On May 9, 11:59*am, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, May 9, 2013 11:25:51 AM UTC+1, wrote:
TNP wrote:

But the real issue is how much load you could take off the grid anyway.

And as you will;l realise its at best 10% if that, and then only for a

few hours max.

I doubt that.

Reduction to: * * *5mins * 4hours

------------- * * *----- * ------

Water heating * * *0 * * * 50%

Space heating * * *0 * * * 50-66%

Stored heating * * 0 * * * 50%

kettle * * * * * * 50% * * -

fridge * * * * * * 0 * * * -

washing machine * *80% * * 50%

Oven * * * * * * * 50% * * 80-100%

Lighting * - * * * -

Sml appliances * * - * * * -

PCs * * * * * * * *- * * * -

TVs, stereos * * * - * * * -

Shower * * * * * * - * * * -

One could knock 50% off peak demand if wanted.

But peak demand is during the day, from indusrty that's why they brought in economy 7, to use the 'night electricity'
I doubt you could really just cut off industry by 50% without causing some serious issues.
Looking at the daily demand we find that over the weekends we use less generlally speaking.

If you look at yearly demand there's not that much difernce between the seasons the most noticable drop is during the christmas break.









SO it is easy to see that smart grids do feck all to actually cope with

renewable intermittentcy, in exactly the same way that renewable energy

does feck all to reduce carbon emissions.

They both represent solutions to the problem of appearing to Do

Something About Climate change whilst making a ****ing big profit and

not actually doing anything at all. All they have to do is convince an

unsophisticated electorate with no real idea about how anything works,

with a plausible narrative that conforms to their belief systems A

country full of harrys, in fact.

Its pure political fraud. But then, what isn't?

The point of demand management is to enable less total generating capacity to be installed, and less grid capacity. Its about cost saving.

NT

PV panels help meet day time peak demand.
We just need lots more.