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Container sized power banks are becoming much more common working with the Megawatt chargers. Other countries have stipulated all car parks over 80 spaces have solar canopies to help local generation. Costs are plummeting for LFP batteries and sub $20 per KWh coming soon down from current $50 to $40.

Both the speed of charging and the cable tie both have solutions and just a casevof UK rolling out what other countryes are already doing. BYD has charging as quick as using a fuel hose for an ICE vehicle ie 1 to 1.5 MW so only takes a handful of minutes to get mostly of the battery charged. Induction charging with loops in the ground are already being used in some even European countries. Most pirsuits use radios to block the road ahead.

An ICE car at 140 mph will be getting about one eighth of the mpg that it would get at 70 mph so well down in single figures mpghebce these pursuits rarely last more than half hour when in combination with tge radio ahead abd road block. At indicated 155 my Octavia VRS was probably doing about 6 mpg. Not quite at James May's 12 minutes at 250 mph for the 26 gallon tank for the Veyron but all cars gulp fuel at full chat. Only hybrids and EVs with their regen can go big distances on much less fuel putting back massive the amounts of energy can put back in the system as with the new F1 hybrid cars and even more so with GEN4 Formula e cars.

They can get the 20% VAT back and I don't know whether there is deals that public charging supplier does. I seem to be being offered more and more public charging offers, notably BE EV which i gather is now largely owned by Octopus and now the MER network has been integrated. I just do so little public charging but might get for a month or 3 for summer driving as it can pay for itself in one or 2 charges.

In logistics, particularly air freight, there us massive fear of mobile phones, tablets, power banks. Plans have been turned vack mid journey back to home airport due to finding these devices on board. We do take extraordinary procedures with all batteries above quite a small size. In operation I have found these home solar battery invertors very well made, well impressed with their biuld quality and BMS. With all the high levels of sunshine we gave had over the last 4 months I am impressed witn devices fro. £14 to £500 how good they are when they hit 100% charge from the solar. Fan kick in, charging shuts off. The Chinese ones I have bought have all been very impressive with just the Allpower lithium NMC just stopping working. I expect in most cases ie bulk exports China is careful to allow good quality export like Japan did 50 or so years ago. Postal is a leaky environment but it is being made uneconomical by new tariffs so will likely be strangled off.

Tariff i am on ie Agile, has no requirement for having an EV and rewards use when electricity is cheap and demands higher average payment when electricity ie expensive which is also when the dirty fossil fuelled Peaker plants com online. Some of my battery solar invetor devices are very small and look like a torch or indescribable box and since most people's houses are dotted with mobile phones and tablets that are the more dangerous lithium he nkn LFP devices and restriction on have such batteries and invertors us really a nonsense. We fave tebs of millions with "Balcony" solar all over Europe, probabky hundreds of millions throughout the world and fof nany it is essential to maintain life in poor countries.

As Martin Lewis constantly states the non fixed and non Time of Use tariffs, ie where you pay the single rate at the cap rate, are PANTs. The thought of paying 30p per KWh all the time for electricity is horrible. On Octopus GO i had got my average down to 11p per KWh average but then Middle East war got that tariff up much higher sobswutched to Agile and last bill was averaging 15p pet KWh but I think I can do better than that. Effectively halfing my bill if I did not do something about it. All helps with the running costs of the EVs. Investment in my own generation and storage is the other plan in motion. No expensive roof solar for me or TESLA power wall battery setup for me. Panels bolted to frames where I can and tri function so called solar battery invertor devices which can take in solar energy, store if abd then output electricity for lighting, power fridge freezer etc. These devices also useful for when, like we just had, loss of electricity during power cuts during the thunder storms. Buy wisely, Amazon Prime and events like Black Friday etc best time to buy. Buy Lithium Iron Phosphare rThef than Ithium NMC as you should get 10 years use rather than 3 with NMC. Next battery device I buy will have the full 4 KW output to power anything but waiting for prices to fall further. Mobile batteries of 16 KWh looking interesting and payback looks like 2 or 3 rears and not the 5 or 10 until recently and with the EVs acting as massive mobile stores of electricity when prices go low, zero or negative !

Today I am getting electricity for less than zero pence per KWh, ie I am being paid to take it. Would I selm it back to the Grid at 30p per KWh but would I agree to sell it back at 10p per KWh, probably not. There is the rub. Whilst even my 40 KWh Renault 5 can do 11 KWs thru its Bidirectional onboard DC to AC invertor would i want the degradation to my battery for a poultry 10 p per KWh, probably no. I thought my 40 KWh was going to be LFP but it is Lithium NMC so not as robust in charge-discharge cycles. New Twingo is going to be LFP and noe many other EVs are LFP rather than NMC. Not sure my newish Indra wallbox is bidirectional, pretty sure it is not so they need to be converted and I imagine that is not cheap.

Octopus just released its slot electricity prices on its Agile TOU tariff. 11 hours of negative priced electricity tomorrow 7th of June 2026 ! The truth is I love having electric cars and the savings with running them ! Home running costs will benefit from the negative prices too.

I thought it was only Drax that did this these days. Green washing power station as with "sustainable" hydrocarbon fuels. Economics are driving the rapid move to renewables and with government investments in nuclear to provide reliable energy in case of rebewables not being available.

Wood pellet are counted as renewable somewhat oddly. Sea transport is very low carbon transport compared to air, rail and road. Ocean cargo ships ate moving to cleaner fuels such as LNG which reduces CO2 abd there are otger moves to even cleaner and lower carbon se transport. J would like to see no burning of anything, no supposedly sustainable fuel for air or road as it is still returning carbon in to the air even if it wad carbon from organic matter that took CO2 from the air. Only renewable or nuckear though hydrogen, ammonia does have some interesting possibilities. Just so unnecessary when renewables can provide the power we need for living except on rare circumstances.

There is going to be a place for fossil fuelled power generation but really just as a backup which is what that energy can be good at considering its current cost and pollution. There could be weather conditions and depleted battery storage that means we need gas generators to kick in but the plan is that will be rare occasions. There could be massive volcanic activity that diminishes solar production. Like China the UK should and will get plenty of solar and wind but we may need that in a calm winter. I was surprised on a visit to Hinkley point to see Olympus gas turbines to vack up the nuclear power plants. Af sea we had several diesel generator to backup the diesecon unit generating free power from the main diesel engine's exhaust where we generated super heated steam for electrical generation. Always have plenty of backup for critical energy supplies and I have no issue with them being fossil fuelled but normal electricity supply should be all zero carbon and good to see almost every country in the world, bar USA, seemed to be onboard with this agenda, even oil producers in the Middke East etc.

US network ABC News just did a good Youtube on Chinese renewables. Below is the data abd details of the transition to renewables and nuclear. ABC Video mentions the Chinese coal fired power stations but their days are numbered. Good source of changes in all the types of energy is the International Energy Agency. https://www.iea.org/ Last Global Energy Review attached which gives good summary though is already 2 months old and matters changing fast. (Exojoules are 10 to the power of 18, had to look that up.). Key findings  All major energy fuels and technologies grew in 2025 – but at very different rates. Overall global energy demand growth slowed to 1.3%, just below the average for the previous decade. Slower economic growth and slower growth in energy-intensive industries in some regions, lower cooling demand, and faster efficiency improvements all contributed to slower demand growth.  Solar PV, the largest single source of growth, met more than 25% of higher demand, followed by natural gas, which contributed 17%. This was the first time on record that a modern renewable source contributed the largest share of global energy demand growth. Demand for oil, natural gas and coal all grew in 2025, but at a slower rate than in 2024. Low-emissions sources combined – solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower and other renewables – contributed nearly 60% of the growth in global demand.  Demand growth in the United States rose to its second highest level since 2000, excluding post-recession rebound years, boosted by strong electricity demand from data centres, robust industrial growth and colder temperatures. The People’s Republic of China (hereafter, “China”) accounted for the largest overall share of global energy demand growth, but at 1.7% its growth rate slowed sharply due to the rapid growth of renewables and efficiency improvements.  Demand for electricity grew at well over twice the rate of energy demand, reaffirming that the world has entered the Age of Electricity. Growth of nearly 3% remained above the average of 2.8% over the last decade, but was slower than in 2024, largely due to one-off factors such as lower demand for cooling in India and Southeast Asia. Electricity demand growth was again driven by a wide range of end uses in buildings and industry. Although only contributing a small share of this total growth, demand from electric vehicles and data centres grew rapidly. In the United States, data centres made up half of all growth in electricity use.  Oil demand growth slowed further in 2025, increasing by 0.65 million barrels per day (mb/d) or 0.7%, down from 2024’s already muted 0.75 mb/d of growth. The increase in both years, which was in line with IEA projections, remained well below the average annual rise between 2010 and 2019 of 1.4 mb/d. The slower increase mainly reflected weaker growth in petrochemical feedstocks, notably in China, while continued growth of electric vehicles kept oil demand for road transport in check. Electric car sales continued their rapid growth, climbing over 20% to more than 20 million units – around one quarter of new car sales in 2025.  Gas demand growth slowed markedly in 2025, rising by around 1%, down from the 2.8% recorded in 2024, amid relatively high prices in the first half of the year. Incremental demand was largely concentrated in the United States and European Union, supported by colder winter weather, and in the Middle East, where gas use in the power sector grew quickly. By contrast, Asia Pacific demand grew at its weakest pace since the 2022 energy crisis.  Coal demand in 2025 grew only modestly above 2024 levels, rising by around 0.4%. In the United States, gas-to-coal switching and strong growth in electricity demand supported a 10% rise in coal use, reversing the trend of recent declines. Coal demand was flat in China: strong renewables growth pushed down coal use in electricity generation, while in industry, lower coal use in steel and cement production was offset by increased use for chemicals. Coal demand for power generation decreased in India, mostly due to an early, strong and long monsoon.  The increase in generation from renewables and nuclear power in 2025 exceeded the total growth in electricity supply. The 2025 increase in solar PV of 600 terawatt-hours (TWh) was the largest-ever electricity generation increase by any source in one year, outside of periods of post-crisis recovery. The rise in solar PV alone met around 70% of electricity generation growth. Renewables combined now virtually match total global generation from coal. In the European Union, the share of solar PV and wind reached 30% in 2025, surpassing that of fossil fuels for the first time. Electricity generation from natural gas and from nuclear power continued to grow at the global level in 2025.  Annual global renewable capacity additions rose to a record 800 gigawatts (GW), of which solar contributed 75%. Battery storage was the fastest growing power technology: capacity additions rose by around 40% in 2025 to reach almost 110 GW, more than the highest-ever annual capacity additions from natural gas. In addition, construction started on over 12 GW of nuclear power capacity in 2025.  Global growth in energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions slowed further in 2025, rising by around 0.4%. Emissions from China fell due to the boom in renewables, structural declines in energy-intensive industry, and overall slower demand growth. India’s energy-related CO2 emissions were flat for the first time since the 1970s, largely due to cyclical effects from a strong monsoon combined with structural growth in renewables. A cold winter and higher natural gas prices pushed up emissions in advanced economies. Due to these trends, emissions from advanced economies grew faster (+0.5%) than those from emerging market and developing economies (+0.3%) for the first time since the 1990s.  The rollout of clean energy technologies since 2019 avoided more than 35 exajoules of annual fossil fuel demand in 2025, equivalent to around 7% of global fossil fuel use annually. Deployment of solar PV, wind, nuclear, electric cars and heat pumps since 2019 also prevents 3 billion tonnes of CO2 annually, or around 8% of global emissions. The avoided coal demand (around 800 million tonnes of coal equivalent) equates to more than the entire coal use of India in 2025. Estimated avoided gas demand (over 260 billion cubic metres) is equivalent to almost half the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. GlobalEnergyReview2026.pdf

Apparently the UK has a million jobs connected to Renewables but this is dwarfed by China and other countries who have now done much to insulate themselves from the Middle East energy crisis. Australia particularly hax gone from fossil fuel luddites to strongly embracing renewable in a few shory years meaning the have managed to get rid of most of their fossil fuel poverty station as well as now going past 20 % new cars being EVs despite the sheef size of their country. Numerous countries round the world implementing massive solar farms as well as individuals setting up their own solar setups as the price of energy from fossil fuels make the economics even more starkly different. Enjoyed my slots of negative and zero cost electricity today. Charged one of the EVs, heated the water for tonight's usage and more EV charging starts at midnight with prices below 10 P per KWh. Running 3 EVs, doing more than 26k miles a year between them, equivalent to more than the circumference of the Earth and stll paying less than £2k a year to run a domestic home and the EVs is a testament to renewables economics when i use to spend more than £5 k a year on fossil fuel for our cars. Happy place and Trump should get a sarcastic medal for massively pushing forward the move from fossil to renewables.

Orkney about to ve collected to UK National Grid. Orkney great place to generate supply electricity to feed in to Scotland and rest of UK as well as make the Orkney Grid more robust. Orkney has solar, tidal and wind i gather and backup diesel generator which i presume they might consider retiring but then again if cheap to keep as standby to the new mainland interlink then why not keep. Further progress to integrating ever larger territories which should bring prices down and further EV adoption.