Last seen: Oct 12, 2024
Looks like you got lucky and missed the supply chain issues. Seplos appear to be having big problems fulfilling orders (some of their July orders are ...
Taking this to the extreme, one could eliminate the intermediate air and use a water source heat pump, with the water/antifreeze mixture heated up by ...
There would be a pretty good chance that the container would be on a ship to Felixstowe. Enclosed is a photo from 1 week ago (only one crane operation...
Now that really does make batteries worthwhile. A 5x difference in price is crazy; even with 80% round trip efficiency you're at 9.375p/kWh. I'm guess...
When is your battery due to arrive? A month on from ordering, mine have not even shipped yet. I wanted the 200A BMS (plenty of headroom to disconnect ...
The Mason 280Ah battery kit big build has been published on Off Grid Garage! One concern is the packaging of parts for transport; the BMS could hav...
To be fair, electricity exports are running at around 4 GW net. Not sure why this is the case, but perhaps this is simply an alternative way of transf...
Some sort of pricing transparency would be a good start. Yesterday morning I tried to trace what wholesale price actually meant. See section 2.4. ICI...
Being more permissive of onshore wind in England, as well as solar farms, would be a good step. But these will only ease the gas used to run power sta...
@majordennisbloodnok The Solar Together named installer (Everyone's Energy) has sub-contracted the work to an (anonymous) company (with a Bishop's Sto...
@derek-m Looking at the government report "Electricity Generation Costs 2020" page 25, the costs for a modern CCGT station in 2025 is estimated to b...
@editor Doing a bit of further digging, there is quite a difference between wholesale gas prices (and so the cost to run a CCGT) and day-ahead elect...
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself
Long time listener and new to the forum. Currently usin...
By pipebaron , 4 minutes ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
Seems that they had to use the impetus of the publishin...
By Batpred , 22 minutes ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution
Yup, when I calculated how long it would take, I though...
By Batpred , 1 hour ago
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Yes, I did mean graduates, but not just in physics. Q...
By Transparent , 2 hours ago
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RE: Heat loss calculations and how they work in conjunction with heat pump sizing
Doing the plot from heat pump output gives 6.5-7kW also...
By JamesPa , 3 hours ago
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RE: Heat Pump Installers: Competence, Illusion and the Hard Truth Homeowners Must Face
@editor We defiantly need to come up with a way a custo...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 5 hours ago
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RE: Radiator sizing for heat pump installation by British Gas - are these correct?
You are spot on. I don't know TBH as I don't have ...
By JamesPa , 5 hours ago
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RE: Ecodan Energy Monitoring Pack
Interesting. I tried very hard to monitor energy consum...
By Carpenterstation , 8 hours ago
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RE: Daikin Octopus installation update - I saw my first defrost. 😍😂
@editor Just had my first defrost of this season. ...
By Mike Patrick , 9 hours ago
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
That will be producing significant losses due to phase ...
By Transparent , 1 day ago
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RE: Isolating the system for a planned power cut
When I said we'd need to know more about the RCD, MCB a...
By Transparent , 1 day ago
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Which tells us something (including possibly everything...
By cathodeRay , 1 day ago
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RE: Flexi-Orb Heat Pump Scheme Update: Progress, Pilots and Why This Matters for Homeowners
Thanks for sharing. Sounds promising, ISO are indepe...
By Batpred , 1 day ago
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RE: Specifying batteries, pv solar etc using ChatGPT
I have been positively surprised when I asked it to spe...
By Batpred , 1 day ago
