Carbon Intensity work: thanks! Also, the Myenergi Eddi solar PV diverter was ordered, arrived, got some bench testing, and had the start of a set of control scripts written for it. I continued to develop and tweak the control system throughout the year; by December PV diversion and low-carbon boost from grid were working well.
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I officially start as a part-time student at the University of Surrey for an Environment and Sustainability PhD on 9th January. Gloriously, the official offer letter has the end date as 1931... I remember at the time being told that Y2K was a fake, and would never happen, while I was busily fixing bits of it in banking and elsewhere!
I don't know how well I'll hack life as a part academic. It is the best way that I can currently think of to tackle climate change. I'll keep updating Earth Notes as I go...
There's more on my "Earth Notes" Web site at Earth.Org.UK
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This took me far longer to write than I allowed for, having started in the morning of the 2nd. It turns out that my kids are back at school on the 3rd, leaving me in relative peace to record!
Full diary notes:
At 16WW over 28 days from 2022-11-28 to 2022-12-26: gas consumption was 20.1kWh/d, electricity imports were 6.2kWh/d, electricity net imports were 6.1kWh/d.
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' peak-period lockout (and an unusually late-finishing top-up period overnight from the 23rd). 50 tonnes of household waste [were] alight.
EarthOrgUK
passed 2000 followers on Twitter, having virtually stopped using it... gen1
and gen2
variable outputs to the energy series dataset. If I start tooting these carbon intensities on Mastodon, should they be:
Under a separate handle(two votes), or
Mixed with other 'wisdom'(one vote)!
I have 32% as of 2021 (ie latest full year).
Hey #energytwitter, what's you favorite energy economics / electricity markets podcast?
(Presenting Eloise, who was awarded an outstanding six grade 9s, three grade 8s and one grade 7. What an absolute legend!)
sitting in the kitchen having lunch, listening to my @myenergiuk eddi clicking off (stopping diverting) when grid frequency drops < 49.9Hz! Hurrah!
at
command so that I could at noon
something I want to run when the sun has been out for a bit tomorrow. I used to use at
all the time, eg at uni, but probably haven't for a decade or two since it was not installed by default. But it only took a apt-get install at
and about 30 seconds to bring it all back! # Retail GB electricity carbon intensity as computed by earth.org.uk. # Time gCO2e/kWh # Intensities gCO2/kWh: BIOMASS=120 CCGT=394 COAL=937 INTELEC=53 INTEW=458 INTFR=53 INTIFA2=53 INTIRL=458 INTNED=474 INTNEM=179 INTNSL=16 NPSHYD=0 NUCLEAR=0 OCGT=651 OIL=935 OTHER=300 WIND=0 2022-01-01T00:00Z 85 2022-01-01T00:05Z 88 ...
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