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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?

@adamk apologies if my comments appeared thoughtless and I should of course have qualified my final point with "and provided you have suitable funding...

9 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?

I must confess to not understanding the need to justify the business case for investing in renewables. What other capital expenditure is subject to t...

9 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: The Battery Battle

Coincidentally I had my solar / battery installer back today to amend the wiring to allow a manual switchover to island or off-grid mode in the event ...

9 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: The Battery Battle

Yes - I had my eye on a Tesla charger just N of Norwich at 52p/kWh, but our plans changed and it was no longer on our route.

9 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: The Battery Battle

I agree that range anxiety goes away after a few months with an EV, and I am now OK with running the SoC down below 10% on longer trips. But it's no...

9 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Ecodan & MelCloud scheduling

I use the MELcloud app only to set the time schedules for heating. I vaguely remember the installer saying use one or the other, not both. I have a...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Powerwall 3 or Myenergi or something else?

A few comments: 1 MCS - my solar/battery installer wasn't accredited initially and I couldn't open an export tariff with Octopus until they were. ...

10 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?

Very interesting! I have noticed that the Octopus meter reading department and the tariff department don't exchange data because I have been on Agile...

10 months ago
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Your Home
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?

We have a regular water meter which was installed when the property was converted in 1991. After about 10 years, the meter failed and was replaced. ...

10 months ago
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Your Home
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RE: Double or Triple Glazed Windows?

As I have reported elsewhere, we replaced all our glass with vacuum glazing from LandVac last year. We were fortunate to have smallish wooden frames ...

10 months ago
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Insulation
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling

This is how my system is arranged, with a three port valve that switches the HP flow either directly to the DHW or to the buffer when in heating /cool...

11 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Wattson has landed!

@editor No objection from me to using AI if it spreads the word. I personally use Perplexity quite a bit and find it helpful. But as others have m...

11 months ago
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