Smart Grid and Heat Pumps – coming to a neighbourhood near you.
According to Wiki: A smart grid is an electrical grid which includes a variety of operational and energy measures including smart meters, smart appliances, renewable energy resources, and energy efficient resources. Technologies will work with the electrical grid to respond digitally to our quickly changing electric demand. Which means? Amongst other things, when we have an excess of renewable energy rather than just shutting down those wind turbines you’ll get low cost/no cost energy so for instance you can run your heat pump and heat your house (if your heat pump is Smart Grid ready) Remember Economy 7? The idea was to encourage you to use energy when demand on the grid was typically low and conversely reduce demand on the grid when demand was high. Similar concept – a dynamic tariff with energy prices going up and down with supply and demand. A heat pump is one of the best uses of this low cost energy as heat can be stored in the fabric of the building and hot water. It’s also multiplied by the efficiency of the heat pump
According to Wiki: A smart grid is an electrical grid which includes a variety of operational and energy measures including smart meters, smart appliances, renewable energy resources, and energy efficient resources. Technologies will work with the electrical grid to respond digitally to our quickly changing electric demand. Which means? Amongst other things, when we have an excess of renewable energy rather than just shutting down those wind turbines you’ll get low cost/no cost energy so for instance you can run your heat pump and heat your house (if your heat pump is Smart Grid ready) Remember Economy 7? The idea was to encourage you to use energy when demand on the grid was typically low and conversely reduce demand on the grid when demand was high. Similar concept – a dynamic tariff with energy prices going up and down with supply and demand. A heat pump is one of the best uses of this low cost energy as heat can be stored in the fabric of the building and hot water. It’s also multiplied by the efficiency of the heat pump