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I would also look at an air/air install if you've got to make radiator changes, you want cooling or you want to migrate over time (ie keep the gas too...
What will also happen is that they see that there is solar on the roof and they go blindly to their solar panel checklist for tickbox conveyancers (re...
And unfortunately in modern times not enough economists who understand things like money and that grants end up in the wrong pockets. Cutting the va...
We already do this - non grid tie self installed panels plugged into self installed battery/inverter stacks running the main air/air heatpumps. All di...
The MCS solar/battery game is coming to an end anyway. The existing regulations say MCS or an electrician trained in solar who is a member of an equiv...
Convention in the industry is that 20ms is not a UPS it's an EPS no more. That is because the ATX standard that defines home computer power supplies o...
For cooling a whole building, or even a big room with lots of windows you definitely need to deal with the sun and the windows before you try and figh...
The updated draft seems to be fairly good although I think if someone with enough lawyers was bothered, flawed enough to drag it out for ages (it req...
Hopefully if the Reform lot don't get defeated by a man with a bin on his head then the energy suppliers will have the guts to simply turn off and sto...
40kWh battery is 3350 trade, inverter is a grand, no gateway nonsense needed so it's about 5 grand in hardware for a 5kW, 40kWh, most of house backup ...
I wouldn't call Sunsynk high end, at least not price wise but it's got all the backup stuff built in - just add an earth rod and transfer switch (so y...
All the plug in systems are required to island for safety so no plug in system will provide power through the sockets into the house with the grid out...
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RE: The Changing Jet Stream Could Challenge UK Air Source Heat Pumps
Sorry that was a mistype. I meant 2A2A ie a2a with 2 o...
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@rob-of-york sounds like a term that Heidegger would...
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
An excellent concise exposition of loss aversion: a 4% ...
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RE: How much of your renewable and home setup would still work if the internet went down?
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