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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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RE: Our 10 year old Grant heat pump failed
Glad you got a resolution but £11k to £14.5k to replace...
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RE: Brown Oily Residue Blocking Air Vent and Weeping Relief Valve... Anyone Seen This?
OOch thats leaking quite a lot! it looks like...
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
@indevolt-uk Keen to know more about the pricing and wh...
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
An article on funding for heat pumps in case anyone is ...
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RE: Share Your Experiences with Heat Pump Manufacturer Support
@seoras Sorry to hear that. I found Vaillant very help...
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The Watchdog That Watched and Waited
On 9 January 2026, Consumer Energy Solutions collapsed ...
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RE: GSHP Kaput After 16 Years: New Compressor or Switch to ASHP? Advice Welcome
Cool Energy in Grimsby sell ground source heat pumps an...
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RE: Valliant Heat Pump Settings
Thats arguably a sign of a good installer - they unders...
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RE: Electricity price predictions
Well, we have so many cases where rain water mixes with...
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RE: Two heating zones to one zone
@profzarkov They arent obviously wrong, but the only...
By JamesPa , 23 hours ago
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RE: Towns water feed to air source heat pump system
The DHW circuit cant be separated (well it could, you c...
By JamesPa , 23 hours ago
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Solis AC-coupled 3kW storage inverter
Solis AC-coupled 3kW storage inverterPylontech batterie...
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RE: My NIBE ASHP Nightmare: No Commissioning, High Bills and a Hostile Installer
As @transparent has observed above, this is not bad, an...
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As I was reading this article Mars, I was thinking that...
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RE: Tell us about your Solar (PV) setup
Installed in May 2011: 16*Sharp 245 W monocrystalline p...
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself
That doesn't sound 'right' to me. The national Smart ...
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RE: Growatt battery disconnected
I doubt this will happen, but I will try and suggest it...
By Eliuccio , 3 days ago
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Understood. That's why I decided from the outset on a ...
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RE: My experience with 3 heat pump surveys: Heat Geek, British Gas & Octopus
On the litigation, I would not go there and definitely ...
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RE: Recommended home battery inverters + regulatory matters - help requested
I suppose if your pv inverter packs up, you have a plan...
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RE: New Vaillant aroTherm Plus in black - When will it come to the UK?
Firstly check you are using sound power not sound press...
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