Orkney 2. Building the Future | Fully Charged

[@clintthomas1854]

Often I get into debates about renewables and I love using Orkney as a example of what a large city could do to reduce carbon dependency. Wish this would be on international news to stick it to the politicians who haven't got it yet. Enjoyed your Tesla add Robert.

[@gsantee]

Thank You for adding Closed Captions, it makes all the difference for me and others with hearing difficulties.

[@SimonAmazingClarke]

Every new house should be built this way, regardless of whether the smart network is in that area. As the Smart network spreads these systems will already be in place having already benefitted from solar energy and cheap, off peak top up.

[@Joiedevivredesilives]

Simon Clarke the new housing estates all over the UK are badly built and no compulsory renewables

[@SimonAmazingClarke]

Oh I know, they will only add renewables when the regulations say so.

[@slaughterround643]

*+Simon Clarke* Well isn't it handy that the Tories take away more regulations than they add! If only they didn't also buy mainstream media so the average person knew this. Britain is doomed as long as the Tory party exists.

[@adamp.3739]

@@slaughterround643 Better be glad Mrs. May was ousted, as well as having the Tories go down big time. Hopefully nothing but a brighter future is ahead of us.

[@slaughterround643]

*cough* Brexit *cough*

[@popaadrian60]

The future is here, so happy to be part of it :-)

[@HistoryNeedsYou]

As an historian, I can't help cheering at the way old tech has become new tech. In the early days of Aunty Beeb, many people had radios powered by accumulators because they were not on the grid. Domestic electricity storage is returning to the fore just as electric cars have returned after more than a century of internal combustion. In ten years time, not only will domestic storage be the norm, people will think it rather bonkers that we lived without it for so long.

[@EspHack]

in countries with unreliable utilities people have home lead acid batteries and inverters to run for at least a day, its funny how third world countries are more advanced in that way

[@HistoryNeedsYou]

EspHack often I have found these to be charged by PV too

[@victorsinclair188]

Great episode. Nice to see the future of renewable power in full scale implementation.

[@petermarshall1784]

Thank you, I really hope this works as a model for the rest of the UK.

[@HansMilling]

Thank you for showing people the future. This is a great KZbin channel.

[@krrk6337]

Orkney is now my most favorite island!

[@jeremycpack]

Solo Energy. Possibly my new favourite company.

[@jordanamoth6724]

Love the expression at 9:33

[@greyareaRK1]

There is a kind of poetry in that the harder it blows, the warmer are its people. Unless you step outside, of course. Then your face falls off (in winter).

[@imabeapirate]

Stephen's accent is fantastic!

[@markspratt9783]

Great video Robert and really pleased to see you showcasing the technologies suited to the buildings we live and work in. At SPECIFIC in South Wales we're taking a very similar approach to Solo Energy by creating Buildings as Power Stations and also developing new technologies, such as thermal storage, that can improve such buildings and help bring this vision to reality even sooner. We're even working on those Pervoskite solar cells one of your commenters mentioned.

[@antoinem01]

This works, no worries. It's spot on.

[@pauladams1814]

Brilliant video thanks so much, fully charged is like KZbin Prozac.

[@jasonstainer919]

HM Government are you watching and listening this is the future!

LOL no.

[@cathallawlor989]

Collapse of ecosystems and human greed is this what your trying to get at

[@4ickyy]

Today Theresa said there are plans for more nuclear and thanked her friends in Oil and Gas ..... Says everything.

[@ferkeap]

I would like a link to that info rick e, because nuclear is the worst enemy to gas/oil even before wind/solar.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Batteries are getting better and better every other year. They will double the capacity by 2020. We are transitioning to a civilization, where most things are electric.

[@ljprep6250]

Yes, and with the next generation of CPUs using 14nm chip layers, less and less electricity is being used in computers and appliances. We'll likely progress beyond Lithium by 2020, into a whole 'nother level of efficiency.

[@shadowblack1987]

epSos.de too bad the US is so far ebhimd everyone they are still using coal...

[@roelende9670]

The episodes become with every episode more amazing Robert!~Thank you. Bonkers

[@TRYtoHELPyou]

You brought happyness to my day team fully charged!

[@guilemaigre14]

So the future is a mix of batteries, solar pv, wind and scottish accent ? Good to know !

[@X02switchblades]

and hydrogen from the surplus of energy not going into the batteries

[@johnmcconville6055]

Very interesting episode.I live in NE Scotland and the wind power sector is getting very big here as well.It has convinced me to invest in battery storage for the house as well.

[@pouleichel426]

as allways, well done!

[@DeanBoltman]

This is amazing! This should be done down here in South Africa too!!

[@batraxos2]

I love the videos from Fully Charged, but as a Norwegian it is nearly impossible to understand some of the dialects in this video. Would be nice with some captions, and the KZbin caption tool isn't working with these dialects.

[@Ryzomadman]

If you look you will see a subtitle button on the video no idea how accurate they are.

[@xponen]

the KZbin caption for the guy at 4:00 is ~90% accurate.

[@CallumOz]

It's an accent, not a dialect. Sorry if I sound mean, I just wanted clarify. I had to learned French as a second language when I moved to France, so I know how it feels.

[@djackson006]

It's perfect English near enough... 😂 I think geordie and Welsh would throw you off as well. It's the inflections that sound strange, they pronounce their vowels differently than the rest of us. Skold 🍻

[@fullychargedshow]

Hi, yes we'll be updating the subtitles today as soon as possible.

[@kmac499]

Saw the word SCADA in the business model slides. I hope these guys are building serious security into the network against Stuxnet style attacks. Everything looked great.

[@ElectricVehicleMan]

How much are these houses compared to the Orkney average?

[@craigix]

He says in the video they cost less due to the central nature of the heating system.

[@ElectricVehicleMan]

Less than a new house or a new affordable house? In Orkney?

[@Demotruk]

He says it's cheaper to build than a new council house with a central heating system (in Orkney). kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHbLaIlvlNp8p68

[@Andrew-qb3oq]

the price i found online for an orkneybuilders(the construction firm in the video) house was was 275,000 british pounds. It only mentions the modern building tech, in relation to energy efficiency. Nothing about the PV set ups or telsa power walls though. Its about the same price as some of the bigger refurbished cottages on orkney. But there are still many properties significantly cheaper on the islands.

[@ElectricVehicleMan]

£275000! Christ!

[@michaeldavidson4510]

This is really interesting, I think we maybe at the start of a power generation revolution.

[@slanahesh]

Highlight of my week.

[@boyzis]

9:33 :D I just love you guys for making this program !!

[@martialme84]

Awesome video! Very well done. Looking forward to your video on tidal turbines!

[@pHD77]

Finally, an episode that is subtitled. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you SOOOOO much. I'm hard at hearing and usually have a hard time catching every word being said on some of your episodes (although the auto-generated subtitles DO assist some, but gets more wrong than right). FINALLY I'm getting it all. I sincerely hope, that this won't be a one-time thing only. Love this channel and the work it is doing to promote green living. Keep up the good work, Bobby 👍

[@TilmanBaumann]

Those houses look German. I know it's odd thing to say. But you can quite often see where houses stand from pictures without any other hints. Especially British houses are often quite easy to place. It's a fun game I play. :)

[@luckym0nk3y]

You're not the only one buddy. I do this myself as well. If You are watching an unknown video and its shot in America you can see it right away. (I'm Dutch) there's a tv show here in holland that shows videos of police officers on duty and it's a mix of Dutch, English and American footage and most of the time when they are just showing b-roll I can see the difference of scenery and just go " oh that's in England "

[@hellssurprise9338]

Yep fun game, i try and do it people watching working out what industry they work in

[@Sojizy]

Very good episode. Good to see different ways parts of the world are going green. It's very important for the grid to become greener. Would love to have more building developers around the world doing the same.

[@duncanjack2335]

Just a detail, but typically, we don't pay coal stations *not* to generate when there is overall too much generation. Actually, the coal stations typically buy the energy back. If you want to find a subsidy in that system, the price they buy it back at is usually below the market price.

[@petedavis8701]

Very exciting, perhaps my grandchildren will be involved in this revolution

[@warpmonkey]

An amazing video Robert, well done to you and the team. I hope we can see some companies like this start up in Australia. We need creative industries like these to drive energy change down here!

[@BHBeckenbauer]

Great show, great presenter

[@higreentj]

Energy efficient housing and battery storage means we don't need anything else, and the floating wind turbines can be positioned much further from the coast.

[@zefautino]

What's your problem with the 04:00m on? I'm not British and I can understand him perfectly. No subtitles needed at all.

[@marcoshenz]

May I guess you are from Portugal? I am brazilian and also understood easily

[@SuperSiggiboy]

Clavius Magnus I'm Norwegian and understood that perfectly well, but several other Norwegians complained here. I think it probably has more to do with your exposure to those accents, I've been watching Scottish channels for a while, and I almost didn't notice that he had an accent. Your brain gets used to strange sounding people after a while

[@zefautino]

Siggen Not gonna deny I'm fairly used to British and Irish accents, or dialects so no one gets offended. Welsh is tough if you're not aware of their words, poptiping, but other than that...

[@marktiller7760]

Excellent, something that the Australian government should be doing

[@JYelton]

Apply a notch filter near 4300 Hz for the outdoor microphone segment from 0:52 to 3:42. Gets rid of the high pitch electronic whine.

[@AlanStainer]

Well there is one thing I would really love, but I doubt it will happen any time soon. I want to visit Orkney!

[@DefiantAML]

Despite what people might think, solar panels do work on cloudy days and even rainy days. Just not very efficiently. They generate less power, but its usually still enough for your home. There just wont be much excess. Thats my experience with a 4.3kw system on my house.

[@RichieRouge206]

What an awesome video. It warms the heart to see such progress 😍👌🏼

[@fazkhan8009]

Well done . I want one of those 🏡.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

I will invite you to come to Thierrens Switzerland in about 2 months when we go online. How much more capacity can Scotland install? They have about 15 GW installed, what are the plans for more? How are they doing for their transmission lines? Listening to all of these people on the grid, it seems that we will need to change a 20th century grid to a 21st century mentality. I think Europe has one up on America, we don't have to deal with a 19th century grid! But there will have to be modifications, going from a central distribution to a management system. This will cost money, but I am deafened by the silence from the political class. This would be part of a Green Revolution, don't you think?

[@DavidKnowles0]

An the UK is generally ahead in grid management than either the EU or the US. We are known for having one of the most stable grids around. It going to be interesting to see just how successful these British firms can become as other countries look to upgrade their grids and whether we can export this knowledge.

[@cathallawlor989]

David Knowles one reason this is, id that we are asking companies waste coal power sometimes

[@grahammartin5829]

The plan for scotland is to have 40% renewable energy by 2020 and on several occasions this year, i think maybe about 12-14 days (not consecutively) wind turbines alone have provided more than enough energy for the whole country so we are well on our way. I did see somewhere (I can't find a source right now) that Scotland has the highest renewable energy potential of any country in Europe (almost a 3rd of all potential production apparently). With a mixture of wind, solar, tidal, hydrogen and anaerobic digestion we are well on our way to being 100% renewable. Our last coal plant Longannet in fife closed earlier this year. www.gov.scot/resource/doc/54357/0013233.pdf www.independent.co.uk/environment/scotland-wind-turbines-more-electricity-country-needs-four-days-renewable-energy-power-national-grid-a7517066.html

[@morkovija]

Woot woot! New video!

[@northorbital.4692]

Very interesting, thanks.

[@jdjd8467]

Pebble dash? Does that still get used? Is there a good reason for it?

[@DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

I've wanted to move to Orkney for years. I must intensify my efforts.

[@pearson101]

Are they installing any of the Tesla Power packs (Comercial Storage) for load shifting?

[@ridesharedriver2416]

@ 04:00 turn on cc English auto generated and change the playback speed to .5 enjoy 😆

[@soulslaveone]

Why keep the battery on the outside of the house? Isnt it much smarter having it inside, thinking of temperatures and the efficiency of the battery...

[@groMMit1981]

I'd love loads more details on the house, heatpump vs gas, can heatpump provide cooling in summer etc etc cost of house, who builds them, available to be built in England or Wales etc etc....

[@bitman666]

Is the stored leccy just for the home owner or is it available to be sucked back to the grid? (Ahh it can be sucked back 9:33) And I seem to recall, from a previous episode, that it was not yet possible to charge the tesla battery from the grid.

[@SmokyFrosty]

Scott Pritchett Of course you can charge the battery from the grid but it only makes sense to do that in low demand or cheap rate times. The thing that isn't possible without a third party unit yet is being able to withstand a powercut using the power wall as a big UPS

[@bbreeuwer4577]

fullychargedshow I agree with most people, next time, make sure you have subtitles ready. I can JUST follow what the guy is talking about, but I really need my full attention for it.

[@mitchell.9632]

Would the performance on the power pack be decreased by having the battery outside in the cold in the winter? As usual this show is informative.

[@hanvanhulst5474]

Hi fully changed in love the show i was only wondering if you make also programs on new developments on charging and living of the grid like pvt (use the panel heat for house heating and salt water batteries for of grid storage?

[@foxpup]

Another great video. :-) Just to put things straight regarding grid power, Nuclear and Coal power plants are rarely used for "surge" energy demands since those systems take a long time to heat up and cool down and cannot be simply turned off and on quickly even though they are very efficient. The quick on/off changes can be supported with the much less efficient natural gas and diesel power plants that are used for such energy "emergencies" to keep the grid stable. Constant steady energy production is what the grid does well and efficiently. Electricity demand, solar, and wind are all erratic, but batteries, lots of batteries, help smooth out the load/production, to make it reasonable. Adding more solar and wind to "the system" creates a certain need for more energy storage just to keep everything stable. The hard part, especially in the US where I live is changing the mindset of utilities from energy providers to free market energy exchangers, but it is only a matter of time. Until then, resourceful US residents can simply build "selfish solar" systems that mainly power their own needs and supplements from the grid with no provision for selling energy back extra energy to the grid. (less than perfect but a lot better than 100% grid)

[@elektrotehnik94]

10/10 Universal Power Supply (UPS) services by power packs combined with the role of an on-grid battery is the way how to utilise dispersed battery systems in the most efficient manner and make the investment pay itself back more quickly. In the case of a blackout, a house can have it's own power supply, at other times they serve as a supply/demand equaliser, earning money in the process. Such project will show what the price difference must be so that money earned by electricity trading is more than the cost of battery degradation due to charge/discharge cycles. This is the future of a Smart grid.

[@701983]

@air source heat pumps: Should really work well there. Humid air, not too cold... probably a high COP.

[@jacklambert3117]

The solar panels on the houses seemed to have a lower profile than normal or is it just me.Enjoyed the video as always.Thanks.

[@DuncanCunningham]

Rob, have you thought about setting some kind of TIP JAR to your channel. One where someone who doesn't want to commit to sending you a sub using patreon, can just drop a one time amount if they liked the video.

[@sargfowler9603]

Any British person should easily be able to understand the clip from 4:00. The same could not be said if he were Glaswegian :-) A fantastic episode showing houses of the future.

[@robertsmart5600]

To take advantage of cheap wind energy need at least 2 x Powerwall 2 batteries not a Powerwall 1 ? Only 2kW solar is not needed in Orkney?

[@arunmur84]

Out of curiosity, considering that they are building a community of houses, why did they go with a battery pack in each house instead of community level battery or micro-grid? As I understand it large scale commercial batteries are much cheaper than individual modules.

[@krashd]

Because a community would get pissed off if one person was using more power than another.

[@roidroid]

Never heard of an *air-source heatpump* before. Isn't that just a split system air-conditioner?

[@riggald9864]

It's air-con run in reverse - cooling the outdoors to heat the indoors.

[@gerardmelvin8670]

Hi Robert . Have you any news on PEROVSKITE PANELS. These are meant to be cheaper and more flexible.

[@MrRjhyt]

So nice to see something optimistic, in these times of Brexit, Trump and .... Hinkley Point C.

[@saurabh560]

Robert, really like the show, and think you are doing good stuff by raising awareness about the grid. But I think that sometimes your opinions about coal, gas and nuclear come across as very biased. Plants that are paid to be on standby provide a valuable service and are not subsidised. Till we have enough cheap electricity storage on the grid, they allow us to use electricity when we need to. This optionality has a value and a cost, which needs to be accounted for. It is more analogous to insurance than it is to subsidy. Keep on the good work!

[@dobias28]

Had to turn the subtitles on

[@GingerRuss75]

I wonder if hempcrete would have been viable in Orkney.

[@brucestein988]

"Air Source Heat/Heating" was mentioned, but not explained---what is it?

[@backacheache]

Bruce Stein It's like air-conditioning but in reverse, so the unit inside gets hot and the one outside gets cold

[@brucestein988]

Ahhh, thank you! Here in the U.S. we call them "Heat Pumps." They do not have a good reputation for reliability, efficiency, or effectiveness. I hope that the latest versions have solved these problems.

[@Ifyoudonttakeitucantfakeit]

I was told my mpan wasn't good enough for a pw2! How can something which reduces draw from the grid and to the grid not fit on my system? Anyone know please?

[@stephenlinden8717]

Curious why more solar panels weren't added. Looks like there's space for 8 rather than 4.

[@OneisneO]

Is this the only place where this is being tested? I have been hearing about the possibility of this model being applied for such a long time (three or four years), but I think this is the first time there is a large scale application.

[@libellula3313]

So why are prices of electricity to the home consumer going up and up?

[@thegreenman4898]

good stuff , but the grids must be able to withstand the likely increase in bad weather events.

[@themadplotter]

"He dreamed of the mainland and it's Timpsons key cutting and shoe repair repair bar, he dreamed of going to the costa coffee and meeting the waitress with plenty of tit to spare"

[@Bjarkigd1]

Always great to see stuff from Orkney, we are catching on up north here in the Faroes(not fast enough, but still). I felt for sure you would mention HinklyPC and offshore wind in this episode... that's a bet I would have lost. Anyways great channel, most def subbed and will try to spread the word.

[@thesparewheel]

hi i am from Orkney and have always wanted to visit the Faroes the closest i have got is google earth lol

[@zefautino]

Thank you for the € conversion. 👍

[@rossmoore2844]

I needed subtitles to be able to understand some of the commentary. It was all lost on me.

[@jaspermauriceoenema3624]

All good and fine, but is this allowed? I mean: are there not any privacy rules in place that do not allow companies to have control over a battery storage system that actually is not theirs to begin with? How does that work? Do be aware: I'm not anti-storage or anti-durable energy, I'm actually hugely in favour. I'm just wondering how that works, because I know by hard that this not allowed in the Netherlands.

[@Joiedevivredesilives]

Can't believe you can build rubbish Bovis,Persimmon estates with no mandatory solar and renewables

[@WarlordMoA]

Like you said we would need at least three Hinckley Points.

[@cardboardmechanic2019]

Out here in Karachi we have sun/wind a plenty but can't be orkney even

[@CharlieBullen1991]

Robert, one day are you able to explain how the energy market works in the U.K.? I don't understand how we pay for standby power stations? And wholesale prices? Does everyone buy and sell to the grid, then the energy company's buy on behalf of the consumer?

[@buddywheels]

Much respect Orkney - You put HM Gov to shame, very impressive, but the idiots in Whitehall will find some reason why this can't be replicated elsewhere!

[@andersholmstrom2752]

Circle K is doing commercial just before your video ;)

[@JK-iz7is]

It just struck me - FullyCharged is Greenpeace done right!

[@ScottishNSRailFan]

It should be mandatory for all new builds to have solar collection and batteries. All new housing in Hawaii, must have solar panels as the power grid cannot keep up the demand. That was implemented at least 5 years, when I was there.

[@ta81uk]

An all electric house is my dream home 🙇🏽

[@antpowell5974]

In the interest of balance, I think you should have Lord Lawson on. Besides, a little light comedy never hurts.

[@joshuasmith7369]

Who's in their early 40's, had a bladder like robert's, and now feels like moving to Orkney? Answer me.

[@mariusmartinsen2064]

Majority of Britons are very conservative. That's why you building houses same as 30 years age. I am working on new builds around London. Government let big house building companies make money and use all cheap and inefficient methods to build new houses. So basically close circle. Only some self builders build few energy efficient houses. Poor country compere with GB where I from have law to build new houses with energy efficiency of A+ and next year it goes to A+. Thats means you pay a little bit more when building but after that you need very very little energy to heat your house and so on

[@mariusmartinsen2064]

A++

[@10tenman10]

Less than $2,000 per year for electricity is very impressive.

[@carlosdlguerra]

Why doesnt the grid ea the cost and put batteries near their wind turbines instead of people in their individual houses, seems less efficient

[@spex357]

Nasa says we are heading into a Solar minimum period 2019/20, more clouds and much colder weather is due. Between 1309 and 1814, the Thames froze at least 23 times. The reason was low sun spot activity and the North Atlantic Oscillation sucking in weather from Siberia. There is a possibility by 2030 that this area will be frozen all year, is the battery good for prolonged cold and how will those panels cope with the forthcoming crazy weather. In the last Solar Minimum period, the Orkneys suffered a H7 storm with hailstorms over 50mm in diameter which obviously broke all the glass on South facing windows, but also smashed the wooden structures to pieces. 2030 doesn't seem that far away. If you could build some like this in Devon, then I'd be in the queue.

[@barygol]

In Spain that battery on an outside wall would be stolen within the first month.