G83/1 recommendations for connection....
Sometimes I worry about the world. The mains electricity in this country is some of the best power in the world, with arguably some of the best power quality.
It can be shown that most (over 90%) of the truly damaging things in terms of power interruption and corruption are local: ie generated by you or your neighbours, or environmental: ie caused by weather or local magnetic fields etc. In other words you import power problems whenever you buy power from the grid.
However it can also be shown that unless something drastically changes we will not have enough production to cover our demand, not in decades but in years maybe even months.
Nobody wants to build nuclear power stations or have even green alternatives like large scale wind near their house, so one of the saviours of our national grid is set to be small scale generation.
In other words each homeowner can have their personal choice of solar panels, hydro electric, wind power or domestic combined heat and power to reduce their electricity bill and thus the load on big power stations.
The standard or "engineering recommendation" that covers small scale generation is called G83/1, and its written by a committee of interested parties. What this means in practise is that instead of your DIY windmill or watermill being easily available at B&Q for a minor investment, the current minimum investment is around £5000 for DCHP or £10000 for a windmill.
But don't worry Windsave is here to "Save the Day", with Advance's help of course. On monday 11th we will be testing a low cost inverter to the G83/1 standard, look out world here we come.
It can be shown that most (over 90%) of the truly damaging things in terms of power interruption and corruption are local: ie generated by you or your neighbours, or environmental: ie caused by weather or local magnetic fields etc. In other words you import power problems whenever you buy power from the grid.
However it can also be shown that unless something drastically changes we will not have enough production to cover our demand, not in decades but in years maybe even months.
Nobody wants to build nuclear power stations or have even green alternatives like large scale wind near their house, so one of the saviours of our national grid is set to be small scale generation.
In other words each homeowner can have their personal choice of solar panels, hydro electric, wind power or domestic combined heat and power to reduce their electricity bill and thus the load on big power stations.
The standard or "engineering recommendation" that covers small scale generation is called G83/1, and its written by a committee of interested parties. What this means in practise is that instead of your DIY windmill or watermill being easily available at B&Q for a minor investment, the current minimum investment is around £5000 for DCHP or £10000 for a windmill.
But don't worry Windsave is here to "Save the Day", with Advance's help of course. On monday 11th we will be testing a low cost inverter to the G83/1 standard, look out world here we come.
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