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Hi BC /Quick hijack Lookup the Western Power technical requirements for connecting said generation device/s - they have to worry about such things as their linesmen getting a shock if your generator is on when the network is meant to be dead... so they have published chapter and verse on...

I would if I could! Problem is they don't exist... they haven't even been designed! Gotta love a company that has *nothing* as a product! The Seinfeld company? :p A bit like cheap solar in that respect - an oxymoron at present. Conventional solar panels can never become cost competitive...

Hi Y-man Your time period is approximately correct for nuclear due to the need for complete control over what is happening in the reactor - sudden changes there are very undesirable! :eek: Although you can always trip a unit to turn it off quick - getting it back online again under...

It's all to do with the marginal cost of supplying power at those times. Off peak periods can be supplied by coal power stations = expensive to build but cheap to run so have to run all the time. Peak periods requires the installation of new gas power stations = cheaper to build but expensive...