You go Everything Electric Show, love these films and so interested in what is coming out soon. Wish people would get more behind it and see what a difference it is making
We've had V2H for three months and it's dropped our average electricity cost by 22% just by allowing us to use cheap off-peak electricity during the day and it hasn't even been sunny enough to generate a significant amount of solar yet. Combined with our energy saving efforts (we've dropped our electricity consumption by 25% and our gas consumption by 51% since 2021). The icing on the cake is that the EV we've owned for 4½ years (second hand) has paid for its purchase price in fuel savings alone compared to the car it replaced. So it's the gift that keeps on giving.
Excellent and hopeful preview of the year ahead. I would love to see V2G take off, as well as a massive up-tick in grid-level renewable energy storage. Thanks, Imogen (and team).
I'm hoping to see more progress in cleaning up of shipping and aircraft. Love to see a mandate that all cruise ships and cargo ships that docked in UK ports have to be plug into the grid. But personally I'm looking forward to seeing how much electricity my heat pump tumble dryer saves me.
Great to hear a mention of passivhaus and lower impact, biobased construction materials. Passivhaus is going through the process of being adopted as a standard for all new residential buildings in Scotland, so that's very exciting. There's also a draft of new building regulations that would put a target on embodied carbon in buildings, which would be the first time this is captured in the regulations. Hopefully this will encourage more use of materials like timber, straw, hemp and cellulose. Keep up the great work! Oh and if you'd like to visit a zero bills, full electric passivhaus made of timber and straw let me know :)
I'd like to see more on road chargers for overnight cheap chargers for those of us living in flats with no ability to make our landlords install car charges. Similarly companies stepping forward to help landlords invest in such things with reasonable payback periods, and also solar panels.
Happy New Year, Imogen. That was a great summary of the positive developments to look forward to in 2024. Thanks also to your production team - great video style. 👏👏
Great start to the year, Imogen. Very positive presentation of all that is possible if we can together eliminate the negative, misinformation and the constant barrage of political hypocrisy! It’s a fact that pessimism is for lightweights 😄
2 things: 1. I love that the tiny CGI windmills in the shelf properly resized as the camera zoomed in. 2. I'm not a fan of the second camera if the second camera does not get eye contact. I much prefer when the presenter moves around in the frame once every few sentences (see supercarlinbrothers videos for a good example). This breaks the visual monotony, allows the presenter to have smaller takes and doesn't look as awkward because the presenter is always looking at the camera.
I have hybrid off-grid solar inverters, but instead of connecting in grid power for backup I have a line from my BYD’s Seal’s V2L. (Videos on my EcoHouseThailand RUclips channel) I’ve continued paying $1/month to rent a meter from my electricity provider in the vain hope that I might one day be able to feed power back to the grid, even if that meant buying an on-grid inverter to do it. However, I think the time has come to give up on that idea and ask my electricity provider to take their meter back as I’ve had my meter replaced 5 times over the last 6 years as they thought it was broken!
Great to see improved air source pumps and upgraded solar. We have been working on upgrades to our house for many years to spread the costs. (We are pensioners so need to budget very carefully and have had to make choices. Holidays or solar panels etc ) Our biggest issue has been lack of professional support and interest from suppliers and installers to actually do the work we want done. For example we only found one company who were willing to fit solar and they took from July 22 to March 23 to actually achieve switch on. We want an air to air heat pump but cannot find any company interested in quoting on one ( a local company did visit but won't answer my calls now ) I appreciate it's relatively new technology in this country but we had a solar hot water system installed in our house when we lived in Australia in the 70's . A centre where you can pick up the phone and talk to an engineer eould be great ( as per the Fully Charged show we attended last year - excellent, do go ) Your thoughts everyone?
So true, unless of course you are eligible for an ECO4 funding when you will get a plethora of dodgy companies crawling out the woodwork offering to help, most of whom will disappear as soon as there is a problem. What I would like is the emergence of a holistic consultant who could look at an entire house and advise what the most efficient order of upgrades would be and was completely independent of any brand/installer and could advise at each stage on what size and brand to install next
@@justinstephenson9360 hi Justin. Thanks for your response and agree entirely with your analysis. Good independent professional guidance for each individual property. Not a government clone or a slick salesman but a properly trained and qualified assessor who has the best interests of the home owner as his priority. The £7500 grant , whilst handy for the well off , does nothing to help everybody....we all need good advice as to what each and everyone of us can do to improve the efficiency of our homes within the owners budget. I could afford a heat pump but the grant I could get is unfair. That money could be better spent helping more people than just me.( A good survey should cost maybe £300 ? ) I will wait and see who does come out the woodwork! Best regards.
Very important you use an experienced installer with a track record of successful installations. Otherwise you wind up with the problem of it being more expensive than a gas boiler. It's a no brainier if you are not on mains gas.
@@Bawdale hmmm, well his home belongs to a housing association, so i should imagine they use people who know what they are doing. I hope my landlord doesn't decide to fit them as the rent will surely rise, so I'll be worse off, same with solar.
You guys in UK should take something like build you own Greenhouses and warm it with compose pile to use fro heat then in Spring time use for new soil for new year! You can look that very easily and in these times might help others!
Really nice overview. Thanks for such a positive, upbeat view. Cost is, I’m sure, still the biggest barrier to change. I hope that the next Uk government finally sees the need to stop supporting fossil fuels and really start supporting renewables instead.
I could listen to Imogen all day, I don’t know if she memorised that script or was reading an auto-cue, but either way she is such a listenable-to presenter! Keep up the great work Imogen! 🤩 And indeed 2024 should be a very exciting year! 😎
What I want in 2024 in the UK is the ability to go to ONE provider get a survey done on my property and find out what my property needs or wants. There are so many different options and a barrage of conflicting information. and of course the solor guy will recommend solar. Wind guy recommend wind Heat punm guy recommend heat pumps Window guy ... NEW WINDOWS! I want a true netural do a report and see what works for MY HOUSE.
I know. This really bothers me. I just want someone to come in and tell me what needs doing to get the house up to B of C energy rating with data etc. but I can't find anyone to do it!
In British Columbia (Canada), we have mild temperatures and inexpensive electricity, so heat pumps are already really mainstream here! But we’re not a terribly sunny place, so solar is still niche in these parts.
Solar makes little sense in BC since it is powered by hydro except for a few remote communities. You are actually increasing the carbon footprint if you use solar in the lower mainland. It is also does not make financial sense since electricity is so cheap. You probably won't get a payback before the lifespan of the panels and batteries.
@@yodaiam1000 BC needs to greatly increase its electrical power supply to power electric cars and to replace natural gas (which is used for 50% of home heating). Building massive dams is very expensive and has long lead time, so there is a place for solar (and wind). After all, if the UK can use solar to generate significant amounts of electricity, then so can British Columbia.
@@simhedgesrex7097 The UK is very different from BC. BC already has a massive hydro project underway at site C. BC has so much power that it currently exports it and will be exporting more which is a good thing to minimize the carbon production. Right now, there is no need for solar and wind unless you are in an isolated community that is not supplied by the dams. That can change in the future but there is no current justification to add solar panels to a roof in the lower mainland. The solar panels have a carbon footprint and the payback period is too long to justify them. Of course it can be done, it just doesn't make sense. I would wait until there is more of a justification. It is better to use those panels in places like California or areas with a high percentage of FF generation.
@@yodaiam1000 Site C is large at 1.1GB, but will increase BC's hydro capacity by about 7%. You are absolutely correct that right now there is no need for more generation capacity, but that "that can change in the future". And "the future" is exactly what I was talking about. As electricity demand in BC significantly increases as Natural Gas is phased out, and may 50% more electricity is needed, then there will be little time to produce more massive dam projects to meet the need. And, of course, in the meantime every kWh that BC produces from solar is a kWh that can be sold over the border to the USA at a profit. When natural gas usage ramps down in BC, what are you proposing should replace it?
@@simhedgesrex7097 It is more responsible to to use the electricity within BC as power needs increase. You have transmission loses so it is better to lower the carbon footprint overall for the places outside of BC to get solar panels. As stated, we can add solar panels and wind in the future if we need them but right now, it is better to reduce the carbon footprint by utilizing solar panels in other locations. If you look at the municipal building bylaws, it is required in some municipalities to add conduit for future panels. No one is reckless ignoring future demands but it will be a while before it makes sense to add PV cells in most of BC.
Loved this podcast style video, you are every bit as good as Robert's ‐ not as waffle filled either (actually sometimes I love his waffle style of humour but when I want a quick round up you are the best). See you in Australia. P.S. when are you coming to New Zealand?
Super insulated home design has been around for years, decades even but UK house builders have no interest in using such designs because it increases the cost. Without legislation requiring them to change their ways you will be producing videos for years talking about super insulated homes being the future but never the present
Yup - the reason the UK has the worst-insulated homes in the EU has nothing to do with 'builder incompetence', and everything to do with the lack of regulation requiring them to build to a higher standard. Likewise, imo building regs. should be *requiring* all new homes be electrified (no more new-builds with gas already locked in - replacing existing gas is *far* more expensive than building electric in the first place), ditto new builds should have solar on the roof (again, fitment at construction time is cheaper than fitting after), and Wiring installed for home storage, EV charger, and similar (note: only the wiring, as these can be fitted afterwards at little extra cost, if the wiring is in place).
@@logicalChimp All good points. And we did, sort of, have those regulations there used to be a legal requirement that from 2016 all new builds had to be Code 6 (essentially carbon neutral) compliant. That was repealed by the government following a long lobbying campaign by house builders.
@@justinstephenson9360houses built up until 2025 are still allowed gas boilers, but not after that. But there is a loophole. If you build the foundations that counts as construction in progress and you can still have a gas connection even if the house isn't finished for a few more years.
@@adrianthoroughgood1191 that is interesting, so I am guessing that the UK house building industry will start huge numbers of homes in late 2024 by building foundations, then mothball the sites to ensure they have enough supply to build the "normal" way for another few years
Thank you for sharing how we can use this amazing energy efficiency technology to become prosumers e.g. consumers that produce energy too, and sometimes even a bit more than the
What about heat recovery from sewage? Once heat is recovered it can be pumped back to homes and used in heat pumps to amplify the heat. Minimal to no infustructure investent required.
It’s a distraction. If V2G solved a problem (fewer poles and wires, better electricity pricing, grid reliability, disaster resilience) each jurisdiction would mandate it
I managed to buy a V2G charger a few months ago. It's been everything it's hyped to be and more. I'm excited to see what people will do with smart home integrations and V2G chargers.
Very good. Is it possible to have an explainer on how our energy tariffs are arrived at? With renewables making up a big proportion of our electricity, why are my gas tariffs only one fifth of my daytime electricity tariff?
In summary form: the market energy price is set by the most expensive generation source that is actively providing power (currently nat.gas. iirc)... the idea being that because 'cheaper' forms of generation therefor make massive profits, it would be an incentive for companies to switch off their 'expensive' generation and build cheaper generation... Alas, companies have - apparently - decided they'll just bake their profit margin into their generation prices, and keep running the inefficient / expensive generators :/
I can see that they need to keep these expensive generators going because of the intermittent nature of the renwables, but this still doesn't explain why my gas is 7.4p /kWh but my electric day tariff is 38.63p/kWh. The modern combined cycle gas generators are almost 60% efficient and obviously they must pay much less than the 7.4p/kWh for their gas than I do, so allowing for this shouldn't the electricity from CCGT be much lower - not 5 times more than gas?
@@markkunes9711 Bear in mind that the 'generation price' includes the (ammortised) cost of building the gas generator, the ongoing maintenance of the gas generator, the profit-margin for running the gas generator, and other factors - not just the nat.gas fuel source. It likely also includes the cost of the chimney scrubbers (to reduce pollution), and all the corporate costs associated with monitoring, reporting, and other legal requirements compliance, etc.
It is low cost stuff for the home. Every home should have it all by the end of the year. Obviously if you don't have a balcony, you can't have the balcony solar panels, but for the rest there is no excuse.
@@robinhood4640 The balcony solar systems can also come with a ground or wall mounting kit, I am keeping my eyes on this as a way of adding to my roof solar which loses the sun as it moves into the evening. The panels are usually sending their energy to a portable battery instead of into the grid.
unfortunately we cant donate power to our neighbors. We sell it to someone for 1 - 8c and then they sell it to them for 30 - 56c. I wanted to connect a battery at my neighbors with my solar but was told it was illegal
I do hope that now you have teased us with all these new things, that there are actually going to be shows on them? The trouble is, do you wait for the best next thing, (always another around the corner), or commit now, and see something better a year later and wish you had waited? Trouble is, by waiting, you are also loosing out :-{ As always, 20:20 hindsight before the event is a must have !!!
The 'buy now, or wait for next gen' has been an issue for tech/ computing for decades... and the general rule that works there should work here too: work out what you *need* (rather than 'want'), and then buy as soon as a suitable product hits a price you can afford... there will *always* be something 'better' coming along later, but the more time you spend waiting for 'perfect', the more time you spend paying for your current 'crap' :p
@@logicalChimp Nicely put 🙂 We jumped into Solar PV in 2011. Best investment we ever made! More added in 2018 + a Powerwall, but it is the FiT on the first lot that is still bringing in the biggest return. The other great truth: "You Snooze, You LOOSE!" COMES TO MIND.
Change the politicians in power to those who aren't tied to vested interests ... if that is at all possible. They did it in Australia but I fear here in Canada we may be setting up to move in the wrong direction politically vis a vis Clean Energy and the reducing of fossil fuel subsidies and burning.
I've got a diesel heater and burn anything stove to keep me warm, electric is way too expensive as is solar and heat pumps, net zero is something I'll never achieve, in fact i produce a lot more pollution these days than i ever have! Oh well, we live our lives as best we can!
I have a great roof facing south but at my age,72, could I see a return on solar and battery storage? When I can’t even get a smart meter for my EV fitted, so I can take advantage of cheaper power, because there is no WAN. The SMWAN still uses the 2/3G network and that has always been bad were I live - You would think I live in the middle the mores but no I live in the Sth of Epsom next to Ashtead common! 😂 Never mind it should be better soon - Look forward to seeing you guys at the end of March.
All sounds great provided existing green tech isn’t being binned just to have the newest, shiny thing - let existing stuff live out its life provided it’s not contributing to the problem…
This sounds so good. However, I went to Mexico and I felt like they've been going back. For a country with so much sun, I really didn't see it being used much. EVs? I could count them with 1 hand. Chargers? Same. Maybe with the new Gigafactory there will be more of an incentive to buy an EV, but _most_ of the population wouldn't be able to afford one.
I would like to see videos where grid operators are challenged on their take-up of energy storage. There are lots of cheap technologies out there. Why are we wasting excess renewable energy?
On the wastage front - the grid has to 'balance' supply and demand... if supply exceeds demand too far, the grid will crash (the same as if would if demand exceeds supply). There are gov. incentives / support for building RE generation (solar + wind, etc), but iirc less/no incentives to fund storage, so generation has exceeded storage capacities.
Is there a reason, other than rank profit-seeking, that home power storage is so much more expensive than EV batteries? I can buy a new Chevy Bolt for ~$35,000 and it comes with a 66kWh battery pack. If I wanted to put 66kWh of storage in my basement that'd be at least $70,000, twice the price. I can get a used one with a like-new battery for $15,000. There's a bit of work in dropping the battery out of the Bolt and bolting it to your garage wall, but it's not rocket science. Heck, it has a built in inverter. Why are there no kits to help with things like that? Up-cycling batteries is far better than trying to recycle them when they're no good for cars anymore.
Several experiences lead me to believe that fundamentally, for mass-uptake of eco-energy, the sensible way forward is still the National Grid. Don’t get me wrong, having a local wind turbine at or near every single local transformer, seems a great idea, and so on, where it’s not a terrible nuisance to nearby residences. Some local energy generation, fine. But turning your home into a power station, is a slightly crazy and non-green idea? And it’s only for the affluent. I know there’s weird shared ownership agreements, but I wouldn’t touch them, it’s a horrid complication to your property ownership. We haven’t even got as far as the Austrians - you can have a small-scale PV array, up to 20% of your power needs or something? And you just plug it in to an extension to your ring mains wiring. In the UK, this is not possible legally, I believe. A word about retrospective insulation - baloney. I remember adverts since the 1970’s, and insulation has been shoved at us ever since…yet, here we are, and no amount of affordable retrospective insulation, will make a dent in a home energy bill that has tripled in 2 years, allied to a household income that in the same period went up by almost exactly 18%. Phooey! If we haven;t been able to manage to make a significant difference in 55 years of pressing ‘insulate your old homes’ as an ethos, I can;t see it suddenly happening now. There are many issues with the issue of insulation, but here’s just one…legacy insulation that’s cr@p and should never have been sold/installed… …eg our foam based on formaldehyde. Insects love it. Wasps can be seen, flying out with the white tell-tale foam moustache that says ‘easy!’, from our cavity wall vents. Ok, I thought let’s settle this, replace it. What help can I get as we are low-income - and I mean dirt-poor. We’re on less than £34,000 per annum as a household. In student finance terms, we’re bottom-feeder! Which is to say, I don;t see why a home on £34k is lumped in with us, their student offspring get the same help as us, who are on LESS THAN HALF THAT. This shows you the incredible issues our country faces. But to get back to the point… …I ring up, asking for help. The insulation phone line people, ask for one of those certificates, which I actually had. I gave them the info they wanted. They ask for whether we have insulation already, I explain the insects etc have removed most of it over a 40-year period. They say nothing but ask for all my name and address details…the the woman, with a flourish of ‘gotcha!’ says finally, ok, you are already insulated so we cannot help you. I said ‘pardon? Have you just taken all my details to make sure I am absolutely EXCLUDED from the possibility of insulation help?’. The woman was pretty firm. We had ‘admitted’ we had insulation already. If we got it professionally-de-installed, with a qualified company that issues a certificate to say so, we could then re-apply but there’s no guarantee…she droned on. Again, astonished, I said ‘You’ve literally just extracted my details, to ensure we won;t get our ruined insulation replaced, with any help at all?’. This outcome - a ‘helpline’ person pleased as punch they;d blocked my attempt to obtain decent insulation to replace the largely discredited and missing insulation we presently have, confounds the entire goal of assisting the less-well-off with insulating their home. She was truly chuffed, this person. She’d trapped me into supplying details, knowing full-well where she was headed. Nuances like, having useless and ruined and discredited insulation, mean nothing in this sort of system. She’d ticked the box for my property, and was very satisfied. How does this gameplaying, help reduce CO2? And so we go on, with our insulation at about 5 feet and dropping every year. It was rubbish when it was put in, as the cavity walls, were never even capped. This is nonsense. Tokenism, is where we are at. It’s a disgrace. To save the planet, the masses have to be brought into the eco-fold. This seems to not be of interest to ‘the system’ as it stands. Good luck all, in 2024. I have bought 3 houses since 1987, and not a one was adequately insulated - and like I say, the concept has been pushed for half a century. Phooey!
This is what you are about and why I support the campaign through patreon. If you want to spread missinformation about food (the Vegan fad diet), then that should be done through a compleatly different channel so not to degeade the value of the data you present.
Many people make the mistake of thinking that everything must be installed at once. It can be a step by step iterative process. And everyone's needs are individual and what works well for one may not make sense for others. Insulating and updating a building envelope first, then looking to improve heating/cooling efficiency. If electricity costs remain high them the use of residential batteries to harvest electricity at low cost times and use it up at high cost times may make sense for some. If driving a lot then an EV of some sort may prove a worthwhile investment especially as vehicle to load or to grid/battery becomes more mainstream. Small steps will get you to your destination ... eventually. This why the idea of the Home update meetings/forums with experts at the Everything Electric shows are such a good idea.
If you need a house for any new products you can you my house as a genuine pig , in Devon small three bedroom terrace, gas boiler at the moment and have been watching your videos, I have been very sceptical to be honest with a lot of the stuff I’ve seen , it might be because I’ve only got the old age pension coming in as income , but you have generated interest which has made me look into this more , when I see the heat pump scenario for water and radiators = because usually the radiators have to be changed because of the flow to do with the heat pump efficiency = made me think is that the right thing for me , not sure , my head is saying a standing cylinder with heat pump on top with an outlet to the outside makes sense and air to air heat rather than radiators makes sense to me = leave alone spend 80% of my time in the kitchen so having nine radiators to warm bedroom hall etc doesn’t make sense but having the air units does make sense because one can turn them on when the room is used that makes more sense not only with smaller bills but using less energy = much more efficient, I know there’s a scheme which would help with £7,500p from government but it seems to be for heat pump for water and radiators only why can’t it be for what is right for the customer of what they think is right for them , of course I could be wrong of which would be more beneficial for oneself yet I know my habits of my life better than any chart , sorry should of put a health warning at the beginning of the longest message in the history of messages = need a bottle of whiskey to get through this , finish on a funny story obviously humour is subjective, so last week rang British Gas to find out about the grant = they said = first you have to get a person to come round to see if you qualify obviously asked please explain oh they said at a cost of £250 pounds from myself to this person so they can tell us that you have cavity wall insulation and loft insulation to which my reply was well I have the certificate from the cavity wall and I can show you the loft my with the insulation , they said that would not be good enough, I know Buddha said a thousand mile journey starts with one small step , looks like my first step fell on deaf ears , as yet ready to take my first step , sounds like a con from British Gas , pity you can’t do a video a step by step guide to go from gas boiler to heat pump scenario and explaining the pitfalls example that you need to pay a person 250 pounds when quite easily you can do that yourself, well hope you enjoyed the whiskey , do I expect a reply I think we both know the answer to that but we can keep it our little secret, take care and may your God be good to you on life’s path.
FYI I got a quote from Octopus Energy to fit a heat pump + replace most of the radiators, plus other remedial work - after the gov. grant, it was ~1,000 GBP. I would have needed to cover some additional work myself (to qualify for the grant), but it might be worth getting a quote etc, just for reference.
@@logicalChimp where do I go to get a quote from them ? And can I get a quote from them for air to air instead of bigger radiators but with a tank with a heat pump on top of the tank ?
This video says, "When so much has been generated it has nowhere to go" and then suggests energy storage as the solution. How about we make better and connect more energy grids so that excess energy in one location can be used in another location where it is needed. We have data cables stretching around the world connecting everyone. I think it is now time for power cables to be stretched around the world to connect everyone.
Romania will have elections also în 2024, why it is not mentioned ? We have alot of inteligence and car parts to export for major brands. One of the largest Continental factories and research center is located in the middle of Romania, which manufactures onboard computers and dashboards and lots of reaserch for ... lets say Mercedes, to give only one example. Not to mention the only Dacia factory in Europe where from we export all the Dusters and Sanderos you see allover Europe.
I have had great success this winter - I have turned our gas central heating off and used a mix of Ebac dehumidifiers (highly recommend) and IR - it's been fine. But if I didn't have a home battery, I fear the running cost might have been prohibitive
@@PaulMcCormack1968Home storage is a pretty essential part of electrifying everything.... being able to run everything for most/all of the day on 'cheap' overnight electricity (via storage) cuts costs from ~35p/kWh to 7p/kWh (5x reduction). IMO (having made a couple of changes myself), home storage should be one of the first changes people look at / run the math on, as it forms a solid foundation for making so many other changes cheaper/more effective.
@@logicalChimp Absolutely right, it's a no brainer. I think solar and battery should be mandatory in all new homes as well. It's a negligible additional cost and far cheaper to fit at the build stage
I still don't understand why "payback periods" are even a consideration, considering the fact that there are ZERO payback possibilities for people relying 100% on the grid. Seriously, even a 30 year payback period would be better than never, ever having your bills go to zero.
I think the term is 'opportunity cost' - if you spend the money on something with a long payback period, then it will take a long time to recoup that money and buy your next upgrade. Conversely, if first spend it on something with a short payback period, then you can recover that money quicker, to buy your next upgrade (hopefully also with a short payback period). This means that over the same timeframe as a single upgrade with a long payback period, you could purchase multiple upgrades (each with a short payback), and thus have a far bigger improvement.
Great standards for building is all well and good but as long as 90%+ is built in a bad and inefficient way there are others things that are needed to solve the crisis than name the positive examples. Otherwise we are fooling ourselves. The same story has been done for 40 years but still most that is build is bad and inefficient. The politicians need to act 90% tougher. Influence them and seek new ruling to get all to build good and very efficient. The biggest problems we have are too high concentrarion of climate gases which building buildings and infrastructure contribute alot aswell as inefficient solutions that creates unnessecary need for power production and energy storage needs. This will in the near future be responsible for alot more climate gases, even when they are classed as renewable technology. We are taking a nessecary risk of investing in a way that creates even more climate gases så efficiency is key to have a fighting chance to stop a climate collapse.
Just remember that all of this technology depends on chips and motors. We need chip production in europe to even start thinking about transition. Motors on other hand have lifespan of 5 years and they need to be replaced. I don't think that making all electric can be cheaper. A lot of problems emerge after 3 years. If software gets more sophisticated it will be even worse, because this industry doesn't invest in programmers at all. A lot of challenges ahead that require serious mindset changes in the industry.
Agreed that software could be an issue... fortunately, in many cases the 'advanced software' is coming from separate software companies (not the hardware companies). As for motors having a 5-year lifespan... if you're talking about electric motors, that's a load of tosh. Electric motors can - do and - run for decades or longer... if they're not lasting that long, then it's either a build quality issue, or a build-design ('planned obsolescence') issue.
I'd just like a wind turbine i can use on our house that's not ugly or silly money. The Solar/battery i have i great but the sun isn't great in winter.
I hope our asian correspondent can talk his way into that chinese gravity battery. Would love to here about that. An hopefully this year really is peak emissions, I'm not entirely sure it will be, it needs to be in the next 5 years if we are to stand a chance in avoiding some of the climate warming worst predictions.
If you start using car batteries for homes, you will end up with car batteries dying within 5 year... Imagine how many more batteries you would need. Mining disaster coming up. So much for saving the planet... Disaster is inevitable.
EV use far more energy to drive than most people realise... a 'typical' house (ie mine :p) draws ~1kW (or less) per hour (with higher spikes for e.g. the kettle / cooking)... which means a 'typical' ~55kWh EV battery can run the house for 2 days on a single charge... vs. ~3hrs if that car is driving on the motorway. Given EV batteries are expected to last 3,000-5,000 cycles, that would be ~20-30+ years if powering the house full-time. (and that's a conservative estimate... if we get the so-called 'million-mile' batteries, then battery lifespan would exceed 50+ years - for driving *and* powering the house.
@@logicalChimp when we get the million mile battery, we can discuss. But for now we don't have this technology and you forget something called battery capacity degradation (and no way current batteries hold same capacity after 3000 cycles, especially in EVs.)
Aside from a few industrial processes (which are already converting, or have converted already), hydrogen is a distraction. As for mining 'metals' - that will be a consideration when looking at *world wide mining for everything*, not just the 'new' cleantech. After all, FF 'mining' and drilling is an order of magnitude bigger (or more), and does far more damage, than mining for Lithium, etc.... not to mention that tech is already starting to move beyond Lithium to Sodium and Sulphur etc (which don't require 'mining').
@@logicalChimp No. As usual "you" and a lot of other posters are behind the times and merely post "history lessons". And, as said prior to "now", if you feel you know better then it's open to you to write to BMW, say, (other outfits are available) and tell them where they're going wrong with their plans to introduce hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, both in Europe and S Africa. And tell the Euros where they're you going wrong with their hydrogen distribution networks. You might also consider researching Toyota and others ref their R&D on burning hydrogen in converted/adapted ICE vehicles. Robert covered this aspect last year on his piece about JCB ICE plant running on hydrogen fuel. Similarly using hydrogen gas in domestic heating applications. Had you researched at length then you would know that prior to the introduction of North Sea gas in 1967 the UK burned "town gas". Town gas was a mixture of 49% hydrogen, 34% methane and I can't recall the rest except that it was "wetter" than North Sea gas. Using North Sea gas dried out the "plumbers' mate" type sealant and gas engineers virtually became millionaires overnight resealing millions of ageing joints in the old "iron barrel" pipework. You will have noted that subsequently copper pipe and yellow polypropylene pipe replaced the original gas mains and domestic installations. To listen to The Mogg droning on about how hydrogen gas can't possibly is laughable. What we learn on Robert's platform is equally laughable because he does very little to balance his views and appears to be stuck on batteries. Were you and he, or his researchers, read up on the mining industry press releases then you wouldn't be quite so sanguine on how lithium batteries are going to "save the day". And certainly we read of other battery technologies that by inference are even "better" but you should factor in that very few alternative battery technologies are in widespread commercial usage. I would suggest that yourself and Robert do a great deal more research before the proselytising on battery tech. You might consider too that we in UK haven't heard that much regarding these massive "new" battery construction projects. Perhaps Robert could send Imogen to report on the state of play with said projects? This presumes of course there's an "actual" physical battery manufacturing plant available to report on. In conclusion you and fellow posters would be shrewd to research hydrogen technology as well as what Robert is pleased to tell us about battery tech. That way you'll get better balanced reporting to question what Robert chooses to believe. This means that when he and his unqualified colleagues do their mythbusting seminars you'll be far better equipped to see through the somewhat fantastical claims for battery technology. Hope that helps.
It’s going to be a big year!! Will see what happens in the UK. Not great hopes to be honest as Tories are loosing the plot, and Labour with Starmer is so bland and uncommitted…. 😢.
@@EverythingElectricShow less fast speaking is more important, but subtitles would also help, though when you don't have talking head but anything important on the screen, subtitles are a distraction.
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Thank you Imogen for giving me just a little hope for the future!
It’s good to have some positive, well founded, well researched information amongst the sea of FUD emanating from traditional “information” sources.
You go Everything Electric Show, love these films and so interested in what is coming out soon. Wish people would get more behind it and see what a difference it is making
Thank you so much for that cheerful look ahead - much appreciated in the winter gloom.
V2G has the potential to be an absolute game changer!
Fingers crossed it finally becomes more than just experimental trials in 2024!
We've had V2H for three months and it's dropped our average electricity cost by 22% just by allowing us to use cheap off-peak electricity during the day and it hasn't even been sunny enough to generate a significant amount of solar yet. Combined with our energy saving efforts (we've dropped our electricity consumption by 25% and our gas consumption by 51% since 2021). The icing on the cake is that the EV we've owned for 4½ years (second hand) has paid for its purchase price in fuel savings alone compared to the car it replaced. So it's the gift that keeps on giving.
@@jarthursSounds awesome! Would love to learn more!
Are you on the Indra trial?@@jarthurs
Excellent and hopeful preview of the year ahead. I would love to see V2G take off, as well as a massive up-tick in grid-level renewable energy storage. Thanks, Imogen (and team).
We had a lot of fun compiling this list, but almost certainly have missed LOADS. What are you excited about in 2024??
I'm hoping to see more progress in cleaning up of shipping and aircraft. Love to see a mandate that all cruise ships and cargo ships that docked in UK ports have to be plug into the grid.
But personally I'm looking forward to seeing how much electricity my heat pump tumble dryer saves me.
Starship launch 🙂 And a renewable way to make the methane for it.
Great to hear a mention of passivhaus and lower impact, biobased construction materials. Passivhaus is going through the process of being adopted as a standard for all new residential buildings in Scotland, so that's very exciting. There's also a draft of new building regulations that would put a target on embodied carbon in buildings, which would be the first time this is captured in the regulations. Hopefully this will encourage more use of materials like timber, straw, hemp and cellulose. Keep up the great work! Oh and if you'd like to visit a zero bills, full electric passivhaus made of timber and straw let me know :)
I'd like to see more on road chargers for overnight cheap chargers for those of us living in flats with no ability to make our landlords install car charges. Similarly companies stepping forward to help landlords invest in such things with reasonable payback periods, and also solar panels.
Nuclear energy and deep geothermal.
District heating and trains.
Happy New Year, Imogen. That was a great summary of the positive developments to look forward to in 2024. Thanks also to your production team - great video style. 👏👏
Thank you Imogen, a really upbeat and interesting start to the year.
Love the the kit is getting smaller but better
Great start to the year, Imogen. Very positive presentation of all that is possible if we can together eliminate the negative, misinformation and the constant barrage of political hypocrisy! It’s a fact that pessimism is for lightweights 😄
2 things:
1. I love that the tiny CGI windmills in the shelf properly resized as the camera zoomed in.
2. I'm not a fan of the second camera if the second camera does not get eye contact. I much prefer when the presenter moves around in the frame once every few sentences (see supercarlinbrothers videos for a good example). This breaks the visual monotony, allows the presenter to have smaller takes and doesn't look as awkward because the presenter is always looking at the camera.
Yeah I'm with you on point 2. That not-quite-looking-at-you view is slightly off putting.
I have hybrid off-grid solar inverters, but instead of connecting in grid power for backup I have a line from my BYD’s Seal’s V2L. (Videos on my EcoHouseThailand RUclips channel)
I’ve continued paying $1/month to rent a meter from my electricity provider in the vain hope that I might one day be able to feed power back to the grid, even if that meant buying an on-grid inverter to do it.
However, I think the time has come to give up on that idea and ask my electricity provider to take their meter back as I’ve had my meter replaced 5 times over the last 6 years as they thought it was broken!
would love to see you do a video about Lune Walk
Watch this space! 😊
It is amazing to see how many different options are starting to appear for stoarge. This should be a great year!
Great to see improved air source pumps and upgraded solar. We have been working on upgrades to our house for many years to spread the costs. (We are pensioners so need to budget very carefully and have had to make choices. Holidays or solar panels etc )
Our biggest issue has been lack of professional support and interest from suppliers and installers to actually do the work we want done. For example we only found one company who were willing to fit solar and they took from July 22 to March 23 to actually achieve switch on. We want an air to air heat pump but cannot find any company interested in quoting on one ( a local company did visit but won't answer my calls now )
I appreciate it's relatively new technology in this country but we had a solar hot water system installed in our house when we lived in Australia in the 70's .
A centre where you can pick up the phone and talk to an engineer eould be great ( as per the Fully Charged show we attended last year - excellent, do go )
Your thoughts everyone?
So true, unless of course you are eligible for an ECO4 funding when you will get a plethora of dodgy companies crawling out the woodwork offering to help, most of whom will disappear as soon as there is a problem.
What I would like is the emergence of a holistic consultant who could look at an entire house and advise what the most efficient order of upgrades would be and was completely independent of any brand/installer and could advise at each stage on what size and brand to install next
@@justinstephenson9360 hi Justin. Thanks for your response and agree entirely with your analysis. Good independent professional guidance for each individual property. Not a government clone or a slick salesman but a properly trained and qualified assessor who has the best interests of the home owner as his priority.
The £7500 grant , whilst handy for the well off , does nothing to help everybody....we all need good advice as to what each and everyone of us can do to improve the efficiency of our homes within the owners budget.
I could afford a heat pump but the grant I could get is unfair. That money could be better spent helping more people than just me.( A good survey should cost maybe £300 ? )
I will wait and see who does come out the woodwork!
Best regards.
Renewable energy rocks 🪨 🎸 😎
So much hope! 😍
Love it!!! great stuff
Super positive. I so needed this.
I'm most interested in heat pump water heaters! I'd like to have one in my home!
My friends got one at his house, he can only afford to have it on a few hours a day, he found his previous gas boiler much cheaper to use.
Very important you use an experienced installer with a track record of successful installations. Otherwise you wind up with the problem of it being more expensive than a gas boiler. It's a no brainier if you are not on mains gas.
@@Bawdale hmmm, well his home belongs to a housing association, so i should imagine they use people who know what they are doing. I hope my landlord doesn't decide to fit them as the rent will surely rise, so I'll be worse off, same with solar.
@@Markcain268 Just to avoid confusion: hot water making heat pump. Not home heating. Do we speak about the same?
@@Bawdale Again, for hot water, not home heating.
Fantastic video summary, I wish there was a mega-like button on RUclips. Please make this a new tradition!
Thanks for this great information!
Thanks
Another brilliant report by Imogen, keep them coming
Fantastic episode! Positive and realistic, well researched and balanced information. Great stuff
Thank you, Imogen.
👍 Great to hear some positive news on Climate and the environment.
Thank you
Where are the materials for all these batteries going to come from?
You guys in UK should take something like build you own Greenhouses and warm it with compose pile to use fro heat then in Spring time use for new soil for new year! You can look that very easily and in these times might help others!
Really nice overview. Thanks for such a positive, upbeat view. Cost is, I’m sure, still the biggest barrier to change. I hope that the next Uk government finally sees the need to stop supporting fossil fuels and really start supporting renewables instead.
Thank you.
@7:38 layering what?
Perovskite
Kindness is always free, the Highlander😊
I could listen to Imogen all day, I don’t know if she memorised that script or was reading an auto-cue, but either way she is such a listenable-to presenter! Keep up the great work Imogen! 🤩 And indeed 2024 should be a very exciting year! 😎
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
What I want in 2024 in the UK is the ability to go to ONE provider get a survey done on my property and find out what my property needs or wants.
There are so many different options and a barrage of conflicting information.
and of course the solor guy will recommend solar.
Wind guy recommend wind
Heat punm guy recommend heat pumps
Window guy ... NEW WINDOWS!
I want a true netural do a report and see what works for MY HOUSE.
I know. This really bothers me. I just want someone to come in and tell me what needs doing to get the house up to B of C energy rating with data etc. but I can't find anyone to do it!
Can't wait to see what 2024 brings in sustainable transport and living market
In British Columbia (Canada), we have mild temperatures and inexpensive electricity, so heat pumps are already really mainstream here! But we’re not a terribly sunny place, so solar is still niche in these parts.
Solar makes little sense in BC since it is powered by hydro except for a few remote communities. You are actually increasing the carbon footprint if you use solar in the lower mainland. It is also does not make financial sense since electricity is so cheap. You probably won't get a payback before the lifespan of the panels and batteries.
@@yodaiam1000 BC needs to greatly increase its electrical power supply to power electric cars and to replace natural gas (which is used for 50% of home heating). Building massive dams is very expensive and has long lead time, so there is a place for solar (and wind). After all, if the UK can use solar to generate significant amounts of electricity, then so can British Columbia.
@@simhedgesrex7097 The UK is very different from BC. BC already has a massive hydro project underway at site C. BC has so much power that it currently exports it and will be exporting more which is a good thing to minimize the carbon production. Right now, there is no need for solar and wind unless you are in an isolated community that is not supplied by the dams. That can change in the future but there is no current justification to add solar panels to a roof in the lower mainland. The solar panels have a carbon footprint and the payback period is too long to justify them. Of course it can be done, it just doesn't make sense.
I would wait until there is more of a justification. It is better to use those panels in places like California or areas with a high percentage of FF generation.
@@yodaiam1000 Site C is large at 1.1GB, but will increase BC's hydro capacity by about 7%. You are absolutely correct that right now there is no need for more generation capacity, but that "that can change in the future". And "the future" is exactly what I was talking about. As electricity demand in BC significantly increases as Natural Gas is phased out, and may 50% more electricity is needed, then there will be little time to produce more massive dam projects to meet the need. And, of course, in the meantime every kWh that BC produces from solar is a kWh that can be sold over the border to the USA at a profit.
When natural gas usage ramps down in BC, what are you proposing should replace it?
@@simhedgesrex7097 It is more responsible to to use the electricity within BC as power needs increase. You have transmission loses so it is better to lower the carbon footprint overall for the places outside of BC to get solar panels.
As stated, we can add solar panels and wind in the future if we need them but right now, it is better to reduce the carbon footprint by utilizing solar panels in other locations.
If you look at the municipal building bylaws, it is required in some municipalities to add conduit for future panels. No one is reckless ignoring future demands but it will be a while before it makes sense to add PV cells in most of BC.
I suspect "low cost" is doing some heavy lifting in this video title. "Lower cost" may be closer to the mark for most people.
Loved this podcast style video, you are every bit as good as Robert's ‐ not as waffle filled either (actually sometimes I love his waffle style of humour but when I want a quick round up you are the best). See you in Australia. P.S. when are you coming to New Zealand?
TRUTH & HONESTY MUST BE TESTED & CONFIRMED JUST LIKE EDUCATION CREDENTIALS
Super insulated home design has been around for years, decades even but UK house builders have no interest in using such designs because it increases the cost. Without legislation requiring them to change their ways you will be producing videos for years talking about super insulated homes being the future but never the present
Yup - the reason the UK has the worst-insulated homes in the EU has nothing to do with 'builder incompetence', and everything to do with the lack of regulation requiring them to build to a higher standard.
Likewise, imo building regs. should be *requiring* all new homes be electrified (no more new-builds with gas already locked in - replacing existing gas is *far* more expensive than building electric in the first place), ditto new builds should have solar on the roof (again, fitment at construction time is cheaper than fitting after), and Wiring installed for home storage, EV charger, and similar (note: only the wiring, as these can be fitted afterwards at little extra cost, if the wiring is in place).
@@logicalChimp All good points. And we did, sort of, have those regulations there used to be a legal requirement that from 2016 all new builds had to be Code 6 (essentially carbon neutral) compliant. That was repealed by the government following a long lobbying campaign by house builders.
@@justinstephenson9360houses built up until 2025 are still allowed gas boilers, but not after that. But there is a loophole. If you build the foundations that counts as construction in progress and you can still have a gas connection even if the house isn't finished for a few more years.
@@adrianthoroughgood1191 that is interesting, so I am guessing that the UK house building industry will start huge numbers of homes in late 2024 by building foundations, then mothball the sites to ensure they have enough supply to build the "normal" way for another few years
Thank you for sharing how we can use this amazing energy efficiency technology to become prosumers e.g. consumers that produce energy too, and sometimes even a bit more than the
What about heat recovery from sewage? Once heat is recovered it can be pumped back to homes and used in heat pumps to amplify the heat. Minimal to no infustructure investent required.
Thanks, I await V2G, it is a major goal to go alongside with EVs.
It’s a distraction. If V2G solved a problem (fewer poles and wires, better electricity pricing, grid reliability, disaster resilience) each jurisdiction would mandate it
I managed to buy a V2G charger a few months ago. It's been everything it's hyped to be and more. I'm excited to see what people will do with smart home integrations and V2G chargers.
I love good news with my breakfast
I really want a deep dive into the software and the grid side of things
Very good. Is it possible to have an explainer on how our energy tariffs are arrived at? With renewables making up a big proportion of our electricity, why are my gas tariffs only one fifth of my daytime electricity tariff?
what a good idea! on the list for discussion!
In summary form: the market energy price is set by the most expensive generation source that is actively providing power (currently nat.gas. iirc)... the idea being that because 'cheaper' forms of generation therefor make massive profits, it would be an incentive for companies to switch off their 'expensive' generation and build cheaper generation...
Alas, companies have - apparently - decided they'll just bake their profit margin into their generation prices, and keep running the inefficient / expensive generators :/
I can see that they need to keep these expensive generators going because of the intermittent nature of the renwables, but this still doesn't explain why my gas is 7.4p /kWh but my electric day tariff is 38.63p/kWh. The modern combined cycle gas generators are almost 60% efficient and obviously they must pay much less than the 7.4p/kWh for their gas than I do, so allowing for this shouldn't the electricity from CCGT be much lower - not 5 times more than gas?
@@markkunes9711 Bear in mind that the 'generation price' includes the (ammortised) cost of building the gas generator, the ongoing maintenance of the gas generator, the profit-margin for running the gas generator, and other factors - not just the nat.gas fuel source.
It likely also includes the cost of the chimney scrubbers (to reduce pollution), and all the corporate costs associated with monitoring, reporting, and other legal requirements compliance, etc.
@@logicalChimpIt also includes a return on investment and/or dividends to investors. And I suppose a few CEO's are taking home a few pennies as well.
Title is a bit misleading. I thought this was low cost stuff i could purchase for the home.
It is low cost stuff for the home. Every home should have it all by the end of the year.
Obviously if you don't have a balcony, you can't have the balcony solar panels, but for the rest there is no excuse.
@@robinhood4640if you think a Herschel Halo heater is a) low cost and b) for the home then I'd love your home and income!
@@robinhood4640 The balcony solar systems can also come with a ground or wall mounting kit, I am keeping my eyes on this as a way of adding to my roof solar which loses the sun as it moves into the evening. The panels are usually sending their energy to a portable battery instead of into the grid.
@@robinhood4640 low cost? Yeah if you have lots of money!
Such a fast list, can we actually get details on some of these products?
Thanks for the swish updates.
unfortunately we cant donate power to our neighbors. We sell it to someone for 1 - 8c and then they sell it to them for 30 - 56c. I wanted to connect a battery at my neighbors with my solar but was told it was illegal
Imogen must need a good lie down after that high speed information delivery. Well done.
I do hope that now you have teased us with all these new things, that there are actually going to be shows on them?
The trouble is, do you wait for the best next thing, (always another around the corner), or commit now, and see something better a year later and wish you had waited? Trouble is, by waiting, you are also loosing out :-{
As always, 20:20 hindsight before the event is a must have !!!
We've may have a few of them in the pipeline!
The 'buy now, or wait for next gen' has been an issue for tech/ computing for decades... and the general rule that works there should work here too: work out what you *need* (rather than 'want'), and then buy as soon as a suitable product hits a price you can afford... there will *always* be something 'better' coming along later, but the more time you spend waiting for 'perfect', the more time you spend paying for your current 'crap' :p
@@logicalChimp Nicely put 🙂
We jumped into Solar PV in 2011. Best investment we ever made! More added in 2018 + a Powerwall, but it is the FiT on the first lot that is still bringing in the biggest return.
The other great truth: "You Snooze, You LOOSE!" COMES TO MIND.
Just vote for Imogen, PM! 🥰👏🏻
Early comment to feed the algorithm.
Early reply because the algorithm is always hungry!
C'mon, EV and EVSE makers: let's get V2G going here in the USA! It's about time! They've had it in Japan for years!
Lock up Tornagrain Zero C. This has been around for about 15 years. Another is Makar, give it a google, if you like renewables.
HOW DOES ONE GET CLEAN ENERGY WITH DIRTY POLITICIANS ! ?
Change the politicians in power to those who aren't tied to vested interests ... if that is at all possible. They did it in Australia but I fear here in Canada we may be setting up to move in the wrong direction politically vis a vis Clean Energy and the reducing of fossil fuel subsidies and burning.
I've got a diesel heater and burn anything stove to keep me warm, electric is way too expensive as is solar and heat pumps, net zero is something I'll never achieve, in fact i produce a lot more pollution these days than i ever have! Oh well, we live our lives as best we can!
I have a great roof facing south but at my age,72, could I see a return on solar and battery storage? When I can’t even get a smart meter for my EV fitted, so I can take advantage of cheaper power, because there is no WAN. The SMWAN still uses the 2/3G network and that has always been bad were I live - You would think I live in the middle the mores but no I live in the Sth of Epsom next to Ashtead common! 😂 Never mind it should be better soon - Look forward to seeing you guys at the end of March.
If only solar panels could somehow capture the radiance of Imogen we could power the country 🙂
All sounds great provided existing green tech isn’t being binned just to have the newest, shiny thing - let existing stuff live out its life provided it’s not contributing to the problem…
This sounds so good. However, I went to Mexico and I felt like they've been going back. For a country with so much sun, I really didn't see it being used much. EVs? I could count them with 1 hand. Chargers? Same. Maybe with the new Gigafactory there will be more of an incentive to buy an EV, but _most_ of the population wouldn't be able to afford one.
Let’s just see what happens in 2024
I would like to see videos where grid operators are challenged on their take-up of energy storage. There are lots of cheap technologies out there. Why are we wasting excess renewable energy?
On the wastage front - the grid has to 'balance' supply and demand... if supply exceeds demand too far, the grid will crash (the same as if would if demand exceeds supply). There are gov. incentives / support for building RE generation (solar + wind, etc), but iirc less/no incentives to fund storage, so generation has exceeded storage capacities.
Is there a reason, other than rank profit-seeking, that home power storage is so much more expensive than EV batteries?
I can buy a new Chevy Bolt for ~$35,000 and it comes with a 66kWh battery pack. If I wanted to put 66kWh of storage in my basement that'd be at least $70,000, twice the price.
I can get a used one with a like-new battery for $15,000.
There's a bit of work in dropping the battery out of the Bolt and bolting it to your garage wall, but it's not rocket science. Heck, it has a built in inverter. Why are there no kits to help with things like that? Up-cycling batteries is far better than trying to recycle them when they're no good for cars anymore.
Lots of nice optimistic stuff but micro grids in the UK? Too many vested interests are opposed to it. Sadly it just won’t happen
Several experiences lead me to believe that fundamentally, for mass-uptake of eco-energy, the sensible way forward is still the National Grid. Don’t get me wrong, having a local wind turbine at or near every single local transformer, seems a great idea, and so on, where it’s not a terrible nuisance to nearby residences. Some local energy generation, fine. But turning your home into a power station, is a slightly crazy and non-green idea? And it’s only for the affluent. I know there’s weird shared ownership agreements, but I wouldn’t touch them, it’s a horrid complication to your property ownership. We haven’t even got as far as the Austrians - you can have a small-scale PV array, up to 20% of your power needs or something? And you just plug it in to an extension to your ring mains wiring. In the UK, this is not possible legally, I believe.
A word about retrospective insulation - baloney. I remember adverts since the 1970’s, and insulation has been shoved at us ever since…yet, here we are, and no amount of affordable retrospective insulation, will make a dent in a home energy bill that has tripled in 2 years, allied to a household income that in the same period went up by almost exactly 18%. Phooey! If we haven;t been able to manage to make a significant difference in 55 years of pressing ‘insulate your old homes’ as an ethos, I can;t see it suddenly happening now. There are many issues with the issue of insulation, but here’s just one…legacy insulation that’s cr@p and should never have been sold/installed…
…eg our foam based on formaldehyde. Insects love it. Wasps can be seen, flying out with the white tell-tale foam moustache that says ‘easy!’, from our cavity wall vents. Ok, I thought let’s settle this, replace it. What help can I get as we are low-income - and I mean dirt-poor. We’re on less than £34,000 per annum as a household. In student finance terms, we’re bottom-feeder! Which is to say, I don;t see why a home on £34k is lumped in with us, their student offspring get the same help as us, who are on LESS THAN HALF THAT. This shows you the incredible issues our country faces. But to get back to the point…
…I ring up, asking for help. The insulation phone line people, ask for one of those certificates, which I actually had. I gave them the info they wanted. They ask for whether we have insulation already, I explain the insects etc have removed most of it over a 40-year period. They say nothing but ask for all my name and address details…the the woman, with a flourish of ‘gotcha!’ says finally, ok, you are already insulated so we cannot help you. I said ‘pardon? Have you just taken all my details to make sure I am absolutely EXCLUDED from the possibility of insulation help?’.
The woman was pretty firm. We had ‘admitted’ we had insulation already. If we got it professionally-de-installed, with a qualified company that issues a certificate to say so, we could then re-apply but there’s no guarantee…she droned on. Again, astonished, I said ‘You’ve literally just extracted my details, to ensure we won;t get our ruined insulation replaced, with any help at all?’. This outcome - a ‘helpline’ person pleased as punch they;d blocked my attempt to obtain decent insulation to replace the largely discredited and missing insulation we presently have, confounds the entire goal of assisting the less-well-off with insulating their home.
She was truly chuffed, this person. She’d trapped me into supplying details, knowing full-well where she was headed. Nuances like, having useless and ruined and discredited insulation, mean nothing in this sort of system. She’d ticked the box for my property, and was very satisfied. How does this gameplaying, help reduce CO2? And so we go on, with our insulation at about 5 feet and dropping every year. It was rubbish when it was put in, as the cavity walls, were never even capped. This is nonsense. Tokenism, is where we are at. It’s a disgrace. To save the planet, the masses have to be brought into the eco-fold. This seems to not be of interest to ‘the system’ as it stands. Good luck all, in 2024. I have bought 3 houses since 1987, and not a one was adequately insulated - and like I say, the concept has been pushed for half a century. Phooey!
I felt like i was watching a really great queens speech
This is what you are about and why I support the campaign through patreon.
If you want to spread missinformation about food (the Vegan fad diet), then that should be done through a compleatly different channel so not to degeade the value of the data you present.
"Low cost" is relative, I guess.
Many people make the mistake of thinking that everything must be installed at once. It can be a step by step iterative process. And everyone's needs are individual and what works well for one may not make sense for others.
Insulating and updating a building envelope first, then looking to improve heating/cooling efficiency. If electricity costs remain high them the use of residential batteries to harvest electricity at low cost times and use it up at high cost times may make sense for some.
If driving a lot then an EV of some sort may prove a worthwhile investment especially as vehicle to load or to grid/battery becomes more mainstream.
Small steps will get you to your destination ... eventually. This why the idea of the Home update meetings/forums with experts at the Everything Electric shows are such a good idea.
If you need a house for any new products you can you my house as a genuine pig , in Devon small three bedroom terrace, gas boiler at the moment and have been watching your videos, I have been very sceptical to be honest with a lot of the stuff I’ve seen , it might be because I’ve only got the old age pension coming in as income , but you have generated interest which has made me look into this more , when I see the heat pump scenario for water and radiators = because usually the radiators have to be changed because of the flow to do with the heat pump efficiency = made me think is that the right thing for me , not sure , my head is saying a standing cylinder with heat pump on top with an outlet to the outside makes sense and air to air heat rather than radiators makes sense to me = leave alone spend 80% of my time in the kitchen so having nine radiators to warm bedroom hall etc doesn’t make sense but having the air units does make sense because one can turn them on when the room is used that makes more sense not only with smaller bills but using less energy = much more efficient, I know there’s a scheme which would help with £7,500p from government but it seems to be for heat pump for water and radiators only why can’t it be for what is right for the customer of what they think is right for them , of course I could be wrong of which would be more beneficial for oneself yet I know my habits of my life better than any chart , sorry should of put a health warning at the beginning of the longest message in the history of messages = need a bottle of whiskey to get through this , finish on a funny story obviously humour is subjective, so last week rang British Gas to find out about the grant = they said = first you have to get a person to come round to see if you qualify obviously asked please explain oh they said at a cost of £250 pounds from myself to this person so they can tell us that you have cavity wall insulation and loft insulation to which my reply was well I have the certificate from the cavity wall and I can show you the loft my with the insulation , they said that would not be good enough, I know Buddha said a thousand mile journey starts with one small step , looks like my first step fell on deaf ears , as yet ready to take my first step , sounds like a con from British Gas , pity you can’t do a video a step by step guide to go from gas boiler to heat pump scenario and explaining the pitfalls example that you need to pay a person 250 pounds when quite easily you can do that yourself, well hope you enjoyed the whiskey , do I expect a reply I think we both know the answer to that but we can keep it our little secret, take care and may your God be good to you on life’s path.
FYI I got a quote from Octopus Energy to fit a heat pump + replace most of the radiators, plus other remedial work - after the gov. grant, it was ~1,000 GBP. I would have needed to cover some additional work myself (to qualify for the grant), but it might be worth getting a quote etc, just for reference.
@@logicalChimp where do I go to get a quote from them ? And can I get a quote from them for air to air instead of bigger radiators but with a tank with a heat pump on top of the tank ?
Slow down Imogen, I can't keep up!😮
Pan-oppoly, lol. Airhead.
This video says, "When so much has been generated it has nowhere to go" and then suggests energy storage as the solution. How about we make better and connect more energy grids so that excess energy in one location can be used in another location where it is needed. We have data cables stretching around the world connecting everyone. I think it is now time for power cables to be stretched around the world to connect everyone.
VPP is a buzz word to smooth over the insufficient factors that RE also has and the high cost if you want variables to take the highest %
When do you think we can achieve abundance in energy?
We are glossing over the incredible cost of installing new power lines for all of this to actually work?
Romania will have elections also în 2024, why it is not mentioned ? We have alot of inteligence and car parts to export for major brands. One of the largest Continental factories and research center is located in the middle of Romania, which manufactures onboard computers and dashboards and lots of reaserch for ... lets say Mercedes, to give only one example. Not to mention the only Dacia factory in Europe where from we export all the Dusters and Sanderos you see allover Europe.
IR is not a solution in an old building unless dehumidifying is involved
I have had great success this winter - I have turned our gas central heating off and used a mix of Ebac dehumidifiers (highly recommend) and IR - it's been fine. But if I didn't have a home battery, I fear the running cost might have been prohibitive
@@PaulMcCormack1968Home storage is a pretty essential part of electrifying everything.... being able to run everything for most/all of the day on 'cheap' overnight electricity (via storage) cuts costs from ~35p/kWh to 7p/kWh (5x reduction).
IMO (having made a couple of changes myself), home storage should be one of the first changes people look at / run the math on, as it forms a solid foundation for making so many other changes cheaper/more effective.
@@logicalChimp Absolutely right, it's a no brainer. I think solar and battery should be mandatory in all new homes as well. It's a negligible additional cost and far cheaper to fit at the build stage
This is such a misleading title. None of these were low cost technologies...
They live in a different world to reality.
I still don't understand why "payback periods" are even a consideration, considering the fact that there are ZERO payback possibilities for people relying 100% on the grid. Seriously, even a 30 year payback period would be better than never, ever having your bills go to zero.
I think the term is 'opportunity cost' - if you spend the money on something with a long payback period, then it will take a long time to recoup that money and buy your next upgrade. Conversely, if first spend it on something with a short payback period, then you can recover that money quicker, to buy your next upgrade (hopefully also with a short payback period).
This means that over the same timeframe as a single upgrade with a long payback period, you could purchase multiple upgrades (each with a short payback), and thus have a far bigger improvement.
Who is the mystery person sitting off-camera?
you're not mentioning the European Elections? Quite a big deal I reckon
Great standards for building is all well and good but as long as 90%+ is built in a bad and inefficient way there are others things that are needed to solve the crisis than name the positive examples. Otherwise we are fooling ourselves. The same story has been done for 40 years but still most that is build is bad and inefficient.
The politicians need to act 90% tougher. Influence them and seek new ruling to get all to build good and very efficient.
The biggest problems we have are too high concentrarion of climate gases which building buildings and infrastructure contribute alot aswell as inefficient solutions that creates unnessecary need for power production and energy storage needs. This will in the near future be responsible for alot more climate gases, even when they are classed as renewable technology. We are taking a nessecary risk of investing in a way that creates even more climate gases så efficiency is key to have a fighting chance to stop a climate collapse.
You forgot to mention the Russian election is this year too. 😂
Just remember that all of this technology depends on chips and motors. We need chip production in europe to even start thinking about transition. Motors on other hand have lifespan of 5 years and they need to be replaced.
I don't think that making all electric can be cheaper. A lot of problems emerge after 3 years. If software gets more sophisticated it will be even worse, because this industry doesn't invest in programmers at all.
A lot of challenges ahead that require serious mindset changes in the industry.
Agreed that software could be an issue... fortunately, in many cases the 'advanced software' is coming from separate software companies (not the hardware companies).
As for motors having a 5-year lifespan... if you're talking about electric motors, that's a load of tosh. Electric motors can - do and - run for decades or longer... if they're not lasting that long, then it's either a build quality issue, or a build-design ('planned obsolescence') issue.
All awesome stuff
One note - please learn how to pronounce Perovskite - correct pronunciation makes the nerds able to stop shouting at the laptop 😊😂
I don’t know, I think they should, it’ll help them learn life’s a compromise and to value content over pronunciation 😁
I'd just like a wind turbine i can use on our house that's not ugly or silly money. The Solar/battery i have i great but the sun isn't great in winter.
I hope our asian correspondent can talk his way into that chinese gravity battery. Would love to here about that.
An hopefully this year really is peak emissions, I'm not entirely sure it will be, it needs to be in the next 5 years if we are to stand a chance in avoiding some of the climate warming worst predictions.
Do Not Ignore Nuclear Energy!
If you start using car batteries for homes, you will end up with car batteries dying within 5 year...
Imagine how many more batteries you would need. Mining disaster coming up. So much for saving the planet...
Disaster is inevitable.
EV use far more energy to drive than most people realise... a 'typical' house (ie mine :p) draws ~1kW (or less) per hour (with higher spikes for e.g. the kettle / cooking)... which means a 'typical' ~55kWh EV battery can run the house for 2 days on a single charge... vs. ~3hrs if that car is driving on the motorway.
Given EV batteries are expected to last 3,000-5,000 cycles, that would be ~20-30+ years if powering the house full-time.
(and that's a conservative estimate... if we get the so-called 'million-mile' batteries, then battery lifespan would exceed 50+ years - for driving *and* powering the house.
@@logicalChimp when we get the million mile battery, we can discuss.
But for now we don't have this technology and you forget something called battery capacity degradation (and no way current batteries hold same capacity after 3000 cycles, especially in EVs.)
Hmm, not a lot of actual content.
And, as usual, no great detail on hydrogen.
And nothing on mining the metals ...
Aside from a few industrial processes (which are already converting, or have converted already), hydrogen is a distraction.
As for mining 'metals' - that will be a consideration when looking at *world wide mining for everything*, not just the 'new' cleantech. After all, FF 'mining' and drilling is an order of magnitude bigger (or more), and does far more damage, than mining for Lithium, etc.... not to mention that tech is already starting to move beyond Lithium to Sodium and Sulphur etc (which don't require 'mining').
@@logicalChimp
No.
As usual "you" and a lot of other posters are behind the times and merely post "history lessons".
And, as said prior to "now", if you feel you know better then it's open to you to write to BMW, say, (other outfits are available) and tell them where they're going wrong with their plans to introduce hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, both in Europe and S Africa.
And tell the Euros where they're you going wrong with their hydrogen distribution networks.
You might also consider researching Toyota and others ref their R&D on burning hydrogen in converted/adapted ICE vehicles.
Robert covered this aspect last year on his piece about JCB ICE plant running on hydrogen fuel.
Similarly using hydrogen gas in domestic heating applications.
Had you researched at length then you would know that prior to the introduction of North Sea gas in 1967 the UK burned "town gas".
Town gas was a mixture of 49% hydrogen, 34% methane and I can't recall the rest except that it was "wetter" than North Sea gas.
Using North Sea gas dried out the "plumbers' mate" type sealant and gas engineers virtually became millionaires overnight resealing millions of ageing joints in the old "iron barrel" pipework.
You will have noted that subsequently copper pipe and yellow polypropylene pipe replaced the original gas mains and domestic installations.
To listen to The Mogg droning on about how hydrogen gas can't possibly is laughable.
What we learn on Robert's platform is equally laughable because he does very little to balance his views and appears to be stuck on batteries.
Were you and he, or his researchers, read up on the mining industry press releases then you wouldn't be quite so sanguine on how lithium batteries are going to "save the day".
And certainly we read of other battery technologies that by inference are even "better" but you should factor in that very few alternative battery technologies are in widespread commercial usage.
I would suggest that yourself and Robert do a great deal more research before the proselytising on battery tech.
You might consider too that we in UK haven't heard that much regarding these massive "new" battery construction projects.
Perhaps Robert could send Imogen to report on the state of play with said projects?
This presumes of course there's an "actual" physical battery manufacturing plant available to report on.
In conclusion you and fellow posters would be shrewd to research hydrogen technology as well as what Robert is pleased to tell us about battery tech.
That way you'll get better balanced reporting to question what Robert chooses to believe.
This means that when he and his unqualified colleagues do their mythbusting seminars you'll be far better equipped to see through the somewhat fantastical claims for battery technology.
Hope that helps.
It’s going to be a big year!!
Will see what happens in the UK. Not great hopes to be honest as Tories are loosing the plot, and Labour with Starmer is so bland and uncommitted…. 😢.
As a non native english speaker she speaks way to fast
this is helpful feedback - would subtitles help too?
@@EverythingElectricShow less fast speaking is more important, but subtitles would also help, though when you don't have talking head but anything important on the screen, subtitles are a distraction.
"...coolstuff..." that isn't electric: Solar Reflective paint: 100 watts of cooling per square meter in direct sunlight...