chris_n

Any sign of the 700c version yet? Would it be possible to ship to Austria? I have a nice carbon Cannondale Synapse that I am thinking of electrifying as there is no such thing as a flat road around here.

For the third time, use an ecoflow smart meter with the correct ecoflow batteries to have them charge with only excess export. Other solutions are available but as far as I know not within the 'solar generator' field.

The Shelly (I think only the ones sold by Ecoflow) and Ecoflow smart meters communicate with the Ecoflow power station via WiFi. I don't believe you can get charging control with the Shelly, just discharge with zero export.

If you use an Ecoflow Stream AC pro with an Ecoflow smart meter you can get it to charge using only your spare export.

My experience of riding on snow with decent tyres showed the problem wasn't so much gripping the snow as when the snow doesn't grip the ice underneath it!

You have failed to take int account that at that point UK is exporting 7.2% of it's generation.

The display is set up incorrectly.

If you read the report you would see that the police were talking to the woman about her completely legal ebike , they also didn't say that the chained up bike was illegal merely that the policeman was looking at it.

That bike has a dropper seat post, can't do that with an NCX (that I know of). For me despite riding off road 95% of the time a dropper is more important than a suspension post. Of course with a fully you can have both. YMMV.

Uk nuclear is not in good condition, currently there are 6 of those 9 reactors offline. Most are planned outages for maintenance and refueling but 2 are unplanned. As the fleet ages the maintenance requirements have increased.

That is where my figures came from but you are looking 4-5 hours later. When I posted the price had just gone up, when you have looked the price has been higher for 4 hours so the past day (maybe it should say past 24 hours because it is dynamic) figure will be significantly higher. Agree a backup source of generation / supply is required. As you say doubling wind generation does not guarantee anything when the wind isn't blowing for weeks on end, 200% of nothing is still nothing!

Over the last few hours solar has dropped to zero (unsurprising) and wind has reduced a little to 17.29GW from about 20GW. This means an increase of imports and gas, the current price is £103.66 MWh i.e. over 10 times what it was. Wind is also currently curtailed by about 2GWh.

Remember the increase in strike price only applies to new infrastructure that won't have been built yet. Anything that is currently being built has already agreed the price they would get before they started building. Any increase above the strike price due to demand/more expensive sources coming online goes back to the government via the Cfd scheme after costs incurred when the market price is below the strike price. Over the last 24 hours the market price has been an average of £12.59 MWh i.e. nearly free.

Don't disagree at all, just that isn't classed as curtailment. If I remember correctly they are rated at 12m/s. Above 12m/s they start to derate but they still produce their rated output while still protecting themselves.

The curtailment isn't through feathering the turbines, it is as you say due to grid connection issues. I too am from the North East and am well aware of the issues you mention. Where I live we have massive amounts of hydro power with power stations and switch gear often in beautiful populated valleys. Usually the power is transported overhead, often you can drive or cycle down the valleys without noticing it as it is often invisible against the background of forest on the valley sides.