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MSc. Sustainable Energy. Zero-carbon lifestyle. EV driver. RSPB Vol. Co-founder Electric Vehicle Association Cymru.

NE Wales, United Kingdom

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

My updated Household CO2 emissions data for 2023. Emissions reduced on previous year by 0.6 tCO2e, bringing controllable Net CO2 emissions to 0.3t below zero. Due to offset by renewable generation from my share in @RippleEnergy wind turbine, solar export & ditching gas for ASHP.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

On October 26th 2023, I had an Air source heat pump commissioned in my 95m2 1960’s three-bedroom semi-detached house in Flintshire, North Wales, replacing a mains gas central heating combi-boiler. The building has cavity wall insulation & A-rated double glazing. 🧵

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

The Gas meter was removed on 3rd November. With no standing charge for gas, solar, battery storage, @RippleEnergy wind turbine, ASHP & 100% renewable energy supplier @OctopusEnergy , my home is heated & powered using #zerocarbon generation & has no net cost #zerobills #fossilfree

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@huitcentdix9 You're very welcome, and that's exactly why I post these things. The negatives you hear are not backed-up by reality or are the result of poor installation.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

This chart shows how much less energy the heat pump uses compared to gas to deliver more heat. Ten yr av. gas use in November was 726 kWh, 653 kWh of heat at 90% efficiency. The ASHP used 308 kWh of electrical energy delivering 924 kWh of heat, assuming a conservative SCOP of 3.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

1 year

We don’t see this too often in the UK, solar generation sitting at the top. Something tells me another record might go today, the current max solar is 10148 MW. This will be beaten at around midday if the temperature doesn’t get too high.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

This is awesome, we can now generate more than 20GW of electricity from wind power. The record was broken today. @bobbyllew @SpeakSarahSpeak

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

The system design was tested in early December, with outside temps reaching -3.5C. The weather comp. increased flow temp. & radiator output, maintaining the internal temp. set at 19C. Thermal comfort has improved considerably, & the water cylinder is also heated twice/day.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

The 150L water cylinder was located in the spacious loft, and the big designer radiators downstairs look stunning!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

As all the radiators were undersized, some pipework needed relocating & was mostly microbore, & a hot water cylinder was required, we decided to renew the whole system with 22mm & 15mm copper pipework and new radiators to optimise efficiency and futureproof.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

I calculated the heat demand using dimensions and U-values of construction materials, and an air change rate of 1.5 Ach/hour. This gave a building heat demand of 3.9 kW at a design temp. of -3 external & 21 internal. The house is EPC-rated B.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

The installer @WallLag survey suggested a 6 kW ASHP. After discussion, using my 10-year gas demand data & degree days data, we concluded this could be reduced to 5 kW and still be slightly oversized for extreme cold events.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

1st full month of @RippleEnergy windfarm generated 334 kWh of electricity & paid me £32.21. My home & EV used 252 kWh from the grid with average electricity unit cost inc. VAT & Standing charges of 10p/kWh on @OctopusEnergy Go tariff, costing £25.20. £7 profit, 100% green. BOOM!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

This is awesome, my @RippleEnergy wind turbine in half a month paid for almost all my electricity on @OctopusEnergy go tariff for whole month. Mostly for 1000 miles in an EV & some in my home using cheap night rate. Zero emissions, almost zero cost. Thanks @SpeakSarahSpeak @g__j

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

Had another 1kW of solar PV fitted to the SW slope of the garage roof yesterday. My 10 year vision of a solar powered home & car, and an ecologically enriched carbon sequestering garden is another step closer. The bees are enjoying feeding on the flowering green roof again too.👍

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

@IoloWilliams2 @craig4monty I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, all of this sewage could be captured and used in anaerobic digesters to produce biogas and/or biomethane. @DwrCymru do this at Four Fords in Wrexham. No need to pollute whatsoever, & produce a carbon neutral fuel. #circulareconomy

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@AlanFresco4 It was £12.5k, £7.5k from gov grant. Remember each job is different & this was a complete new system, all pipework, rads etc. I also paid a bit more on top for the nice radiators. Most installs would be less in a similar property.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

My typical daily grid electricity consumption on @OctopusEnergy Go tariff. House battery charging 4hrs, EV charging 1hr during off-peak. House essentially off-grid for 20hrs by battery & solar. Usage paid for by share in @RippleEnergy wind turbine.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@Julford57 @huitcentdix9 A good start is to use a @_heatgeek recommended installer, if you have one locally. I didn't, but my installer has been fitting ASHP in social housing in my area for over ten years so that's why I chose them. I also spent over a year researching so I knew what I was doing!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

Winter gone, spring here, and this is what solar power & electricity storage battery looks like. 97% of solar generation used and stored today. @glynhudson @Zapaman @Openenergymon @centre_alt_tech

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

Britain's wildlife is in trouble. Over half our species are declining and many face extinction. We need #WilderNationalParks that can lead the way in tackling the nature and climate crises. Sign @RewildingB ’s petition for urgent government action.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@MarkHewitt1978 Yes it does, & an ASHP must supply both heating & hot water to receive the £7.5k gov grant. It doesn't mean you can't have one, you just need a big tank & HP will heat it for when you need it. You won't run out if you manage it properly.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

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@IanBarkerBFY It was £12.5k, £7.5k from gov grant. Remember each job is different & this was a complete new system, all pipework, rads etc. I also paid a bit more on top for the nice radiators. Most installs would be less in a similar property.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

For the second time in 8 days there is so much renewable energy being produced in the UK that it has sent the wholesale price of electricity negative. Through @octopus_energy agile tariff I can get paid to store surplus power in my EV and home batteries helping balance the grid.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

Awesome to have @AndyTorbet on @FullyChargedShw . This show is the new ‘Tomorrow’s World’ with presenters like Andy & @HelenCzerski . Thank you @bobbyllew for providing a programme of uplifting reality of C21st life & a sustainable future, which is not being shown on mainstream tv

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

The last 24 hours, house almost completely powered by battery and solar except for 1 kWh from the grid to power the electric shower (blue spike). Two loads of washing done, house powered & battery fully recharged by solar during today. Battery powering house last evening and now.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

1 year

Wow! The last 30 days has been awesome for solar. My 2.8 kWp system has powered my home, charged the house battery and charged the EV. The blue bars are the only two car charges from the grid. Those aside, I've only used 13 kWh from the grid for my home. @glynhudson 1/4🧵

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

6 years

@ecocars1 @bobbyllew @pluginadventure @KateFantom @She_sElectric @NissanEV_UK My 2014 24kWh leaf has done nearly 52,000 miles and still got all 12 bars, and never had a rapid charge problem! Oh, and probably saved around £7000 on fuel cost in four years, at least!👍

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

Logging my energy data this morning & thought I'd do a little analysis on solar generation. Over nine years, nice to see the system is showing no degradation. Although there appears to be a trend towards increasing spring solar & declining summer solar irradiance (blue line).

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

I love this graphic on my @RippleEnergy dashboard. The wind turbine is producing close to peak output, my share is producing nearly double my home grid import of 887 W including heat from ASHP. The other half being exported to the grid, plus I'm getting paid for all of it.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

6 months ago📅 @borisjohnson said "It's 1 minute to midnight on that doomsday clock" at COP26. Today the UK STILL has over 40 new fossil fuel projects in the pipeline, including the Cambo oil field & Whitehaven coal mine. Stop hitting snooze⏰ We need action now. #WakeUpBoris

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

Wind power absolutely smashing it today, showing gas turned down further than usual, perhaps a sign that at today’s price it’s economically worth turning some off? @OctopusEnergy agile price below zero p/kWh for 3 overnight periods, & just 6 gCO2 in my region tonight. Awesome.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

⁦ @glynhudson ⁩ ⁦ @RichMWPHS ⁩ ⁦ @bobbyllew ⁩ ⁦ @KateFantom ⁩ ⁦ @ecocars1 ⁩ After 5 yrs & just under 65k miles, I’ve had to return my 2014 24 kWh leaf. Just 1 bar lost on battery & MOT revealed only 2 mm removed from brake pads!! What a car! Next up i3 120 Ah

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

Not a perfect match, but fairly good, these bar charts show my @OctopusEnergy supplied grid electricity consumption against my share of my @RippleEnergy wind turbine over the last week. Electricity supply does not come greener, cleaner and cheaper than this.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

@ReicherStephen The climate change scientists have been treated this way since 2010, expect nothing more from a Tory government!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

1 year

Pleased common sense prevailed today as I received planning consent from @FlintshireCC for siting an air-source heat pump. No more gas will be burned here, & everything will be electrified. @glynhudson @TrystanLea @bobbyllew @sarah_go_green @Zapaman @OctopusEnergy @RippleEnergy

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

So, what century are we in? Just looked out of the window and was taken back to my childhood in the 1970s by the vision of a coal sack delivery van. For the sake of future generations, can the UK please drag itself out of the past.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@ParisDaguerre @RippleEnergy @OctopusEnergy You may, it was £12.5k, £7.5k from gov grant. Remember each job is different & this was a complete new system, all pipework, rads etc. I also paid a bit more on top for the nice radiators. Most installs would be less in a similar property.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

@Penrhynbirder @jonniprice @rspbconwy @PhilGatley sometimes the wildlife in my garden makes it really difficult to get those little jobs done!!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

More bum wash in the right wing media about electric cars. @Telegraph there won’t be a ‘waste battery mountain.’ The batteries will last at least 10 years in the car, another 10 in home battery systems and then 100% of the valuable elements will be recycled into new batteries.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

Considering nothing else but grid electricity in my local area, my home is being heated and powered by 98% zero carbon sources right now. Just saying. #sustainabletransition #NetZero

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

1 year

.⁦ @Penrhynbirder ⁩ ⁦ @jonniprice ⁩ ⁦ @AliceMCousens ⁩ ⁦ @CanhamJasmine ⁩ ⁦ @IoloWilliams2 ⁩ ⁦ @RSPBConwy ⁩, pink-footed geese flying over Hawarden airfield to roost out on the Dee estuary this evening. Turn the sound up!😃👍

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

So proud @SpeakSarahSpeak @RippleEnergy to be one of the lucky owners, pioneers & early adopters of a share in the UK's first consumer owned wind farm Graig Fatha. Anyone who follows me is welcome to use my referral code to invest in the next at Kirk Hill.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

Thought I'd put these together in my own chart, shows the comparison much clearer!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

@GeorgeMonbiot Hi George, I agree with what you say so eloquently as always, these are the stark realities. However, there is still hope and time, and I believe at the end of this #COP26 the activists & young people will not be satisfied. People will change our course, not politicians.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

Thanks to @octopus_energy agile smart tariff I was paid last night to store surplus wind power generation in my EV and @power_vault home energy storage battery. Thanks to @glynhudson @TrystanLea at @Openenergymon for creating this App which shows my usage against the Agile price.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

House powered, 1000 miles in the BMWi3 EV, 100% zero-carbon, 91% off-peak consumption, at a cost of £2.19 including VAT & standing charges. This is how to do electricity in the 21st Century. @bobbyllew @SpeakSarahSpeak @sarah_go_green @glynhudson @PaulArYFfin @centre_alt_tech

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

6 years

⁦ @Penrhynbirder ⁩ ⁦ @PhilGatley ⁩ Hawarden airfield is just full of surprises, today brought this red-legged partridge!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

A big thank you to my MP @MarkTamiMP for his response to this, supporting; an amendment to the Fisheries Bill preventing supertrawlers fishing in Marine Protected Areas; redistributing the UK fishing quota to smaller vessels; the introduction of Highly Protected Marine Areas.

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Reminder: Supertrawlers have been fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas for over 7 and a half months this year. Tell your MP to sign an open letter to the government calling for a ban in our protected waters. > <

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

Just joined @WoodlandTrust . My membership will help them #StandUpForTrees and woods in the UK.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

1 year

@GordonRogersUK We’re not relying on imports, rather choosing to use their low-carbon, low-cost generation to reduce our gas generation, emissions and cost. It’s a connected system which works both ways, collaboration which actually builds resilience.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

Thought I’d share my personal efforts to reduce carbon emissions over the last decade with you all.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@ojeastwood It's in the thread but they are @WallLag based in Mold in Flintshire and they cover all of North Wales.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

This is a brilliant and informative thread for anyone considering an Air-source heat pump install. It gives a great insight into what is involved in & outside the house. Thanks for sharing @techpoodle .

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Rachael 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

I'm going to make this a heat pump install thread to document the progress of the installation. First up, the base has been installed today. What was once a bed of bedraggled bushes/flowers which has been transformed into a sturdy base with drainage for the condensate. 1/2

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

My updated Household CO2 emissions data for 2021. There's a slight increase in total CO2 of 0.2 tons shown in the fingerprint due to car travel returning to normal levels & an increase in carbon intensity of grid electricity compared to 2020 levels.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

Ok @ElecHighway @GRIDSERVE_HQ I think what you're doing in the UK for EV charging is awesome. BUT, today you caused me a problem. Three of five chargers on my route in North Wales were down, Two were in use. I lost an hour on my journey trying to connect to then waiting to charge

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

One of the benefits of a green roof is that it insulates against extreme heat. These images show the internal & external temps. right now with the sun directly on the roof. I’m sure my neighbours internal temp is much higher without any protection.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

⁦ @Penrhynbirder ⁩ ⁦ @jonniprice ⁩ good signs on Llandegla moors. After this weeks rain many pools have appeared, likely due to good management work by ⁦ @NatResWales ⁩, this had frogspawn in it. Also wheatear, stonechat, skylark, mpipit, buzzard, kestrel & bgrouse.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

Probably the most important policy lever in reducing carbon emissions is the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive, in particular with respect to heat pumps, a clean replacement for gas boilers. This is ending in March 2022. Is there a replacement for it @ofgem @beisgovuk ?

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@LexC2618 @AlanFresco4 The installer applies for it and removes that from your invoice before you pay the final balance on completion of works.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@Colin_Birchall Yes, they added some more solar and fitted a new EV charger for me last year. I think they sub-out the cavity wall insulation now though. Give them a call, I'd recommend them for the things they've done for me.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

Cracking view today from Moel Fammau across the Vale of Clwyd to the snow dusted Clocaenog forest & Brenig wind farms. Snowdonia was sadly hidden by low cloud.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

6 years

@SianWeather @IoloWilliams2 @AlunCairns @GOVUK @TidalLagoon Let’s build a smaller lagoon just for Wales then. Wales can build generation plants of up to 45 MegaWatts without central government approval!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

@JohnH0807 @RippleEnergy @OctopusEnergy Based on receiving £30 per month 8.33 years. The wind farm will generate for 25 years+. So I've bought at least 25 years of cheap electricity for the price of 8.3 years. However, I don't concern myself with payback times, I do this to get stuff done, doing nothing gets us nowhere

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

@glynhudson Great thread Glyn! I have monitoring & display envy! 😂 You will now spend the year working out different regimes through the seasons to find what works best for your situation & the grid. The flexibility of a battery gives the consumer complete control of their power use. Nice!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

Wow, UK wind power absolutely bossing electricity supply right now and for the last few days. Awesome! House powered, heated with ASHP, and car fuelled all by the wind when my share of ⁦ @RippleEnergy ⁩ Graig Fatha wind turbine is considered too.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

1 year

Another day of sun, charging the EV from solar only. Over the last four days I have put over 100 miles of charge into the Hyundai Kona EV in this way, no cost, no carbon emissions, no pollution, no grid use.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

@glynhudson I’m guessing this is yet another comparison which has completely ignored the colossal carbon emissions produced by oil extraction, transportation, refinement and storage for petrol and diesel. Ev’s are even greener than this suggests.

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1 year

This Rhagium bifasciatum, sometimes called the two-banded longhorn beetle, landed on my head today at ⁦ @RSPBConwy ⁩. What a cool little critter ⁦ @jonniprice ⁩ ⁦ @cofnod ⁩.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

So using solar power & @power_vault home energy storage battery to power my home & using @octopus_energy agile tariff for grid electricity to charge my EV by 40%, my electricity cost for last 30 days was £3.75 for grid consumption of 69.5 kWh. Recorded by @Openenergymon agile app

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

Hi @bobbyllew @FullyChargedDan . I have been a follower of fully charged show since the very first episode, I am also a patreon supporter of the show. I have an idea that I hope you might be interested in, it concerns home batteries. I wondered if I could DM either of you with it?

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

7 years

A very showy water rail at @rspbconwy just now in the shallow lagoon.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

@glynhudson @TrystanLea just for info, couple of conclusions from my thesis on home solar energy storage, 84% reduction of peak time electricity (7am to midnight) & 91% of solar generation used on-site. 1.8 kWp solar with 4kWh grid-connected battery.👍

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

6 years

@centre_alt_tech Wales needs much greater ambition, Scotland’s energy infrastructure is admirable regarding wind, and more recently electric car charging. Dundee’s EV charging hubs are what Wales needs in strategic locations. Both inspiration and opportunity exist, come on wales!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

6 years

@BBCSport Is that the race of the past where animals are run to the point of exhaustion and some die for so called human entertainment? By ‘the past’ I mean when people didn’t know better, similar to grouse shooting & fox hunting for fun. We are in the 21st century not the 19th!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

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Furthermore, broken, old, badly maintained chargers only serve to fuel an anti-EV narrative that needs no help. By not upgrading these chargers you are complicit in stalling EV adoption. I hope you're listening @toddington_h

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So my home is being powered & heated, & my car fuelled by almost zero-carbon local grid supplied electricity this evening. How about that!😃👍

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

@sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy Not all energy suppliers are created equal! @OctopusEnergy are absolutely awesome!👏

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

The EV community in North Wales deserve an explanation as to why you have not upgraded the chargers on the A55 expressway. There needs to be more chargers at these sites too. You have been asked this often, please explain why you have neglected this region, it's not acceptable

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

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It’s all at , the next farm reservations close at midnight May 3rd. If you fancy it use my code to sign up which is for £25. Also, if you need to switch to octopus energy to benefit my code is for £50.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

@raimonick @octopus_energy @g__j I know, great isn't it?! For the month of May I powered my home and charged the EV for 170 miles for £7.33, including £6 standing charges. Power your house and EV with solar PV, @power_vault battery & @octopus_energy agile tariff for an entire month for £1.33. #greenfuture

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@h21_antony R32 Ecodan.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

6 years

@Penrhynbirder Another ‘tipping point’ on this subject screaming we must act individually to reduce carbon emissions and why my endeavour to be zero carbon is relentless. My home now powered by solar 24/7 with the addition of a @power_vault battery storage system.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

⁦ @Penrhynbirder ⁩ ⁦ @jonniprice ⁩ ⁦ @RSPBConwy ⁩ this juvenile Robin has learned to follow my robot lawn mower as it disturbs invertebrates in the grass. In fact, all the robins in my garden do this. The mower is almost silent, autonomous & charged by solar power.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@Diving_Dxb @RippleEnergy @OctopusEnergy No, not if you own the asset that exports more green electrons into the grid than you import from it.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

2 years

Trying a different regime this summer to make better use of exported solar power. My rooftop array is SE facing, so I am now turning off the battery in the early morning so my excess solar powers my neighbours as they start their day.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

My updated Household CO2 emissions data for 2020. There is a slight reduction in total CO2 of 0.2 tons shown in the fingerprint due to less car travel during lockdown 1. Personally controllable emissions at home = 1ton/year, a 76% reduction from my 1998 baseline year.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

⁦ @centre_alt_tech ⁩ ⁦ @RichMWPHS ⁩ ⁦ @glynhudson ⁩ these new houses have just been built across from my home. Are these low carbon? Solar power & hot water? Super insulated with ASHP? Green roofs? Building this carbon emitting rubbish must stop ⁦ @FlintshireCC ⁩

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

Had a conversation today with a dealer about getting a new electric vehicle. Told him I had driven EVs for 8 years. I still got the EVs are rubbish at every point in the conversation, hybrids are best. Listen to these muppets at your expense!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

After #COP26 I decided I must do more. Subscribed to @EC_magazine . My food delivery supplier @sainsburys came joint bottom with @Tesco on ethical and environmental issues. So I've ditched them for @AbelandCole who scored best for food delivery, and @coopuk for drop-in purchases.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

5 years

@BineStock @david_mullens Half of us do!!!!!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

@baldy07 @brooktop68 @FullyChargedDan Totally agree, no mention of the use of cobalt by the fossil fuel industry over the past 30 years to desulphurise petrol.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

1 year

Solar power provided 127 kWh of zero cost, zero pollution & zero carbon charge for the car. The Hyundai Kona has been averaging over 7 miles/kWh, so that equates to 933 miles of driving. I've driven 669 miles over the month. @bobbyllew @KateFantom @ecocars1 @EVACymru 4/4.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

7 years

So much more than birds at @rspbconwy like this beautiful azure damselfly.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

10 months

@sicabc77 @cjb_twit @Diving_Dxb @RippleEnergy @OctopusEnergy This is my electricity demand right now, and my wind power generation. So please refrain from essentially calling me a liar.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

6 years

⁦ @Penrhynbirder ⁩ ⁦ @PhilGatley ⁩ ⁦ @rspbconwy ⁩ quite a surprise to see two fledgling blackbirds in the garden today! This one came to have a look at me!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

6 years

@GeorgeMonbiot @ArrivaTW @networkrail Because growing sheep is more important than anything else in Wales, obviously! It’s not the least forested country in Europe for nothing! Shameful.

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

4 years

@rspbconwy @Penrhynbirder @jonniprice @PhilGatley lockdown garden update, several cinnabar moths around today(now a resident species), 2nd brood of sparrows in two boxes, new nest in 3rd box, fledgling robin and dunnocks seen & 2 thriving bumble bee nests(white & buff-tailed).

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

3 years

@centre_alt_tech It was great to see tutors and fellow students again this evening after such a long time! The CAT family is awesome and continues to grow, bringing with it the change we need to see across the globe. So proud to be a part of it. Well done to all who graduated!

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

1 year

Utterly disgraceful, another reckless action from the UK government. Climate Change Action Failure, pure and simple.

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Dr Paul Dorfman

1 year

'Rishi Sunak has quietly scrapped the Government’s net zero pledge to pass a law banning coal power generation in Britain.'

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Paul Martin🌍🇺🇦

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@HorizonCSafaris @KateFantom @bobbyllew after 3 years & 35k miles my 24kwh leaf was showing 105 miles range this a.m.

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