Last seen: Sep 6, 2025
@Morgan, what's the verdict?
@peterr, thanks for the update and look forward to hearing how it performs.
A whacky press release I received: With the recent change to the energy price cap, the rising cost of fuel bills is on many people’s minds right...
@hydros, I think we’re going layer up this winter and I’ll be getting the mohair socks out. Even with our ASHP ‘ticking over’ it can chew up 2-3 kWh ...
@derek-m how are you controlling the gradual ‘acceleration’ and ‘deacceleration’ of your A2A heat pump? For us, to try and achieve this, would invol...
I’ve been intending to ask now for a while but why aren’t all (or at least more) electricity providers offering time of use tariffs? Is it a tech issu...
@jeff, thanks for that. Do you think the quarterly cap adjustment is better or worse for homeowners? Do you also know how long the increased standin...
With the impending tariff increase in October, is the price of gas still going up, and is that still the main driver for the increase?
Welcome to the forums @amyashp. I think it’s only a matter of time before Octopus introduce an ASHP tariff, but at the moment, as Batalto said, your o...
@derek-m, glad to hear you’re back up and running. We’re with Sky - their customer service and support is decent, but they are a greedy company that...
@derek-m, that can be frustrating. Whenever we have these short powerful failures I always dread the restart because inevitably something stops respon...
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