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GivEnergy 2025 forthcoming batteries and inverters
1 year ago
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Energy Storage
Replies: 11
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RE: Home energy storage & battery register

2 x GivEnergy 9.5kWh (19kWh total) with 5kW Hybrid inverter

1 year ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@ianmk13 a House Manual is on my to-do list - very good idea.

1 year ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@ianmk13 I hear good things about HA /Predbat on the GivE forums, but am wary of going down the Pi rabbit-hole because of usability / maintainability ...

1 year ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

@broadsman I was considering Planet because I wanted better controls than MELcloud...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

@broadsman I am giving Havenwise a go - I have an Ecodan and Mixergy and the latter seems to have a mind of its own. I suspect that the Ecodan and Mi...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@toodles @ianmk13 there is software available (My Energy Optimiser) that analyses your usage, solar generation, battery capacity etc and based on the ...

1 year ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

Not sure you need the "re". Caleferator sounds fine to me. Shortened to Cally. Mind you, it's bound to sound offensive in some language...

1 year ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

All of the above I agree with - but @editor I imagine started this thread to see if the name we have could be hindering the adoption of the technology...

1 year ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

@jamespa Yes of course you are correct. I was just thinking about the layman's concept of what a heat pump is doing, and at a superficial level it se...

1 year ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

I'm not suggesting this is a better name, but isn't it more of a Temperature pump than a Heat pump, in that it raises temperature? So it collects hea...

1 year ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

My neighbour (a Daily Mail reader) has just had a new boiler fitted replacing a 30 year old Potterton. She knows I have the Ecodan and am happy with ...

1 year ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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