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I will soon be struggling. Admittedly it is the summer, but £30 a month including EV charging (without PV) is not a bad ad to how people can make rene...
@majordennisbloodnok The optimist in me thinks the extra costs on electricity are being used to fund the upgrades that will make it a credible low ...
@transparent May I ask if this is Ohme? I had a similar "issue" and they resolved it.
We sort of agree, in the sense the current ratio of electricity to gas cost is not a very strong incentive for enough people to switch. Perhaps this i...
Thanks, I had a look atand the lower modulating is shown as 2.2 for the 5kW arotherm vs 3.2 for the 7kW. If the 5.1 kw loss is confirmed and a 5kw pum...
I know it is not as simple as going from a fossil fuel car to a BEV, without the hybrid.. which we did. Everybody’s case is different. We did insula...
@temperature_gradient Yes, but while a battery needs no maintenance and little space, the hybrid system with all that comes with keeping the old ga...
@temperature_gradient In the current markey, my advice continues to be to invest in a battery first, to enable accessing overnight electricity rates...
Potentially, Toodles, but given that boiler purchases were likely to include a larger number of people that did not make much effort, the fact there w...
Absolutely agree. We are looking to have one installed so have gone beyond what we read on in forums, talking to people living nearby that had them ...
We pushed for a system without a buffer as per advice of many in this forum. The Arotherm fits this and with a heatloss of 5.1, the 5KW version was te...
I had a few quotes and none of them says much about the process of getting the MCS paperwork for the BUS grant and what it involves. I am not askin...
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