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Thanks for the update. I would be interested to know how the system/melcloud calculates the consumed electricity as without official metering it just ...
One thing to note would be if Octopus goes under or removes the Go tariff you would be left with a system that would only really work in summer provid...
It could be a good idea to allow signatures to be added or info from your profile to be displayed next to each post in your user info such as location...
@derek-m In a perfect world I would but part of my house is probably over 70-80 years old with little to no insulation and other parts are brand ne...
I think a special tariff for ASHPs that kicked in for the winter months would be a good option if they intend to keep gas prices much lower than elect...
Not much point as we'd use pretty much all of what would be produced by most domestic sized Solar PV installations. I'm also not a fan of batter...
Indeed. The cost of going green with the ASHP has not been rewarding so far 🤣 I do wish we'd gone ahead with the 17.5kw solar PV system as the payb...
Here is my data for this period (1-18th November) - 420M2 House with UFH and Rads. Both you and the original poster have quite high heating consumptio...
I've had to set our direct debit for £600 a month as with the new prices we will be hitting £8k a year. The ASHP will make up about £3500 of that.
@siko The post above is the ASHP performance (the original post a few weeks ago was electricity consumption for the house). I was just showing what...
@siko This was our total electricity consumption (not the heat pump). Sadly our household consumes a silly amount of electricity. Sometimes when I ...
Hi Nick,Its more important to understand the current setup of your property in regards to insulation, double/triple glazing, radiators/underfloor heat...
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