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I am certainly sold on the principle but I hesitate on the costs and more specifically the break even point. I currently have solar PV and solar therm...
The units firmware can be updated via the MelCloud app. Settings>Firmware update and it will check if the unit is upto date.
Yes, they scavenge the heat from the back of the PV panel while it generates so instead of being open the PV panel is mounted in a box with the heat r...
My COP historically was 4.1 - 4.2 but the cold weather last year pinned that back to 3.8 last year. I have hybrid solar thermal/PV panels which help ...
It sounds similar to what I get with an Ecodan 14kW, in a 30 year old timber framed house of similar floor area and using radiators only. I usually ha...
How many unicorns and rainbows can you fit into one paragraph? So what have Clarke, Leadsom. Sharma, Kwarteng, Rees-Mogg and Shapps being doing...
Indeed it is! Which brings us full circle to the unit cost of electricity. While it is artificially pegged at 34p/kWh it is bad enough. If the trailed...
Thank you Mars that is helpful but I am still confused. 800 litres of kerosene should give 8240 kWhs of energy. If your equivalent is 1200kWh of elect...
Whoa...I am delighted with my ASHP. It performs outstandingly and has slashed my fuel bills from my previous LPG +solid fuel. No where am I denigratin...
That is surprising and welcome. Oil at 75p/litre seems very keen, Boiler Juice are quoting 84p/litre today. How many litres of oil v how many kWhs of ...
Okay, with a ASHP with a SCOP of 2.5 that still leaves a bill of around £2600. Heat with an oil boiler and that is sub £1,800 with around 6000kWh for ...
But as many of us in rural areas are not on the mains gas grid, so then the choice is oil, lpg, logs or ASHP. The linked rising unit price of mains ga...
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