How Tesla’s Powerwall carried me through Hurricane Ian
Back in 2017, I was in a home with solar panels, but no battery backup. Hurricane Irma passed overhead, and I found myself without power for 24-48 hours. We lost all of our food as a result. When the storm passed,
Hurricane Ian: When the power grid goes out, could solar and batteries power your home?
Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic winds and flooding are likely to bring long-lasting power outages to large parts of Florida. The storm is the latest in a line of hurricanes and extreme heat and cold events that have knocked out power to millions
Business and the energy crisis: Have the measures gone far enough?
The UK’s business sector could be on the verge of complete catastrophe and irreversible damage. Amid an energy crisis that has rocked Europe, particularly Britain, government and energy suppliers have scrambled to introduce support schemes to mitigate the impact
Under the skin: How an EV can cut your energy bills
EV owners sharing their home-generated energy reduces their cost of living, a study finds With the spectre of colossal electricity bills looming over us like some sort of fully charged Grim Reaper, there’s plenty of talk about how the
Octopus Energy doubles fixed export tariff amid high wholesale power prices
Octopus Energy has doubled its Fixed Outgoing tariff to help lower customers' bills as they head into winter. This will increase from 7.5p/kWh to 15p/kWh, with all customers on the tariff seeing their rate automatically changed from today (20 September). This
It will be ‘socially unacceptable’ for businesses not to have solar, says BeBa Energy
“It is going to become socially unacceptable for businesses to not to have solar on their roofs in the short to medium-term,” said Shaun Beattie, sales director of BeBa Energy, at the UK Solar Summit. With the growing need to
Electricity units set at 34.0p/kWh: Energy Price Guarantee details released by government
Following the official announcement of the energy bills freeze over the coming winter by Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday 8 September, the government has released the first details of how exactly it will work. From 1 October 2022, the Default Tariff
What does the Conservative Party really think about solar?
I spent some of August on trains across Europe, gazing out at vast swathes of parched earth, dwindled rivers and failing crops. Climate change was plainly in action across the entire continent. Then I glanced at social media to
Price cap set at £2,500 for two years as Truss unveils raft of measures to tackle energy crisis
The price cap is to be set at £2,500 for two years from October onwards, Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced as part of a range of measures designed to address the energy crisis. “Decades of short-term thinking on energy