coming up on this week's news electrical contractors should connect electric cars to power their customers homes says the UK government Lester authorities warn that there's a rogue electrician operating in the city and what's causing the mysterious electrical hum in Omar welcome to electrical news weekly in association with solar trade sales your easy One-Stop shop for all things solar whether you're listening in the van on site or down at the wholesale counter I'm Joy Robinson and I've been thr
ough the best of the electrical industry news to save you the trouble and this week's challenge word competition is supported by the good people at compo the complete solution for Ev charge Point installers if you think you've spotted the two words that I've been challenged to slip into this week's show comment with them below for the chance to win a prize the UK government wants the British home powered by the electric car sitting in the driveway it's announced its backing for so-called vehicle
to home or v2h charging and it's putting its money where its mouth is the department for energy security and Net Zero is awarding four new trial projects a share of 4.8 Mill million pounds to develop and implement the technology using two-way charging households could fuel their cars when electricity costs are low and draw power back from them at peak times when prices are higher this method would lead to hundreds of pounds in savings say officials however currently only a few electric cars are
capable of bidirectional charging these include the Nissan Leaf the Volkswagen ID buzz and the Hyundai ionic 5 and six Renault says the electric Renault 5 which launches in the UK next year will also feature a vehicle to grid technology skills Minister Amanda Solway said the prospect of families using EVS to power their homes was incredibly exciting speaking of EV charging as part of our occasional feature meet the sponsor we'd like to introduce you to Hydra EVC established in 2022 with a commi
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storms in Queensland led to extensive blackouts this caused a major headache for Mom Christy Holmes whose 11-year-old son Levi needs a kidney dialysis machine to stay alive quick thinking homes remembered the emergency power system on her byd AT3 Electric car which she promptly connected to the dialysis machine this saved the family a long and dangerous emergency Dash to Brisbane during the storm homes says now she's been able to save her son she doesn't think she'll ever go back to a petrol ca
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you'd like to know more about it then click the link in the show notes now you might be installing or connecting to one of these charge points sooner than you think the government is providing 70 million pound to help the installation of Rapid charges at 10 Motorway service stations transport secretary Mark Harper says he wants to install six or more rapid or Ultra rapid charges at every Motorway service area in England currently only four in 10 meet this criteria the money will go towards the
cost of upgrading the electricity grid so the sufficient capacity for the plug-in points the government grants come as the number of pure battery electric vehicles on UK roads hit the 1 million Mark helping to drive that growth is tough rules on car makers they're under a legal obligation to sell a growing percentage of EVS each year if they don't they're required to pay the government £5,000 per polluting vehicle sold above the limits in other news Leicester city council has announced that it h
as identified a rogue electrician who's operating in the town the person has created a flurry of what the local Authority terms unsatisfactory electrical certificates for rented homes the discovery follows sweeping inspections of City Homes registered under the new Council licensing scheme the local Authority says that their inspectors raise safety concerns at more than 85% of the registered properties they visited the council introduced its new landlord licensing scheme in 2022 along with elect
rical safety issues other common concerns were staircases without handrails and the risk of falling out of Windows in in product news this week a shock survey has revealed the extent of lighting equipment available online which doesn't comply with the standards manufacturers trade body lighting Europe sent a mystery shopper to establish how much non-compliant lighting is sold through online marketplaces into European and UK markets the organization discovered that no less than 95% of products it
purchased failed to comply with relevant product standards it says its survey demonstrates that non-compliant lighting Products are easily accessible online these excruciating adults have prompted the organization to call for a major Crackdown on Shady lights entering the country still on lighting illumination Overlord Phillips has introduced an LED version of the traditional high-press sodium lamp it has a record-breaking efficiency of 210 lumens per watt that's twice what sodium can achieve t
he Philips Master LED sunt Ultra efficient A-Class lamps have a similar look feel and light distribution to their conventional equivalent they can be retrofitted straight into existing sunti fittings without any need to disconnect or replace the ballast and finally what's causing the Omar hum a low frequency noise with a similar frequency to alternating current has been baffling residents of the northern Irish town since last September the locals describe it as a continuous buzz and they say tha
t once it's been heard it cannot be unheard some speculate that it's caused by the old school sodium street lights that illuminate the town others suggest that in recent storms water has got into Transformers resulting in the sound but Pub manager Gerard Casey says the hum is a myth a figment of people imaginations audio experts say the problem in locating the source of the noise is that it's very difficult to detect where a low frequency such as a Mains home is coming from the investigation con
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I suspect that the government charge of car manufacturer's to force them to sell EV's will go the same way as the proposed "boiler tax". If Jo Public isn't ready/willing to buy these in the quantity envisaged by the government, those manufacturer's will just hike their prices to recover the cost of the fines (and in turn force the government to U Turn).
I had VTG 3 years ago. Nice idea but the first unit was always faulty. the secound unit then pushed our voltage up so high it damaged loads of equipment in our house. Nice idea but a long way to go yet. ( we ripped the final unit out last year)
Hmmm. Now where can I work and get free charging/electricity whilst on a job site?
As an IDBuzz owner I was not aware that I could do V2H. As far as I am aware VW are some way off from implementing this feature.
Be good when V2H (and V2G) becomes widely available.
One of my mates bought a EV it was 3 years old at the time . He kept it for 3 years . During that time he was telling everyone it’s fantastic. Even telling me I should get one . He got quite agitated if I said anything even slightly negative about if . All the time he carried on praising it up. Roll on after 3 years he finally said he was wrong. It was a complete waste of money. It was a good car but he spent half his life changing it. That’s if he could find a charger working . Ripped of for servicing . (Hang on it’s a EV ) it had heated seats but couldn’t use them to you paid extra for a app . The list goes on. When he sold it he lost thousands. Even he said he was a typical EV owner . They will never admit they are wrong and have wasted their money. He now drives a petrol car and even his local garage can repair it . Now all those EV people will love the idea of their car powering their home. They don’t care if it shortens the life of the battery . Almost certainly invalidating the battery warranty
The Omagh hum has been reported before. A 30 hz hum was recorded by Brent , London,experts, unable to locate the source. Ask who hears it and you'll be surprised how widespread the problem is.
Hi eFiXX Have you seen or heard of The Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 changes. Come into effect 1st Mar 2024 it affects rental dwelling in Scotland? A valid EICR does not mean the dwelling is compliant as it may not have an 30mA RCD present. Might be worthy of a new story.
The selected words of the week are crackdown and overlord . And as always thank you very much. It's really fun to see the electricity news, I appreciate it very much.
Putting aside the perennial issue of increasing the number of charge/discharge cycles during the expected life of the EV battery, possibly shortening its useful life, V2H is a potentially very helpful way of reducing peak demand on the local network and the amount of generation required. The move from V2H to V2G is where some additional problems emerge, principally localised voltage rise. Like V2H, a lot of commentators regard V2G as a largely altruistic way of "helping out the grid", even with the not unreasonable expectation that money changes hands to compensate the owner of the V. Thing is, if compensation or incentives encourage EV owners/operators to export energy from EV batteries, or other sources of energy, problems with the network voltage getting too high are a real possibility in many locations. Much depends on the number of exporting 'prosumers' and the network topography but I sense that such mere 'details' will be glossed over by the car sales executive in much the same way that potential EV customers may be led to believe that they can plug in and charge as much as they want, whenever they want.
V2G sounds like a good idea but the politicians pushing it need to see for themselves if they can make it financially viable I've thought about it a lot and it doesn't make sense. Better to simply buy a dedicated home battery system and a cheaper EV that's what I've done and am already benefitting and I don't need to wait for the technology and legislation to catch up
Is powering the home from the car not going to lead to a reduction in service of the car battery and therefore requiring them to be replaced sooner. What’s the stance on recycling EV batteries at present?
I still don't think our electricity network will be up to the increased load of EV's electric cooking, electric hot water and Heat Pumps for heating. My rural road is powered from a 100KVa 11kv / 415v Transformer (pole mounted) and it feeds twelve properties. (all single phase except one). A 100KVa transformer has a secondary current of 133 Amps per phase so if the load over the three phases is a perfect balance that is 3x133A = 399A and with twelve homes 399/12=33.3 Amps per property (About 7.6Kw continuous per property). The overhead cables from the transformer are 70mm. So it all works fine at the moment and I know gadgets exist to stop a property drawing more than the service cut-out fuse rating (60Amp in my case). I don't think you can pole mount a 500KVa transformer so along with the cost of that some kind of building would be required. Assuming my maths are correct, who will pay for all these upgrades and are the "powers" that be just pretending it is not a multi trillion pound country wide issue.
You can buy a stand alone device which uses Chadmo connection to vehicles which will give you access to a vehicle battery and return to home. Trouble is its 3k. There are some ev chargers that will hit the market but again in the region of 3K. . And like another person stated if an issue arrives and damages your car good by warranty. These cars can be terigated and it will show up on diagnostics. I have had my 62kw Nissan now for just under 3 years. Fantastic to drive. BUT Long tips its hard work. We did a weekend away last year 4.5 hours each way total weekend time to charge the car for our weekend break was 5 hours 40 minutes. So add this to 9 hours. Misses not impressed. And it cost us more as each stop warranted coffee and more food at high costs. So my advise is keep a diesel as the ev is grand around town. For those who don't have one and want one , understand that they take a good 7 hours to charge at home. From 28% to 100%.
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Thats great you only get so many charges on these EV batteries so £10000 battery change every few years sounds good
Words are, Excruciating, and Molded.
This method of powering your home with your EV could lead to "hundereds of £ in savings". Now I'm definately not an expert in this field so this is a genuine question of wouldn't this method also vastly increase the charging cycles on your extremely expensive EV battery, which in turn would reduce it's lifespan? If so has this been included in working out these predicted "savings" 🤔
One caution - I assume that the extra charge/discharge cycles on the car battery might shorten its lifespan. In due course, I would like to see a detailed cost/benefit breakdown of this idea.
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