Connecting your Diesel Generator to the Grid?

335bm

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Hi there, new to the forum but been reading on here for a while.

I came across an article on the Farmers Weekly website about earning extra income from your diesel generator by connecting it to the power grid. According to the article you can earn upto £60,000 per year with a 1MW Generator.
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this, done it themselves or knows of any of these 'Smart Grid Companies'?

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upnortheast

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Don`t know the details and I`m not an expert, but a 1MW genny will be masive with a price tag to match. Asking the price of a grid connection of that capacity will not be for the faint hearted. I would have thought it would be impossible on the type of lines that supply farms.and villages You would need to be next door to an existing high capacity sub station
 

Greenbeast

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Location
East Sussex
Don`t know the details and I`m not an expert, but a 1MW genny will be masive with a price tag to match. Asking the price of a grid connection of that capacity will not be for the faint hearted. I would have thought it would be impossible on the type of lines that supply farms.and villages You would need to be next door to an existing high capacity sub station

you'd probably also need a diesel refinery as your other neighbour....
 
Hopefully about to install 14 MW.

Have you any grid near by that's available?

60k is laughable, it's considerably less but worth doing if you have all the ingredients to make it work.

You would need a good agent to organise this all, there are various routes you can go down, STOR being the main one.

They don't use much fuel, only run for 200 hrs a yr or so, think we have 2 no 40,000 litres going in.

I am guessing unless you have a unique site with planning and a 33kv plus line that's has capacity then it's dead in the water,Mobutu if you can get it then per acre it's quite a bit better than farming :)
 
Depends on connection costs and supply etc.

Got some huge ones v close by but it would have cost about 2.8m to connect in!

Fuel costs aren't the killer on these projects, it's grid mainly, and planning.
 
Hopefully about to install 14 MW.

Have you any grid near by that's available?

60k is laughable, it's considerably less but worth doing if you have all the ingredients to make it work.

You would need a good agent to organise this all, there are various routes you can go down, STOR being the main one.

They don't use much fuel, only run for 200 hrs a yr or so, think we have 2 no 40,000 litres going in.

I am guessing unless you have a unique site with planning and a 33kv plus line that's has capacity then it's dead in the water,Mobutu if you can get it then per acre it's quite a bit better than farming :)
What do you think the real return per kw is then?
 

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