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RE: Electricity price predictions

@mattengineer interesting to see Go off peak prices up 50% - admittedly from 5p to 7.5p isnt exactly costing the earth. But still quite a rise from th...

4 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Heat recovery systems

@majordennisbloodnok its £245 here - so I've shaved about 100 years off your payback. That's me done for the next century

4 years ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Domestic wind turbines

@saf1973 I expect they've used a copy of the ASHP page and just not modified that section properly when customising it for turbines.

4 years ago
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Wind Generation
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RE: Ecodans and Nest thermostats - can it work?

@hightower I have a Nest, however for my HP its just being dumb. I set it to 22 degrees and adjusted the room temp via weather comp and TRVs

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus

Is this what you were looking for? Run cost estimation per month of heat pump Month % energy used/ month January 19% February...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Worcestershire ASHP

Mine seems to defrost at roughly the same time every morning, after the showers and it's reheated the tank. Quite cool to see it steaming and then a h...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO)

I'd just like to correct a misconception everyone here seems to have. The UK has in fact reduced it's power use massively over the last decade or so. ...

4 years ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: Ombudsman (UtilitiesADR) question - what to do if the respondent isn't abiding to the ombudsman's decision?

@editor I would assume that's the maximum for standing charges if you use nothing. But it's only a guess.

4 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

@mattengineer I honestly think car batteries would be fine for a house. The loads a house would give them pale in comparison to driving. The peak load...

4 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

@prjohn V2G would be ideal, sadly its not really available yet. However I have seen the new ID3 from VW if you get a model this year will have V2G and...

4 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Share your electricity bills

@jon-c just had a look on a comparison site. 8.5p/KW for gas is the lowest price and 29p/KW for electricity. Ouch. Still, that's a cop of 3.4 if you w...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Thinking of ASHP install

@robertoi PV on its own can be massively beneficial. Tied in with a battery and it can be even better. Last year with generation and energy savings I ...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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