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RE: Electricity and gas price hike

From the FT article: Ministers are set to outline plans to shift green surcharges from household electricity bills on to gas bills in an attempt to ...

4 years ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

@editor I'm waiting on utility point to refund me £350

4 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

@boblochinver we shall see with my system. I was on Gas and swapped to ASHP. From my own calculations using SCOP of 2.8 I will be several hundred bett...

4 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

@derek-m I used that scheme myself to get a heat pump. I personally had no issues. My dad also used it for some loft insulation. Not sure why it wasn'...

4 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: September Solar Results

@derek-m the numbers lie a bit as we have an innflatable hot tub. I've just put it away (on Sunday), but it loves power. It uses 2kw per hour, so when...

4 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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September Solar Results
4 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

@jeff certainly those numbers don't stack up unless you have some kind of PV system to make a large portion of the hot water element "free"

4 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

@jeff whats the efficiency is your boiler? Its worth taking that into account as it will increase your unit cost for a kw of gas.

4 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

Just looked, on my old numbers (e.g. sans heat pump) my combined gas/elec bill would be £1,900 and for ASHP only it would be £1,379. For Octopus Go ...

4 years ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

@kev-m I am just on the normal tariff at the moment - 17.8p until 2023. So not the end of the world. Smart meter goes in on the 11th of October @der...

4 years ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

@kev-m Its one of the reasons I am moving to Octopus Go - the 5p/kw at night for 4 hours means I can preheat my house (in the rooms I am not sleeping)...

4 years ago
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RE: Interesting PV and HP combined into one panel

@derek-m I saw somewhere that it's about €1000 per m2. Assuming 2.7m2 (as they state) per KW it's still quite expensive. I need 12kw so would need €23...

4 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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