I don't think it's 3 pin Nick not been near it really but I think figure of 8?
Perhaps @Nottm_S2 can take a pic, my 20yo Canon SLR can't easily get down there let alone take decent pics.

Yes re trigger it. When I read of our grid depending on inter feeds for backup power to overcome problems I think this could all go tits at the same time very easily

 

No if you read that doc re the May 2019 blackout not only did renewables trigger it but they think there was an unreported loss of capacity due to ... renewables. The troubles are exascerbated by millions of little power suppliers like me with my PV and even some quite large wind turbines 'embedded' in the network not monitored.

All it is going to take as Nick says is a really proper cold winter spell and the shit will hit the proverbial. Man made global warming anyone?

If I didn't know better I would suspect Putin of channelling the Siberian cold stream our way.

I can see him dancing around in an icy pool cheering our plight with his cock shrivelled up to nothing. I do get these wild dreams

 

I thought there was a 240VAC 3-pin outlet next to the USB on the dash?

 

You know, you might just be right, and it’s at least nice to have someone to blame.

 

There is, down near Rog's feet
Has a flip cover, maybe tricked him
You boys are making me wanna buy a Genny..haha

 

Yes - the biggest problem with Unreliables is maintaining grid frequency when they fail to contribute - aside from their negative EORI overall; you cannot make concrete & ally with a windmill.

If the grid load is excessive, alternators slow down and if the freq. drops much below 50 Hz the grid trips in order not to damage electrical equipment everywhere. Tripping then goes viral.

And doing a hard restart on a massively interconnected grid is a difficult task.

In order to maintain stability, ze Chermans have to crank up their old brown coal-fired stations, since the greentards made them close all the clean nuclear base load stations.

 

No one so far has mentioned the finite resources of the planet ! In the form of fossil fuels the use of which is exacerbated by the rise in world population. One day it will run out.

Tree huggers need to get their heads around the alternatives and I don’t mean wind and sun , not enough going into totally predicable tide for a start and small scale local hydro, and the Nuclear option to at least fill the gaps.

it just might mean we have to reverse a bit , don’t always expect the kettle to work every time !

I wonder what oil consumption has been like in the last year compared with previous years , one issue might be the reduction in use of buses and trains meaning reduction in car usage has not been so prounoced despite loads home working.

Grid infra structure is a problem to if we all start plugging cars in Willy nilly. Spark I know said the other day that the DNOs are already getting twitchy about up rating supplies , I want mine up from 60amp to either 80 or 100amp which I will ask for , the incoming single core armoured is sized for 100amp just hope they don’t say no! Sure they won’t at the moment , but if every one on this substation starts increasing consumption it’s likely to blow up, it’s quite old and doubt sized for these sorts of increases for cars and heating via heat pumps ! What they all are hoping to hang their hats on is diversity factors and calcs.

 

Yes they think clever algorithms and contracts will keep the blackout wolf from the door. Meanwhile this small scale local hydro is a dam' fine idea - the hills are alive etc

The other solution is to rely on interconnect supply from other countries. The astute amongst us will have already spotted that this approach won't work if we all suffer the same icy blast ... Meanwhile Germany, the biggest user of unrelirenewables, is planning a major cull of traditional coal and nuclear generation soon.

@Nottm_S2 Cue boom time for little Honda fossil fuel powered generators

 

Most folk won't need chargers, I certainly don'tif AVG mileage is 12k that is maybe 4,000kw a year
Our house consumes about 9k KW I think, so it's a huge uplift
uptake won't be gradual either.. I think we need to get on with smart tariffs to encourage off peak charging. Even at c3kw you can add a lot of juice say 2200-0600.. 24kw in fact which should get you at least 72 miles added
it need not be an issue but as we've seen recently we are a bit of a broken Island


anyway, myself and Rog have 35 and 45kw of spare power in the event of network collapse. There was a bloke on the e group powering his (Sparky's cardiac) office today

 

The e feels like an SUV next to the SC car.. interestingly that has a range of c145 miles and whilst quicker to fill up it seems to be better in winter because you can't really hit it.. 120-130 in summer
the difference being the latter cost £53 to fill up, the former £5