The Smallest, Cheapest and Best Yet?! Home Energy in 2024!

In this episode we’re sharing all the trends we’re watching, home energy products we cannot wait to get our hands on, and the technology innovations that will be sure to catapult us along this unstoppable trajectory towards net zero. Brace yourselves for a suite of super exciting, cheaper, smaller, more efficient and more accessible tech! So the question is, will this year will be remembered as the one where clean energy and electric vehicles officially shed their early adopter reputation and firmly enter the mainstream?!

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00:00 Going mainstream in 2024!
00:44 Tiny Solar Panels and Heat Pumps
01:39 Mixergy’s newest tank has a heatpump!
02:19 Herschel Halo heaters
02:45 Controlling your energy
03:23 Virtual Power Plants
04:03 V2G in 2024?!
04:37 Low Cost Passiv Houses
05:08 Recycled bricks and sugar building blocks
05:33 Supersized Heat Pumps
06:19 Heat networks and volcanic rocks
06:44 Negative pricing and energy storage
07:21 Gravity battery!
07:36 Perovskite PV
08:06 Second hand EVs and Sodium Ion Cells
08:31 Subsidies, policies and a load of elections
09:15 Just all round better for everyone

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When it comes to renewable energy and clean Home Tech perhaps this year will be remembered as the year that all this green stuff officially shed its early adopter reputation and firmly entered the mainstream and with that new era comes a suite of super exciting cheaper smaller more efficient and more

Accessible technologies that will hopefully catapult us along this Unstoppable trajectory towards net zero and in this episode we’re going to share the ones we cannot wait to get our Hands-On in 2024 if you like the everything electric show you will love our everything electric exhibitions around the world next up everything

Electric Australia and everything Electric London get your tickets today this year energy bills are sadly still set to rise and that shifted the focus for a lot of people when it comes to clean tech as payback periods are looking a little tastier particularly when coupled with incentives like the

Boiler upgrade scheme in the UK and those offered by the inflation reduction act in the US but to date heat pumps for example haven’t necessarily been for everyone taking up space and being better suited to some properties over others but that is about to change with smaller heat pumps entering the market

This year like this one from Quantum which is a 6 Kow system capable of heating water to 70° C and most excitingly can be fitted under the sink in an apartment meanwhile Germany based solar native have just launched balcony PV all than to their teeny tiny inverter

That will fit nice and neatly on a balcony smaller more accessible technology we are so glad to see it and speaking of which we are really looking forward to getting under the hood of mix G’s latest product the cuex set to launch in the coming months the cuex

Like mix G’s other products is a smart hot water tank with a solar diverter but this time not only should it fit in a Cupboard Under the Stairs thanks in part to being cuboidal but it has an integr ated heat pump which as it’s optimized for water heating and not space heating

Gives you steamy temperatures while still boasting the incredibly efficient conversion of energy seen with any heat pump Clean Energy Technologies are rarely likeforlike Replacements to their analog fossil fuel predecessors they give us a much broader spectrum of solutions infrared heating which has been around for a while gives us a

Chance to heat the things we actually need to heat and that’s particularly important in big buildings which have historically had an uphill battle to heat all of that space to address that conundrum hersel have launched their infrared Halo heater which fits perfectly in traditional settings like churches in 2024 there’s no room for

Lites to crying that Ecotech is an isol but these Hardware Solutions are arriving at the same time as infinitely more sophisticated software offering far better control and insights of energy usage and that’s where things really step up a gear 2024 will come with a penopoly of clever test Tech to bring

All of these other bits of tech seamlessly together and with that kind of digitalization and a growing number of distributed energy resources either in the home with solar home batteries and EV or with things like Community solar farms and grid storage the grid gets transformed into something we don’t

Become end consumers of but participants in where we can gamify the whole experience and with a critical massive resources comes the opportunity for VPP virtual power plants to really really take off imagine generating excess solar and being able to donate energy not just to the grid to stabilize it but to your

Neighbor or sash it away for a future less sunny day in Australia they are well ahead of the VPP game in large part due to the sheer volume of solar uptake shine Hub is just one example and it says it’s like turning your solar panels into an Airbnb we’re seeing more and

More of this and we’re hoping to visit an incredible floating home low Carbon Community in the Netherlands who have their own micro grid putting VPP principles in action however car companies are integral to really maximizing the promises of VPP as EVS are bigger than most home batteries and

Parked nearly 90% of the time that’s a lot of stationary storage to capitalize on there’s been loads of discussion and trials around bidirectional charging for electric vehicles or VG and this year perhaps is when car companies really sit up and make this possible for us drivers at scale postar and Volvo are both

Upping the anti this front in the coming months and I personally think we’re about to see car companies really try and get a big chunk of this energy pie but it’s not just about using energy we want to make that energy go as far as possible and we are seeing a wave of

Innovation in the building space super efficient passive houses can save energy bills by 90% and projects like Lon walk are proving that this kind of approach is viable for low-income communities and social housing in 2024 we hope to see more projects like like Lon walk will

Show that the outcome is so much more than the sum of its parts better houses cheaper to run better for the planet and when it comes to making homes lower carbon we also have to think about the embedded carbon and there are plethora of alternative building materials we

Cannot wait to get our hands on Elbow ecob bricks are bricks made from waste concrete and waste plastic sugar creep uses waste sugar cane fibers and there are a few hemp-based Insulation Companies emerging too and it’s not just for building even wind turbines are starting to be built from Timber so

Whilst clean technology in the home may be shrinking for cities and industry it’s going super siiz man Energy Solutions are set to supply a district heat Network in alberg Denmark with three 44 megawatt heat pump units in what will be the world’s largest ever used for a district heating plant

Overall the plant will supply around 550,000 megawatt hours of heat annually or about a third of the heat production in the municipality using renewable energy sources it will raise the temperature of sea water to 98° sea and will reduce CO2 emissions by 145,000 tons annually we are going to

See many more improvements to District heat networks using solar thermal geothermal heat pumps data centers and even using recycled aluminium and volcanic rocks like Caldera who are able to get temperatures up to 500° C making their approach also ideal for decarbonizing IND industrial processes like those used in Pharmaceuticals

Brewing food processing distilling and making paper renewable energy deployment continues to rise and there is a chance emissions could peak in 2024 but more renewable energy has come with a growing number of negative pricing events and instances of dumping renewable electricity when so much has been generated that it has nowhere to go

At the same time questions about Dunkle fls intermittency and seasonality of Renewables persist so this year we’re done with wastage energy storage will need to up its game and while stationary lithium ion battery storage is still the most widely used and most rapidly deployed other forms of electrochemical storage such as vadium

Flow batteries and super capacitors will ramp up as well as mechanical and thermal storage things like the gravity battery in China are no longer a work of fiction and companies like cheesecake energy are using compressed air for long-term energy storage this space is about to get super varied and super

Interesting solar is also set to get a boost this year with PA of Sky stepping onto the stage companies like Oxford PV are layering PA of sky on top of the Silicon in solar panels to create so-called tandem cells now because each material absorbs energy from different wavelengths of sunlight tandems could

Potentially deliver at least 20% more power than a silicon cell alone and some predict even greater gains which is particularly useful in super crowded areas or locations where spaces are premium there is an extraordinary amount to be excited and hopeful about and we haven’t even touched on the rise of the

Secondhand EV Market or what we can expect from Battery breakthroughs this year though I will say we’re so looking forward to lovely cheaper abundant raw material sodium ion cells please support our stop burning stuff patreon and help us to tackle misinformation about electric vehicles in C energy with each Innovation the size of

The challenge to Net Zero gets a little bit smaller but it’s not just a case of good technology or even great technology maybe the real Innovation this year comes from being supported and enabled by the right funding and the right policies carrots are often more effective than sticks but this year

There will be leadership elections in the US Indonesia Pakistan Bangladesh and Mexico in Europe there will be eight national elections n if the UK goes to the polls Africa will have 15 presidential general elections as well as Uruguay Panama and Venezuela and not to mention strategically crucial Taiwan amidst legitimate concerns around

Populism misinformation and disinformation and a politicized climate agenda it has never been more crucial to prove that Sustainable Solutions aren’t just more sustainable they’re just better for all of us everyday normal people it’s going to be an interesting year and in the meantime we’ll keep sharing the

Cool stuff that keeps us positive about where we’re headed