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Chris Pearson:
Sparkingchip:
The Channel Islands are the furthest south, but their electric meters probably have to speak French as the electric supplied is imported from France for the larger islands.Do the smaller ones generate their own?
Should be plenty of solar, and from my sailing experience, plenty of wind. Mind you, it was a glorious sunset (again this week) over the Solent with barely a ripple.
Sparkingchip:
A big dirty diesel generator supplies Sark assuming no one has turned it off.
A small set up that demonstrates all the problems of running an electrical generation and distribution company.
If people on the island have intermittent supplies from their own generation such as solar PV it will make the problems even worse for the generation company as that big Diesel engine will have to be kept ticking over just in case someone needs it without the company being paid anything.
Instead of the Sark customers having smart meters it would be better for the generation company if they just paid a significant daily standing charge and little or nothing for metered usage.
Andy Betteridge
Simon Barker:
Sparkingchip:
A big dirty diesel generator supplies Sark assuming no one has turned it off.
A small set up that demonstrates all the problems of running an electrical generation and distribution company.
If people on the island have intermittent supplies from their own generation such as solar PV it will make the problems even worse for the generation company as that big Diesel engine will have to be kept ticking over just in case someone needs it without the company being paid anything.
Instead of the Sark customers having smart meters it would be better for the generation company if they just paid a significant daily standing charge and little or nothing for metered usage.
Andy Betteridge
On Orkney, they have shut down and decommissioned their diesel power station. The islands are now powered by wind and solar, with islanders being encouraged to buy batteries to even out the demand.
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