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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

@derek-m absolutely agree. We fitted a 3.6kW 9 panel solar array alongside our ASHP. I then had a 6.5kW battery fitted. Together with Octopus Cosy the...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Octopus Energy Heat Pump Quote

@tim441 same with me! Installer & commissioning engineer left Climate Compensation disabled and fixed 50degC flow temperature. It was costing a fo...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Replacing a gas boiler with a heat pump is "irrational"

My personal take: 'playing to the gallery' The overwhelming membership of the EUA seem to be from the fossil fuel and direct electric heating industri...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Octopus Energy Heat Pump Quote

I think MCS MIS3005 standard requires weather compensation to be enabled wherever it is an option on the system controls Tim. The design temperature i...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Octopus Energy Heat Pump Quote

Plinth heaters will work with any heat source, boiler, ASHP, etc. Heat output is purely a function of water inlet temperature, room air temperature, w...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Octopus Energy Heat Pump Quote

Octopus seem to get it. I moved to them for electricity and their Cosy tariff really works for us. Great customer service.This is a well detailed and ...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Poor location for ASHP, how much of an issue is it with respects to efficiency?

It's a pi$$ poor location for the ASHP, there will be an efficiency penalty. The Grant installation manual is a copy of Chofu's Japanese detail. The '...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Installing an immersion heater into a hot water cylinder

Are you looking to provide an extra 3kW of water heating capacity on occasion Mars @editor? The Grant LLH can be used purely as a 11.5l volumiser. It ...

2 years ago
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DIY
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RE: Noise/ Planning Expert

Hi @ericdo. Noise is a difficult subject. MCS 020 noise assessment guide is a rough estimate tool for installations to check, on paper, dB(A) theoreti...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: replace large outdoor unit with smaller one

55m2 is a very small heated area, a 5kW unit would provide 90W/m2, which is at the higher end of the 65-85W/m2 'typical installed heating load' for a ...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Smart metre installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

AFAIK, SMETS2 2nd generation smart meters are able to share data between suppliers. Each energy supply company will partner with a 3rd party smart met...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Smart metre installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

It was straight forward for me. External metre box, my then supplier OVO installed the smart meter. I was pleasantly surprised that, even though it wa...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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