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RE: Ripped Off: How UK Homeowners Are Paying Gas Prices for Wind Energy
By JamesPa, 3 hours ago |
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I don't disagree for a minute with some of the sentiments about gas prices vs electricity etc but, to add some balance to the argument: My heat pump, retrofittd to a 1930s property in SE England with ... | ||
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RE: Charging the last 5%
By Judith, 4 hours ago
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Energy Storage
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Certainly our Givenergy battery shows the same effect with the newest software. It is deliberately designed to reduce the rate of charge so it has a “soft finish”. I assume it is expected to improve b... | ||
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RE: Ripped Off: How UK Homeowners Are Paying Gas Prices for Wind Energy
By Johnmo, 8 hours ago |
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So you are running elevated flow temperature and bouncing off a thermostat instead of WC. Why not weather compensation? Why are you paying that much? Instead of being on here get a better tariff. Fir... | ||
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RE: Ripped Off: How UK Homeowners Are Paying Gas Prices for Wind Energy
By TechnoGeek, 8 hours ago |
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@johnmo my system is already a hybrid with a threshold of 4 degrees. In an attempt to keep things simple the £850 includes an oil cost of £170 so not including the oil part, the ASHP cost was £680 Eve... | ||
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures
By Andris, 9 hours ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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I feel like a record is on it's way this month. Scotland has never been this sunny for this long without a break. At 653kw already this monthand in counting...... I feel like I am in Spain. 😀 | ||
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RE: Enabling WiFi: Samsung ASHP on Smart Things App
By Grahamh-uk, 10 hours ago |
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@technogeek @johnmo @netdonkey I made some progress, but not all I hoped for. I bought and installed the MIM-H04EN WiFi unit and connected it to the indoor unit of my Samsung ASHP (MIM-E03EN). I now h... | ||
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RE: Discharging battery to grid whilst charging EV
By AndrewJ, 11 hours ago
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Energy Storage
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@majordennisbloodnok Well, I tried it and nothing burned down 😀 Actually, I forgot to think about the 8kW inverter so what happened was that the battery entered its forced discharge and 7kW e... | ||
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RE: Ripped Off: How UK Homeowners Are Paying Gas Prices for Wind Energy
By Johnmo, 12 hours ago |
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They are also paying people to replace old gas boilers with new for free - it's all f!cked up. | ||
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RE: Ripped Off: How UK Homeowners Are Paying Gas Prices for Wind Energy
By Abernyte, 12 hours ago |
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"I have just filled my oil tank for £534, a no brainer," I understand that totally. However therein lies the disgrace that Governments supposedly focused on a climate crises allows kerosene to be so... | ||
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RE: Enabling WiFi: Samsung ASHP on Smart Things App
By Toodles, 13 hours ago |
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@profzarkov I use one of our ‘old’ gas boiler installation’s Hive P(Programmable) TRV’s in our bedroom. The rest of the emitters are ‘open’ with redundant TRV’s sitting on top of the valve bodies just... | ||
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RE: Ripped Off: How UK Homeowners Are Paying Gas Prices for Wind Energy
By Johnmo, 13 hours ago |
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Why not hybrid - above 5 degs outside (or at whatever temperature you start to defrost) a heat pump will beat anything hands down on running cost. At the point it starts to defrost most other are gett... | ||
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RE: Grant Aerona3 - Home Assistant control via Modbus
By Grantmethestrength, 14 hours ago |
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@majordennisbloodnok The ECOWITT integration is useless (or maybe I am as I couldn't get it to work!) I use an API call to get the data from my weather station. In my configuration.yaml I have the fol... |
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RE: Ripped Off: How UK Homeowners Are Paying Gas Prices for Wind Energy
I don't disagree for a minute with some of the sentimen...
By JamesPa , 3 hours ago
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Certainly our Givenergy battery shows the same effect w...
By Judith , 4 hours ago
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures
I feel like a record is on it's way this month. Scotlan...
By Andris , 9 hours ago
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RE: Enabling WiFi: Samsung ASHP on Smart Things App
@technogeek @johnmo @netdonkey I made some progress, bu...
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RE: Discharging battery to grid whilst charging EV
@majordennisbloodnok Well, I tried it and nothing burne...
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RE: Grant Aerona3 - Home Assistant control via Modbus
@majordennisbloodnok The ECOWITT integration is useless...
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