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When our carbon budget gets tighter, would the government start to fund carbon capture out of general taxation or encourage faster phasing out of oil ...
Good point, I do expect the bonus of putting my energy storage to use for the export during peak rates to not last forever… specially if planning perm...
@allyfish Great to read how you managed it. My main suggestion would be to try to add more energy storage. When we get closer to removing gas, we w...
@transparent i just mean dc in the wire
In the case of our installation site, I see value in having the RCD fit, so we will have it. In many other cases, since I understand isolators are typ...
So would the presence of DC components require RCDs to be fit? Vaillant does not seem to be different from other heat pump manufacturers: they state t...
Vito Energy has information on their website about this Hager/Vaillant collaboration. Hager still shows some info in their website. Could it be tha...
@jamespa I suggested to have a Contactum RCBO and the installer´s anxiety was very clear! Obviously the Hager CU is worth it, to avoid the emergenc...
Yes, and by the looks of it, much of the paperwork is not even standardised. How complicated would it have been to mandate a single reusable heat loss...
@jamespa Yes, unfortunately our policymakers learned to be very cautious, as they are under funded and over reliant on industry. Consumers are pa...
Based on what I was told and read, because Vaillant and Hager collaborated to design this heatpump RCCB model. So marketing appears to have used that ...
@jamespa I fear the average installer will not question it. The way it was explained to me is that it is required by Vaillant for the warranty. But...
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