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Re:West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capaci... by tpxl on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:26AM (#32262577)
City dense will never work since skyscrapers have ridiculously low roof amounts compared to the populace.

Also, as far as heating goes, passive houses should need almost nothing for the winter (still need to heat water for showering, etc. though).

E: Can you share your numbers? A 10kWp plant that I had in mind is ~50m^2 - 30x330kWp panels at about 1.6m^2 each, so did you mean you actually need a 60kWp plant?

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Re:West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capaci... by sanitycheck on Thursday July 28, 2022 @07:05AM (#32262796)
Sorry, I didn't save the numbers.. But yeah, sounds right - based on reports that we can only expect 1/5th of the output per panel in winter.

"Passive houses" are not going to happen in the UK for the vast majority of the population in my lifetime!

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