A team chemists has created a battery that stores energy in a biologically derived unit, paving the way for cheaper consumer electronics that are easier on the environment.The battery is similar to many commercially-available high-energy lithium-ion batteries with one important difference. It...
I'm not an electrician, but I am looking for some advise on the best way to drain a shielded CAT6A ethernet network in a UK house built in 1989.
I need to drain the RF energy at one end. I have finished installing in excess of 500m of CAT6A and every cable save for one goes to two CAT6A patch...
Hi, I am a new female student of Domestic Electrical Installer course.
I wonder how I can describe Power and Energy the best way. My two guess are that in my words, Power is the action that happens when the voltage drives the electric current between two points in a circuit, and the Energy...
Something that came to my attention recently was an MCB with an efficiency rating and a predicted KWh decade energy loss figure for the OCPD itself. Do the UK consumer units ever come with efficiency ratings?
I guessed this was in response to some new EU or US regs regarding supply or...
HelloI am writing from Chile with a question about PV, our company normally installs modules in houses, but we are starting with buildings, there is a Policy here called "net billing", that is we can sell the PV energy surpluses to the grid, but at a smaller price than the grid sell the energy...
Utility Week ? WPD backs battery storage
RES announces £1 million UK energy storage project
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Didn't know this existed, pre registration for schools to help keep the high rate tariff. Or has this been dissolved and no longer valid. I have a school to finish and we wont make it in time for the 14th January. Any ideas
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Hello all I have just purchased a 1970 Bungalow which is directly behind the main area sub station owned by Uk Energy Networks. My property has a 3phase head old brown bakerlite one I called up Uk energy networks who confirm that the property is indeed serviced by a 3 phase supply. I want the...
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Just wondering if anyone can reccomend a light for under the stairs cupboards. Looking to install one in my house for part of my assesment from consumer unit and was thinking of using a batten holder, but just think it would look bad, maybe a bulkhead? If anyone can help with a suitable...
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I am looking at adding battery back up to my system, however i dont quite understand how if the energy generated from the panels is being used to charge the battery, how then does that unit register on the generation meter? The way i see it, is that it wont and therefore id...
The Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) is calling on the newly elected Government to prioritise three key issues that affect engineering contractors and many other UK businesses and the wider economy
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Anyone had dealing with these? We have just had a surveyor round who claims that our house was not built with cavity wall insulation when it should have been. The house was built in 1990. The surveyor explained that they would drill four holes to ascertain if there is any insulation within the...
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