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\"DSC_4304\"<\/a>A 1oo homes and 150 businesses have been linked together in Cornwall as a mini virtual power plant.\u00a0 On first reading about this I couldn’t see anything new.\u00a0 After all nearly a million people throughout the UK act as a mini virtual power plant, including us. \u00a0 This excludes those with hydro systems or small wind systems etc.\u00a0 This is a lot of\u00a0 mini virtual power plant nationwide.<\/p>\n

However on further reading this is<\/em> new.\u00a0 National grid are modelling the output of the 250 participants as though they were a larger power plant.\u00a0 The 250 taking part are not linked in any formal sense either physically or financially.\u00a0 National grid are studying how they use their energy and in particular demand management.\u00a0 So for example an ice cream manufacturer would switch its freezers off for a short while at peak periods.\u00a0 It can do so without affecting the safety of the product.\u00a0 In the houses some that are fitted with batteries, how the people who live in them use energy can be assessed.\u00a0 For example do people use their washing machines at midday, or when the sun is at its brightest?<\/p>\n

National grid are now catching up with the way things are going.\u00a0 In the future whilst the grid will still have very large power plants (e.g. offshore wind) it will be made up of millions of tiny generators with electricity flying around in all directions.\u00a0 Understanding who these mesh together is a vital task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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