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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I certainly welcome any such attempt! I think it may be considered an interesting case, often it is the anomalies that lead to better understanding, s...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

The heat energy used (energy in) is measured, and accurately (meter on the oil delivery tanker, external dedicated kWh meter for the heat pump). The h...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Try the Met Office WOW website (<=link). You can search for a weather observation website near you and download the data (you have to register but ...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I don't think so. Consider the facts I presented (measured use), and the assumptions I made (efficiencies), and while the latter are only estimates, t...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I raised this paradox (the 'disappearing COP') in another thread a while back and didn't really get a satisfactory answer. The best I got was somethin...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I still think the biggest obstacle is price, both installation and running costs. Even with the BUS grant, a heat pump is going to cost a lot more tha...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

Thinking about it, I am not sure that would work. If you had been logged out, but didn't know you had been (as happened to me), then clicking 'Save Dr...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

Yes, there is that, and there is also Crtl + A > Ctrl + C before clicking add reply, but both rely on remembering to use them. The problem is that ...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

I couldn't agree more. I can think of so many examples, often from the sailing world where the ancient and modern are so very different (new classic b...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@editor - I have just lost a reply I was going to post. I think what happened is I was logged in when I started the reply (and so had access to the 'L...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Rethinking the mindset for mass retrofit - a provocative idea

That's encouraging (the beginning to come round bit). I will put some thought into how we might convincingly show that the current MO won't work. It m...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Rethinking the mindset for mass retrofit - a provocative idea

I got an unsolicited email from my energy supplier (EDF) today: "Looking to transform your home heating? It's time to say hello to heat pumps...". Ano...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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