200% increase in fuel for cars and do we drive less no

if demand sit management will work will i only be able to wash my close when its wind e

sounds like a few things are missing fortcating of wind is a bit variable at present

Anyway, the point is that the man said having a dual tariff is often more expensive. I said I’d look into it but since my meter has 2 dials, I could do both. But as usual, it’s not simple: they would need to change the meter again to go back to single tariff (too complicated to add up 2 readings?).

Bottom line:
- Smart meters are still a long way in the UK (like reading through power lines, GSM chips or RFID + truck in the street). In many countries, all new builds have meters that can be accessed from the outside)…

- It already takes a pHD to work out your better tariff, I wonder what consumer adoption is going to be -UNLESS, it’s fully automated. We’re a long long way of linking appliances to the meter to my mind….

Consise and precise as usual.

I agree fully with Pats comments but I think he would be surprised as how much of this is happening for industrial users. Tom, you know that the price of electricity paid by CIX Ltd. varies from 6 cent to 21 cent. The fun will come over the next few years as domestic consumers will inevitably be pushed onto realtime pricing tariffs.

Unfortunately electricity storage is not as easy as Eric thinks. There are a few compressed air storage plants in the world but they depend on having a large airtight cavern and are not a possibility for Ireland as we don’t have a suitable mine. The technology is called Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) and is not used by anyone to regenerate electricity directly (except in some data centres) but rather at part of an efficiency improvement in the combustion of Gas. connection.

The other energy storage technology worth considering is pumped hydro. We already have a 300MW x 8hour facility in Turlough Hill. Dr. Eamon McKeogh in the environmental engineering department at UCC has been studying this for a long number of years. At the EirGrid customer conference in November 2007, a cost and carbon analysis for many grid stabilisation strategies, including pumped hydro, was presented and pumped hydro came out with a very low rating.

Energy demand management based on realtime pricing is coming and very few people understand what this really means. The price of electricity will be a realtime commodity and we will all be able to buy and sell it when we chose based on the current price. This is an alien concept to most people. Its closer to eBay than to the way we currently think about buying electricity.

When excess generating capacity is needed, you simply run the compressed air through a turbine to generate extra electricity.

Compressed aiur can be stored for years without losing its pressure and is relatively cheap and environmentally friendly to store.