This is a series of posts on renewables and technology that look at both the technology and options at the grid and local levels. Energy — this post looked at the structure of the market and why the UK had seen 234% increase in the cost of gas when its…

I’ve mentioned earlier that this decade is regarded as one of storage and discussed local or distributed storage but that leaves the question of storage at grid level storage and in particular the issue of curtailment. US residential home consumes on average the order of 29kWh/day so a small 150MW…

The saying goes that the last decade was about deployment of renewables and this decade is going to be about storage, but why.? Storage made sense if you had an electric vehicle and this was the early usage, charge the storage during the day and then charge the car overnight…

Apparently, heat pumps are going to be the saving of UK energy crisis, that and renewables but I don’t think with the current technology this is realistic as they have a number of challenges. This is a technology that Fortune recently noted came to prominence in the 1970s when the…

I saw a tweet this week and it was highlighting that UK only takes the order of 4% of its gas from Russia but gas prices have risen 234% whereas European countries such as Germany and France had a higher dependency on Russia for gas but had experienced low double…

Greg Brougham (@SailingGreg) and Jon Husband (@jonhusband), April 2022 Introduction The Covid pandemic and the range of responses to its impact have proven to most people engaged in knowledge work that flexible locations for working are now an operational reality and not just a pipe dream. And the impact extends far…

These have been challenging times but access to good coffee has been one of the challenges. My solution has been to dust of my Rancilio and sort my technique out. These are my notes on have to live when the Silvia which can produce a great coffee. One of the…