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@derek-m I think I'll pass 😊
@toodles I was going to discharge my battery beforehand (it had charged from solar by noon) until I was struck by the futility of the idea 🤣
@toodles I was going to fill my boots again today after Greg's generous offer, then I realised I have no boots to fill after charging my EV during th...
NGED are clearly concerned about high sustained loads. We know that ASHPs should be operated 'low & slow' and, most likely, few would be considere...
@jamespa National Grid (Western Power) are on a mission to reduce to 80A on opportunity. If you want more you have to pay for 3-phase.
I've been on Octopus Agile ToU tariff for 10 months now. I have an EV but don't use it a lot, so this is the best tariff for me (No ASHP. Gas DHW &am...
The applied maths element of my Further Maths A-Level was the most practically useful stuff I learnt at school 50+ years ago 🙂
This may be of interest: Is It Worth Adding a Wind Turbine to Your Home Solar Installation?
@transparent Are you advocating communities collaborating on storage at the 11kV level only, or an alternative of a cluster of homes somehow collabora...
Amazing. I've lived a couple of miles north of Fishermead for over 40 years and never heard of any 'Titchmarsh' area. I thought he was a gardener on...
I wrote to my new MP about this very issue at the weekend. I am in Milton Keynes - a new city, so you might think the local infrastructure would hav...
@Transparent.Now that I am represented by a new MP I thought I should make an attempt at lobbying. I don't suppose it will have any effect as it seems...
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