Exfarmer
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thanks for a very honest answer. Of course if you can rack up the power usage, which would treble the value of the exported power it could make a serious difference to the calculations.After the FIT and RHI, I think we will probably run with a smaller CHP, basically supplying our own needs of electricity and heat, and running mainly off slurry. The business of non-FIT grid generation is not a goer. Still, what will happen to the electricity market in the next 10 years??
Looking at the yield of solar in terms of GWh/hectare, it is far better than pure electrical generation from AD, and even including batteries for night time export probably cheaper than AD. I think the future of AD is to utilise waste only, no crops grown specially, and to utilise heat as much as possible.
Is there any possibility of having a set up to export electricity only at peak times? I know it is quite a local thing but certainly on one of my sites the exported power is worth more than double at peak times of day. Sadly being Solar we can take little advantage of it unless we fitted large batteries, but I am not convinced the life of these will pay for the installation.