Dual phase upgrade to 3 phase

[pc1966]

Just to add that I was lending a hand to our landlord's sparky recently and he mentioned a few of the farms/related places he deals with have been running generator as cheaper than grid electric. Bonkers I know, but these are strange times

 

[nicebutdim]

Just to add that I was lending a hand to our landlord's sparky recently and he mentioned a few of the farms/related places he deals with have been running generator as cheaper than grid electric. Bonkers I know, but these are strange times

Provided the power is generated for agricultural purposes, they can still (legally) use rebated (red) diesel, otherwise I don't imagine they'd make any saving.

 

[pc1966]

Provided the power is generated for agricultural purposes, they can still (legally) use rebated (red) diesel, otherwise I don't imagine they'd make any saving.

In these cases that would be true.

More generally I don't know as I don't think many folks make use of co-generation (using waste heat for warming the place). Typically electricity is about 40% of the fuel, and waste heat the rest, but if you can recover a lot of that for powering radiators, dryers, etc, then you can get close to 80% overall and that is obviously a BIG improvement.

 

[nicebutdim]

A large site I work on will regularly make use of large generator sets, but due to the cost of diesel (the regular stuff), they're generally quite keen on site supplies being up and running ASAP.