

Home Solar Batteries - Oversold Expectations? : Part 1- The Spark
Background If you're reading this you probably already share my interest in installing a home battery storage solution to reduce reliance...


Thinking Solar - Low Power Kettle
Okay, so a kettle is a kettle - you fill it with water, plug it in, switch it on, and a few minutes later it's boiled. Fine, for the...


Smart Metering: A Clever Green Solution rapidly becoming a White Elephant ?
It's now over a month into 2018 and with the UK parliament looking into both project progress against targets and further modification of...


Solar PV Generation Estimation: PVGIS-5 (Beta Release)
The PVGIS-5 Solar PV generation estimation tool release candidate is now available in Beta - A user's look at what's new and whether


Energy Efficient Home: Electricity Jan 2011-Sept 2017
For the past week I've been thinking that the apples down the garden are looking pretty tasty and only yesterday I noticed the early...


Tesla Powerwall 2 - Business brilliance or a concept in need of a reality check ?
Having expended considerable effort trawling through literally hundreds of articles, I find it incredulous that no-one has conducted researc


Smart Metering - (1). Introduction: What's it all about ?
We've all seen the latest advertising campaigns for the smart metering roll-out in the UK: you know the one, it looks like it's designed...


Energy saving - LED: Time to replace the TV ?
In these days of multitasking and social networking how many of us are guilty of leaving the TV flashing away and chattering way to...


Solar PV - Savings on Electricity Bills
When looking at consumption of all kinds, many of us strive to reduce usage to save the planet whilst for others the primary motive is to...


Feed-in-Tariff (UK) - Export Tariff
Within the UK Feed-in-Tariff scheme, in addition to the main generation based tariff an additional payment is included to value...