Showing posts with label reduce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reduce. Show all posts

Friday, March 14, 2014

MyELifeNow : 2 years and 300,000 + visits, thanks ! What I did and what you can do too !

Started two years ago to talk about what I do to use less energy, pollute less, I hope I have reached many people and will reach even more in the future

Thanks to all of you, followers and one time visitors ...



You too can do all this:
- Change all your home light bulbs to LED
- Install an Energy Monitor to see how much Electricity you are using
- Change your ICE car for an Electric car, the LEAF is a very good one (3 years without a single battery problem)
- Get an Electric Scooter: Vectrix VX-1 or BMW C-Evolution (coming to market in May)
- Change your gas/fuel heating system for a Heat Pump, you will get Air Conditioning with that
- Install Solar on your Roof to use the Generated Electricity
- Use most of your Generated Energy by Storing it for later use with my DIY ESS Kits
- Use High Speed Train instead of Air Planes , TGV here gets you to French Riviera from Paris in 3h only
- .... there are many others ways to improve .... find your own


Wednesday, January 30, 2013

How to Solar Power Your Home / House #2 - How to save energy / electricity for solar power

Martin Lorton just released the second part of his video series called "How to Solar Power your Home" and it is, like the first episode, very instructive; He goes into details on home electrical appliances energy consumption and tell us how to reduce them before looking into the sizing of your future solar system ...

How to make your home more energy efficient ready for solar power. Solar geysers, heat pumps, efficient pool pumps, LED lighting...and more...

Martin starts by writing down the Power used by each appliance in his home and multiplies it by the duration it operates => that gives the Energy used; Adding all the appliances energy consumptions, he gets the overall energy usage


Then he goes around the house to show us what he did to save energy, and here in the kitchen shows LED lighting that has replaces the regular fluorescent lights that were  used before => 3 times more efficient


Then, outisde, his pool pump has been replaced by a more efficient and programmable one, running most of the time in economy mode, saving energy, and sometimes turning faster


Then onto the roof, he add installed a solar geyser - solar water heater - that is gving hot water for free in summer for 5 months, and that needs supplement of heat brought by the heating element in other seasons, especially winter


This solar geyser has also a programmable control unit / display panel


After all this, he returns to his office, and shows us, on the paper agin, the energy savings applied to each appliance, and the overall energy use reduced by more than half ! This is for sure where everybody has to start before considering a solar system


To measure instant power, current, and energy on an appliance, it is good to use this cheap Kill A Watt meter that will show you all these figures and help you see what is going on in your house

Monday, January 7, 2013

EVTV Friday Show - December 28, 2012

- Speedster Nippon heating and cooling issues
- Autoblock AMP legacy gauge driver for State of Charge



Jack has a great idea and wants to replace income tax witn an Energy Tax, based on how much energy people use; That would definetely push people to reduce their energy usage / consumption to pay less tax and then solve some global warming problems ... BTW this is what Denmark has done and 2/3 of the price per kWh is taxes


Honda Hybrid is a good base for full Electric Drive convsersions


RechargeCar AutoBlock Amp tested in the battery lab



Speedster Nippon



Cooling gear installed


and AutoBlock Amp from RechargeCar for the fuel gauge

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Delphine BATHO launches electric interruptibility for French Grid security






Paris, December 29, 2012


Delphine BATHO, Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy has signed a decree making interruptibility possible, published today in the Official Journal.
Pursuant to Article L321-19 of the Enegry Code, it allows RTE (French grid operator), in case of serious and imminent threat to the security of the electric network, to use the interruptible capacities of its customers, in exchange of a fee.





This decree allows us to anticipate a possible saturation of the grid.

From an economic perspective, it is a measure of solidarity between companies and individuals. Through the usage rate of public electricity networks all consumers will pay sites capable of interrupting instantaneously. The cost to consumers is tens of cents per year. These sites will interrupt their usage at RTE's request within 5 seconds for a period of 15 minutes to one hour.





For approved sites, interruptible capacity will be between 60 MW and 300 MW. Currently, those directly interested in the device are particularly sites in the chemical industry and aluminum. The signing of the decree has two purposes: to face instantaneously to any saturation of the grid, and at the same time, allow businesses electro-intensive economic develop the ability to stop.

Press release

Source: Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development & Energy



French version:


Delphine BATHO, ministre de l'Écologie, du Développement durable et de l'Énergie a signé un arrêté rendant possible l'interruptibilité, publié ce jour au Journal officiel. 

Cette disposition, prise en application de l'article L321-19 du Code de l'énergie prévoit que RTE peut, en cas de menace grave et imminente sur la sécurité du réseau, avoir recours aux capacités interruptibles de ses clients, en échange d'une rémunération. 

Cet arrêté permet d'anticiper une éventuelle saturation du réseau électrique. 
Du point de vue économique, il s'agit d'une mesure de solidarité entre les entreprises et les particuliers. A travers le tarif d'utilisation des réseaux publics d'électricité l'ensemble des consommateurs rémunère les sites capables de s'interrompre instantanément. Le coût pour les consommateurs est de l'ordre de quelques dizaines de centimes d'euros par an. En contrepartie, les sites s'engagent à interrompre, à la demande de RTE, leur consommation d'électricité dans les 5 secondes suivant la demande, pour une durée de 15 minutes à une heure. 

Pour les sites agréés, la capacité interruptible sera comprise entre 60 MW et 300 MW. Actuellement, les acteurs directement intéressés par le dispositif sont notamment des sites de l’industrie de la chimie et de l’aluminium. La signature de l'arrêté poursuit deux buts : faire instantanément face à une éventuelle saturation du réseau électrique et, dans le même temps, permettre aux  entreprises électro-intensives de valoriser économiquement cette capacité à s’interrompre.  


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