Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡

Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET and Energy Institute, MD of UK Networks Services - UK’s leading Grid experts.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@au_tom_otive @ListerLawrence Also the 100% WDA is not as magic as it sounds. When the car is sold tax will be due on the residual value. Ultimately similar CT gets saved through ICE or EV when bought - or leased, without the cash outlay.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@mrhuggez @sinead_ryan @Tesco The smaller packets are cheaper per kg….

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@au_tom_otive Every time a use a public charger (which is rare as I have a big battery) I always have to set a charge limit becasue it takes me longer to go into the services, visit the toilet and buy a coffee than to get the charge I need.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

One of the people here understands that every day we trade off risk of black outs against cost (VOLL etc), and some people may give up some security for savings.

The other person does not seem to understand that.

[Greg Jackson @g__j]

@KathrynPorter26 I used the actual words "i'm not advocating for blackouts" 5 times.

I did point out that they happen at the local level in the UK quite frequently - and that it'd be good to give batteries to people who need continuous supply.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@JavierBlas @JavierBlas you were right…

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@allnewtomorrow @Jordan_W_Taylor They have produced many power points.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@EngineerLondon @DowningAm Criminal.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@admcollingwood @mmjukic @gigantictur The hardest part of a short two week war is the fist two years.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@JordanEVGuy @OctopusEnergy Depends on which on of the 14 DNO licence areas you are in. @OctopusEnergy have no control or say over that.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@LoftusSteve I really don’t get this argument.

It’s private capital that wants to explore and extract - if they want to take the risk it’s up to them.

Banning new drilling while planning to buy oil and gas for decades elsewhere is bonkers.

Balance of payments, jobs, income tax, NI etc.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@LoftusSteve But CCuS only only about 5 years away, it just needs many more billions of public money thrown at it.

A hydrogen powered Drax with CCuS is the dream - like a perpetual subsidy machine.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@au_tom_otive @kerbocharge Yea.

Lamp post charging sounds like a good idea until the realities are thought about.

We need solutions for those with no off street parking, but I don’t think this is it.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

Thinks an expensive distraction, despite what Ubitricity try to sell.

25 A cut outs, earthing issues, 30m apart, some on the back edge of the pavement etc.

Lots of public money was spent ‘upgrading’ PL columns, might as well install proper chargers. O&M costs very high too.

[Jordan - The EV Guy @JordanEVGuy]

This doesn’t look like much, but it changes everything.

What you’re looking at is an evpzee lamppost charger.

It is the smartest solution to one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption.

A standard street lamp, quietly turned into an EV charger.

No digging up roads, it is installed in just 30 minutes.

No huge infrastructure projects, a full street can be electrified in a matter of hours.

Manufactured and assembled in the UK and fully OCPP.

Using what’s already there.

For millions of people across the UK, especially those without driveways, this is the difference between “I can’t have an EV” and “actually…I can.”

It’s easy to overlook innovations like this because they’re not flashy.

No 350kW ultra-rapid chargers.

No massive charging hubs.

Just practical, scalable, everyday infrastructure doing exactly what it needs to do.

And that’s the point.

The EV transition will be be driven by everyone having the ability to charge when they need to.

Simple.

Effective.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@Iromg When you pay the owner £60 per bay per day…..

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@reporterboy So I am not sure why anyone really listens to them (although the polls show that even with the most unpopular government in history and the Conservative on the ropes, even then, no one does).

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@reporterboy Fair enough, but the missiles are are actually (for the UK) the very expensive and difficult bit.

The LDs also wanted to have less subs (so no CASD), supported the Royal Mail sell off, said nuclear was pointless because it would only generate in 2025 and ignored the post office

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

Came across this in Leavesden today – someone has converted the cupboard under the stairs into a bedroom, sleeping right next to the meter and consumer unit, which has the gas service behind it!

I don’t think @UKPowerNetworks will be interested.

All muggled up.

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@AdamDoran @OctopusEnergy @g__j Thanks, that is what I neeed up doing, charging happily now while they sort out some issue with BMW

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

How do I bump change my car @OctopusEnergy? The app has changed. I can’t seem to set the target and departure time now in the app, and the ‘bump’ button does nothing. But I need to charge my car now!

I have tried over riding in the BMW app.

@g__j

[Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & the Grid ⚡ @simoncgallagher]

@lotharmat @OctopusEnergy @g__j No chance.