Lowering electricity costs?

Lowering electricity costs?

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iguana

7,044 posts

261 months

Saturday 20th April
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fasimew said:
Wow. Why is there such a gap?
No price cap on commercial & in our case the landlord provides the infrastructure & adds on a tad.

Hill92

4,242 posts

191 months

Sunday 21st April
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fasimew said:
Currently there is no premesis to speak of, other than my garage. There will be no load shedding or off peak hours.

I have worked on a 4MW solar installation, where a PPA contract was used. This meant that a DNO bought the power produced for a length of time at a specified rate. I don't know if such an agreement can be had as a consumer?

I have a meeting pencilled in with a renewable energy expert to discuss ideas. A suggestion that's been made is to sell the heat produced to offset the consumption.

Edited by fasimew on Wednesday 17th April 17:41
On a serious note, have a look at https://rippleenergy.com/business/ripple-for-busin...

200Plus Club

10,773 posts

279 months

Monday 22nd April
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Frimley111R said:
Voltage Optimiser - reduces electricity costs by around 10%.
Local REC can and will supply voltage within their described limits. You might already be at the lower end of the scale, you might be at the high end. These units can work but do very little in the real world. Have had experience of them commercially.

Frimley111R

15,677 posts

235 months

Monday 22nd April
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200Plus Club said:
Frimley111R said:
Voltage Optimiser - reduces electricity costs by around 10%.
Local REC can and will supply voltage within their described limits. You might already be at the lower end of the scale, you might be at the high end. These units can work but do very little in the real world. Have had experience of them commercially.
They can't if it affects other locations on the same supply.

I do agree that they seem like snake oil but in reality, what they do is very simple and if companies ranging from British Steel to Halford, Betfred and huge range of other big companies have them, well...

It's worth getting a quick quote from GWE, you have nothing to lose.

200Plus Club

10,773 posts

279 months

Monday 22nd April
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Frimley111R said:
They can't if it affects other locations on the same supply.

I do agree that they seem like snake oil but in reality, what they do is very simple and if companies ranging from British Steel to Halford, Betfred and huge range of other big companies have them, well...

It's worth getting a quick quote from GWE, you have nothing to lose.
You can also alter your hv transformer tappings on your own site free of charge, trust me I've done it on big sites !

Geoffcapes

694 posts

165 months

Monday 22nd April
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iguana said:
fasimew said:
Wow. Why is there such a gap?
No price cap on commercial & in our case the landlord provides the infrastructure & adds on a tad.
The current price for commercial energy is 21-22p kWh so for your landlord to charge you such an exorbitant rate is an absolute rip off!

Geoffcapes

694 posts

165 months

Monday 22nd April
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Frimley111R said:
200Plus Club said:
Frimley111R said:
Voltage Optimiser - reduces electricity costs by around 10%.
Local REC can and will supply voltage within their described limits. You might already be at the lower end of the scale, you might be at the high end. These units can work but do very little in the real world. Have had experience of them commercially.
They can't if it affects other locations on the same supply.

I do agree that they seem like snake oil but in reality, what they do is very simple and if companies ranging from British Steel to Halford, Betfred and huge range of other big companies have them, well...

It's worth getting a quick quote from GWE, you have nothing to lose.
Voltage optimisers 'can' work. To a degree.

However, they can also render equipment inoperable, a lot of modern electrical equipment have a form internal VO in them anyway.

Depends what is being run in the first place.