Installing solar panels on your home or business is common in many European countries. But they really come into their own during energy crises.
“If you’ve got a solar roof on your home and you’ve got a battery then, depending on how much energy you can generate, you are substantially insulated from importing electricity,” explains Matthew Clayton, CEO of UK-based Thrive Renewables.
Dynamic tariffs are becoming more common in Europe. This is where the price of electricity varies throughout the day and night, with costs going up during peak periods, like dinner time, when households are using more.
This means that if you store up solar power during daylight hours, when the sun is at its strongest, then you can use that energy, rather than drawing it from the electricity grid, during the most expensive periods. “Your relationship with the grid is totally changed,” says Clayton.
You don’t minimise the risk of car death because you are way better putting in measures to reduce your risk of dying in a car crash than dying in some weird grid failure that happens once in a generation.
It’s about understanding risk. You can’t just say avoiding any risk for anything all the time is good.
You just chose a hill to die on. That a 1 in a million chance whatever the cost is worth it.
But moving closer to work, a WFH job, cycling, only getting things delivered to you house, taking the bus, walking. No that’s too much you have a seatbelt.
Yea well I have a blanket and a grid that has never gone for an extended period in my lifetime. I’ll be fine. I have been in more car crashes as an adult than I have been in blackouts. Car avoid is a much better exercise in spending money than grid back up.
Hell for grid back up a standalone batter or generator to run the fridge is a better spending of money. Or an electric car.
But again it’s your hill to die on so feel free.