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No, you're not missing anything, Tom, you're spot on! 🙂 Thank you for watching and commenting. Sheila.

We only have to look at our electricity bill to know it works brilliantly for us, Tom. Over the last few weeks, when summer seems to have finally arrived, pur car has been making a profit for us most days. Our car just had its 3rd MOT Test (5 tears old) and the SOH of our battery is still over 92% and we are still seeing 230 miles on the GOM. Thank you for watching. Sheila.

Hello Steve, We have been amazed by the difference having the car plugged in makes. Two days ago, the charger developed a fault around lunchtime but we did not notice until early evening when we rebooted it. The difference that day in our electricity bill was over £3.00! Keep looking out for a second-hand EV, the prices are very affordable now. Thank you for watching and for your kind comments. Sheila.

Obrigado por assistir e por seus gentis comentários. Fico feliz que você esteja gostando de nossos vídeos. Sheila.

Thank you for watching, Terry. Sheila.

We hope everyone gets to do this! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, Terry. Cheers, Sheila.

The charger we have is this one: www.indra.co.uk/v2h/ Bear in mind though. it's not as easy as just buying a charger and wiring it up. Your electricity provider must also be set up to run and administer the accounting for V2H, and your smart meter must send very frequent updates. both to them and to the remote software that controls the charger. (etc. etc . . .) It's complicated! Remember also. that we had our charger installed free of charge via a UK government-sponsored trial of V2G called Project Sciurus, so we did not have to pay for it or the installation! 🙂 Being retired, if we had had to pay for the whole installation process (see the first video) we could probably not have afforded it. Project Sciurus has now ended and you can download the final report from here: www.cenex.co.uk/projects-case-studies/sciurus/ V2G and V2H will come to everyone in time, we are certain, but right now, we know we're lucky to be doing this. Thank you for watching and asking, Sheila.

Huge apologies for not seeing your question earlier. This is the unit we have: www.indra.co.uk/v2h/ Thank you for watching. Sheila.

We would like to see V2G and V2H being common across the planet! 🙂 Thank you for watching and commenting. Sheila.

Of course, you are correct. Maybe we'll see some sort of annual or monthly fee that covers maintaining the infrastructure, much as BT charges for a landline (or did.) Thank you for watching and commenting. Sheila.

Homeowners are not just providing power generation. Home owners have invested a lot of money(loans with interest) into this, and they are helping to balance the grid, which reduces the costs for running the grid. Also, remember solar panels, powerwalls, chargers, and evs needs service or maintenance, and they don't last forever. Sooner or later, new ones are needed. Even though I am not into the green movement, I think homeowners are doing a good job, and they must be paid full amount.

@fix-and-drive-diy-repairs So you completely ignore the REAL costs of everything beyond just generating. Transport, security, and maintenance just exist by magic to you.

@suserman7775 you mean the cost of buying and installing solar panels, buying and installing powerwalls, buying and installing chargers, converters, transformers, and buying electric cars and the cost of servicing and maintaining all these stuff? And, the cost of replacing them when they fail or get old. Both the grid and the homeowner have costs, and both should benefit.

@fix-and-drive-diy-repairs All the costs you mention are incurred for the power company's generation too. But the homeowner pays ZERO costs for transport and maintenance and security thereof. Different costs deserve different pay.

Thank you so much for watching all our videos and for your kind comments. We agree with you, that energy will become more and more expensive as time goes on. Good luck with your Passive Haus, that's quite an undertaking. Can you include solar panels as well? You mention buying a compatible car. Right now CCS does not support V2H but we believe it will in a couple of years, Indra is working very hard on this right now. We will be making another video fairly soon. It has not been totally plain sailing for us, we have had two charger problems requiring Indra to sort it out. We have documented all this and in fact, right now, we are considering changing to another tariff - we think we need to test out all the options open to us. Again, thank you for your ardent watching of our videos! Might we suggest you shoot some video as you build your Passive Haus? 🙂 Cheers, Sheila.

Good luck with your Passivhaus build. We did the same in 2020/21 and have been living in it since then. Ours is 147m2 over 1.5 floors. We installed 13.8kWp of solar on a 10kW SolarEdge inverter but have a 5kW DNO imposed export limit. We have 2 x Tesla Powerwall 2s with a Gateway 2 and myenergi Zappi + Renault Zoe ZE50 for transport and myenergi Eddi + Mixergy HW cylinder for domestic hot water. We have Zehnder MVHR and 2 x 600W electric towel rails for space heating and supplement this with a couple of mobile 600W electric oil-filled radiators when it’s sub-zero outside for more than a week or so. We have no “proper” heating system at all, eg ASHP etc, and we don’t need one. The house stays around 20° year round, just with this very low level of heat input in the coldest months. If I was starting again, I’d install a mini-split air-conditioning system for the main living area and bedroom in order to help keep indoor summer temperatures down and this would have the added benefit of increasing the efficiency of the small amount of winter heating that we use. Having said that, it wouldn’t be worth it just for the winter heating as our annual heating bill is only about £60 - yes, that is per year, not per month. We’re certified to Passivhaus Plus and the house generates an income of about £100 per month or £1,200 per year from our energy exports after having covered the cost of all domestic energy use, including 10k miles per year in the EV. Enjoy your project - it’ll be well worth it! 🌞

Hello, Tim, If you go to my personal website at sheilajoynes (dot) com you will find my contact details there. Cheers, Sheila.

Hi, Patrick, I have uploaded a photo for you: www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/coxbwCtn3xeLUMqT29nJHoqpqccVlfv5u1drvmCyUYS Basically, the connection is made as follows: The incoming (and outgoing) mains connection first comes into the property via the company fuse - currently rated at 80 amps although we could go to 100 amps in the future if ever needed. Next in line is the smart meter that measures the current in both directions and reports regularly both to Indra and to Octopus. Next is a new, additional, isolation switch so the entire system can be switched off so it can be worked on when necessary. Next is a new junction box that splits the single connection into two . . . The first of these connections goes into the house to the usual domestic consumer unit in the kitchen. The consumer unit also connects to the solar panels via a generation meter in the kitchen that totals up the output from our solar panels (currently around 28mWh since we had them installed). The second connection from the junction box goes to a new, separate isolation switch just for the EV system. Then there is an external circuit breaker for the EV system only. This leads in turn on to an external power switch immediately before the charger so we can switch off the charger (in order to reboot it for example). Finally, the charger is connected. The charger will always take a few watts of power from the mains so it can synchronise its 50Hz output with the incoming mains. (The solar panels inverter is doing the same of course). The charger does all the clever work of matching the load from the house (minus what's coming directly from the solar panels) with what it's taking from the car. Basically, when the charger is generating electricity to keep our use of mains electricity as close to zero as possible it takes charge from the car and feeds it backwards through the set-up as just described. When it's exporting to the grid it will take up to 6kW from the car and feed it backwards into the grid, effectively running the smart meter in reverse and crediting us. The software changes modes at different times of day to minimise our charged-for electricity. (An item to note is when this picture was taken, the CT clamp was on the *wrong cable for V2H!* This simple fault caused all sorts of headaches initially. More about this in the next episode. Maybe we should do a section on how it's all connected in the next video!) 🙂 Thank you for watching and asking the question. Cheers, Sheila.

Thank you for watching. Sheila.

Hi, the simpler answer is yes. It's a web-based system so any device with a browser will do. The interface is OK. There are a few enhancements we would like to see such as setting our preferred minimum state of charge. This is in the pipeline already. Thank you for watching. Sheila.

​@@SheilaJoynesDid you answer with the wrong account?

Hi, Brent, Sorry for the delay in replying. This is the charger we are using: www.indra.co.uk/v2h/ Cheers, Sheila.

Hi, when you buy your EV make sure it will work with V2G / V2H. CCS connectors are becoming the standard at least across Europe but are only just now starting to support V2X and so far, none of them seem to have implemented it in the same way. Indra says right now, they would have to modify each charger to suit the CCS vehicle being attached! As for video editing, we know some very successful UA-camrs who use the standard iMovie editor that comes with Apple computers or the standard Windows editors. Have a look at this link: is.gd/Link4Frothster Having said that, Stephen used to make educational TV programmes for a living. He uses Adobe Premiere Elements in Expert mode to edit our videos. He also uses DaVinci Resolve, especially for colour grading. www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve This has the big advantage of being free for personal use but is a fully-fledged feature film editing product and is thus non-trivial to learn and use; there are plenty of tutorial videos on UA-cam though. Basically, keep it simple to start with and if you really get into it, go for Premiere Elements. Cheers, Sheila.

Hi, Bob, Your electricity bill is showing a good figure; well done! Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences. Cheers, Sheila.

Hi, Malcolm, No, you're not missing anything. If there is surplus energy the system will sell it but that is not its primary objective - which is never to BUY any at anything other than the cheap overnight rate and even then to minimise it. To be honest, we're not totally happy with the software yet; it left us with a 10% charge one morning recently - insufficient for the morning's activities. We're all guinea pigs at this stage. 🙂 Thank you for watching and commenting, Sheila.

Hi, The charger is from Indra. see: ua-cam.com/video/WEFe5HYsa0E/v-deo.html You can see it being installed, in this video: ua-cam.com/video/-h_5QHUOQ1Q/v-deo.html Thank you for watching. Sheila.

@@ElectrAA Many thanks for the info.

Hi, Peter, The exporting has only been sorted out since we made the video. We had the MSC certificate so that part was OK, but we did not have the DNO approval letter. We had to send National Grid (stupid company name - Western Power as-was) pictures of the bar-coded sticker on the side of our solar inverter, documentation about the installation, the original generation FIT application form and the buildings regulations certificate of compliance. To give them their due, they generated the DNO acknowledgement letter very quickly - within 18 hours in fact. We sent all this on to Octopus which also responded very rapidly and we have been on the proper Flux tariff since this morning! We will be telling this story as part of our next video of course! 🙂 Thank you for watching and commenting. Cheers, Sheila.

​​@@ElectrAAAm I asking too soon? 😁

Hi, David, We met Robert Llewellyn a few years ago. Fully Charged has done several videos on V2G so I don't think we're that interesting to them. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. Sheila.

@@ElectrAAthey have never done V2H and they have never covered an active house in the uk. I’m sure they would be interested.

@@danielwalls5150 We'll give it a couple of months until we have some sensible data to share and we'll maybe drop Robert an email. Cheers, Sheila.

@@ElectrAA I’m looking forward to the data that’s to come. By the way, if you haven’t already, I would recommend signing yourself up on the octopus home mini trial. It’s a small box which allows you to view live usage in your phone and also display export data in real time. It’s been a life saver for my solar set up.

@@danielwalls5150 We hadn't heard about that so we investigated and have now "expressed our interest". 🙂 Thank you for the tip. Sheila.

We'll let everyone know what's happening as soon as we can. Thank you for watching and commenting. Sheila.

@@malcolmstreet1 We'll talk with Muikc Schooling about that. I wonder if they are all compatible? 😕

Hi, Owen, Thank you for your positive and uplifting comment. You're right, there is no downside to V2G / V2H / V2X. I am pleased this is catching on all over the world. We're still waiting for everyone's ducks to fall in a row so we can change from V2G and test out V2H. I think we're getting close. We had a Webinar with Indra a couple of weeks ago and there is a second one scheduled which should give us details of the OTA charger upgrade. At that point, we will have to change electricity suppliers to get a low overnight rate, We'll keep everyone updated of course. Thank you for watching and commenting. Sheila.

Thank you for watching and for your kind comment.

It's kind of you to watch and take the time to comment. Thank you! Sheila.

Hi, thank you for your kind comments. I hope the Netherlands government make sensible laws for you and you can start doing V2G and V2H soon. The gadget at 9:28 is simply an "IHD" an In-Home display. In the UK, electricity supply companies have been giving them away when they install smart meters. The idea is that if you see what you are using and how much it's costing you will reduce your consumption. It does help. If you have a smart meter, there is probably a display that will work with it over your house WiFi. Here is an example but you will need to check compatibility with your meter. is.gd/IHD_Thing 🙂 Thank you for watching and commenting; and good luck! Sheila.

Hi, Ian, No, we haven't gone to the Indra scheme, at least, not yet. Originally OVO were due to stop the V2G scheme in January, but we were getting very strong messages that they were about to launch their own V2H scheme. They have now postponed the end of their V2G programme until March at which time they have promised a new significant announcement. So, right now the government subsidy along with V2G and our solar panels are keeping our payments reasonable so we'll wait to see what OVO do. It could be interesting. Thank you for watching and commenting. Sheila.

This error in inputting the car mileage would presumably influence the quality of any conclusions arrived at regarding the "treatment" of the battery (charging) and the degradation of the battery?