Lowering electricity costs?

[fasimew]

Let's say I had a small business which runs in the background from home, but I'm looking to scale up into an actual business. The only thing holding me back is the electricity demands. Current domestic rates are capped at 0.25kWh. I can stomach a few hundred quid a month extra, but scaling up to 1-2MW per day starts adding up. Assuming you can't cut electricity usage, how would you cut the cost of electricity? Can businesses get deals for high consumption?

[fasimew]

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

[fasimew]

Thank you both for the insight, but that's quite obvious to anyone with a modicum of knowledge.

[fasimew]

I hope he's going to be ok.

[fasimew]

iguana said:

Lucky you are on domestic rate for electricity, our commercial electric is 59p kwh

Wow. Why is there such a gap?

[fasimew]

Yawn.

[fasimew]

I've just googled that. Sounds like complete snake oil... Lowers your voltage to reduce electricity consumption? The fack is that about? A load will take as much current as it needs. You lower the voltage, the current demand goes up. Where's the saving?

Now if you were talking PFC, yeah that's actually useful.