Just thought I would remind people it's April Fools day today.
So ignore anything said and written today, it is likely to be nonsense, so don't trust anyone!!
(Basically it's just like any other day!)
Any decent stories about April fools jokes on apprentices?
We had an apprentice who was...
Good morning,
I am struggling to answer the question I am being asked daily. Once the 1st April deadline for the EICR reports to be completed what happens, Basically we have no appointments left now to complete them and many other electricians locally are also fully booked out so where does...
I posted back in April about a wierd starting issue but unfortunately got no replies and the issue is still ongoing and driving me nuts !
I have a 2011 Ford Ka 1.3 tdci. The car starts first turn of the key but the battery light stays on and the electric power steering doesnt click into action...
Had emails over night confirming that OLEV are reducing the OLEV grants from £500 down to £350 for installs carried out from 1st APril 2020 onwards.
If you carry out EV installations under the home charge or workplace grant schemes then you may need to go back to your customers with new...
I have alluded to this in previous threads. The commercial site I work on has asked me what I think the total KVA for the site is. Having looked at various ways of viewing this I am getting lost with it. So if I just say
kVA = ( V*A*1.73)/1000 and assume supply is 400V and take the main incomer...
If your in the market for a new vehicle look carefully as the car tax bands are changing in April. (Don't think any new standard cars built now have high tax brackets and most are free so the treasury cannot cope) March is expected to be the busiest car buying month this year.
See
New 2017 road...
The government published their response to the RHI consultation today, and generally its good news for small systems
ASHP - capped at 20,000 kWh gross tariff to rise to 10.02p/kWh
GSHP - capped at 30,000 kWh gross tariff to rise to 19.55p/kWh
Biomass - capped at 25,000 kWh gross tariff to rise...
The Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) will be undergoing a phone system upgrade between Wednesday, 6th April and Friday, 8th April.
Read the full news article
Received today:
Feed-in Tariff rates are index linked and on 1st April 2016 relevant tariffs will be adjusted as follows:
Installations with an eligibility date before 1st January 2016
Generation and export tariffs will be increased by 1.2%.
Installations with an eligibility date on or after...
Following on from the completion of Pennychew's competition I thought it may help to provide some more feedback on the question just to help clarify for those still feeling short on information.
I will try and split the question and answer over multiple posts so as to keep them separate.
So...
Question time!
I asked Richard Burns if he would like to set the question for me and this is what we have agreed on....
This is intended to be a fairly simple question that should be answerable by anyone at any level of training. Starting Trainees can ask for the clue to help direct your...
OFGEM have published the PV FiT tariffs that will apply from 1st April.
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/92754/fitpvtarifftablefor1april2015.pdf
The new top rate is 13.39p and export 4.85p.
They have been published on the Walled Garden, so your centre should be able to give you your results. I passed mine.
Its a good job really, seeing as i teach it, imagine the red face if i had failed it.:hanged:
Cheers..........Howard
There's an important quirk in the Feed In Tariff scheme rules that I'm not sure everyone is aware of, but is potentially pretty important...
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Basically all installations that registered on or before December 31st 2013 receiving an inflation linked increase in the Feed-In Tariff rate they...
Hi All,
Just sat the 2394 written exam tonight. I thought I done ok but there were a few parts I was left wondering with the wording of the questions. Section A was the tricky part for me this time. Section B normally the tricky section was actually ok.
The only part I got out the room was...
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