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<blockquote data-quote="bladerunnerpv" data-source="post: 547183" data-attributes="member: 35385"><p>A curve ball to to bear in mind perhaps</p><p></p><p>It's possible to find, for ukpowernetworks at least, information on your local grid primary substation and the substation loading and headroom and remaining headroom predictions thereof.</p><p></p><p>In my area it's indicating demand is increasing and excess demand, i.e. zero headroom in capacity, will be reached by 2031.</p><p>Nearby town 10miles up the road is between 5% overload and 5% headroom <em>now</em></p><p></p><p>Projection depends on what growth factors they're taking into account, e.g. new housing planned, EV usage growth, industry demand, more extreme weather variation, etc etc, and the assumptions being made of course.</p><p></p><p>Point is that the grid is gradually heading towards insufficient available capacity vs the demand, I would presume supply may also become less reliable as headroom reduces.</p><p></p><p>Battery storage systems in the home will help with load balancing, a solar component will help even more presumably and potentially give you supply when the grid can't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bladerunnerpv, post: 547183, member: 35385"] A curve ball to to bear in mind perhaps It's possible to find, for ukpowernetworks at least, information on your local grid primary substation and the substation loading and headroom and remaining headroom predictions thereof. In my area it's indicating demand is increasing and excess demand, i.e. zero headroom in capacity, will be reached by 2031. Nearby town 10miles up the road is between 5% overload and 5% headroom [I]now[/I] Projection depends on what growth factors they're taking into account, e.g. new housing planned, EV usage growth, industry demand, more extreme weather variation, etc etc, and the assumptions being made of course. Point is that the grid is gradually heading towards insufficient available capacity vs the demand, I would presume supply may also become less reliable as headroom reduces. Battery storage systems in the home will help with load balancing, a solar component will help even more presumably and potentially give you supply when the grid can't. [/QUOTE]
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