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Alan
@alannotsteve.bsky.social
Family, F1, Renewables, EVs, Science, Scouts.
Born at 338.99 ppm CO2 vs. 421.55 now. (find yours at https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon-footprint-calculator/carbon-by-birth-year/)
He seems cautious to commit to his own view on zonal pricing. It comes across in reading it as an injection of false balance? “It’s a bit hard, so maybe it’s not a good idea”. The likes of Octopus are biased in favour, but they’re bringing the answers to the difficult parts to remove the barriers.
June 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I take it back! They’ve fixed us up, so we’re back to being excited! Thanks team Octopus 👍
June 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I won tickets, but when I went to claim them it turned out they didn’t exist. Ts&Cs suggest that’s not how it should work… so what’s going on??
June 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Very good! Not terrible, but a bit patchy for me just over the border.
March 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
No, indeed, but you could upgrade yours if you wanted to.
March 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Didn’t understand, check 😂
March 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So I reckon you’re a bot, you didn’t read my post, or you didn’t understand my post. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
March 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Logical fallacy alert. That’s a false dichotomy. It doesn’t follow that because something isn’t perfect, it has no value at all. Scrutiny by reputable reviewers is much better than no review at all.
March 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Tesla have about 20% market share for EVs in the UK(?), so those would seem about right. New sales might be more telling as so many people seem to lease now, so their could be a lag in them appearing for sale.
March 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Interested to see how Tesla respond. Would be a shame for them to be sidelined because of politics/personality.
March 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Might be in the UK, but the current largest one I could find is in California at 3,000MWh. BYD are apparently planning one that will be 12,500 MWh!

electrek.co/2023/08/03/w...
The world’s largest battery storage system just got even larger
The Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility, the world's largest battery storage system, has been expanded to 750 MW/3,000 MWh.
electrek.co
March 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Wow, very good. We started strong but a lot of it dropped away. Much better here yesterday.
February 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Things might be different if gas/oil/coal heating also had to cover externalised costs like impacts to healthcare and climate.
February 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
UK gas distribution are actively planning for a transition to hydrogen and trialling on existing infrastructure. Maybe nobody has told them it’s probably a waste of time (and money). I guess it’s hard to accept the alternative that their business is coming to an end.
February 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I’m sure all your hard work will pay off! (and if not, blame it on them?! 😂)
February 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A different approach to stewarding over the last few years might have avoided this too. If fans think teams or drivers are being allowed to get away with too much, they become the villains. If they’re reprimanded, that goes away?
February 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Someone needs to ask Severn Trent why their price rises (claimed as needed for improvements) over the next 6yr seem to generate an additional ~£14BN, but they’re only giving examples of projects to the value of £243M, i.e., less than 2% of the total.
February 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Ahh, ok, I’d been trying to use the “Add info” option.
February 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM