, if I ever bother, 8 0.995m by 1.65 (ish)m modules on. Shame there is not a module 2m long. A few years back I was chatting to a timber frame builder who was wetting himself that 'thin film' modules has an efficiency of 18%, don't think he grasped it at all.

And you may be able to get an overall larger array with more, smaller modules.

Check the size of higher output modules. A quick google pulled up this, a 345W module, but it is H 1.98 W 1.002, so 178W/m2 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aa1453f4611a037c22bfb95/t/62b590589b7c74228bb0f616/1656066146918/UKSOL+Poly+72+cell+5BB+345w.pdf The ones you have been quoted are 162 W/m2 So not a great deal of difference

Probably sent from an iPhone. You have to pay extra to see it all.

How about a hinged hydraulic ramp. Few quits worth of steel. Ford Fiesta is a future classic now.

Today is my bin day, when is yours?

By being quiet.

Is a reed bed a possibility?

All depends where you are starting from and what you include in the counting.

As she sit on a Caribbean beach wondering what all that marriage malarkey was all about. Statistically, divorced men with children become financially better off.

Bluetooth headphones. I used to go and watch the BFI silent movies when they projected then onto the side of the NT. Good night out.

My socks could be insulation. You need to know how much, and what type is fitted.

Play them on a slower speed.

Binatone is German for Amstrad.

True, but how long will the £3/kWh offset payment be sustainable if even 10,000 people take part. And it won't touch the sides of our energy consumption. Let us say that there is a mean shifting of 1.3 kWh. The cost to the company is £39,000 a day, £14 million a year. Can't see shareholders wanting that to last very long.

The more buttons an amp has, the better the sound. I remember an interesting debate about the sound quality advantages of having an S shaped arm on a turntable. The interesting bit was who did not understand trigonometry.

Like this

Lower and Higher heating values. https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/fuels-higher-calorific-values-d_169.html