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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...
Once the warmer months arrive I don't switch off but just set the thermostat back to 14C and the system "sleeps" through the summer doing the occasion...
Eeek! Are you sure you have your MW/h and KW/h correct? that November to December monthly bill would have been £366,520 on the energy price cap for ...
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