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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@toodles I've only got 13.5kWh of battery (no ASHP) and it doesn't get me through the day - primarily because Mrs mk13 wants the heater on in the gre...

7 months ago
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RE: MCS heat pump pre-sale information and performance calculation

As I mentioned, a short duration analysis seems to be adequate, but I only discovered after analysing the historical data first. 'Blasts' of energy a...

7 months ago
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RE: MCS heat pump pre-sale information and performance calculation

Your annual gas consumption on its own isn't enough. You need to know WHEN the gas is used to a very good time resolution so that you can determine t...

7 months ago
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@majordennisbloodnok No, I wasn't aware of that. To be honest, the manual is more for someone else to use, should I inadvertantly fall under a bus o...

8 months ago
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@downfield Very important considerations, for sure. My wife has been saying for years that she doesn't know what she would do without me - and that's...

8 months ago
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@downfield I use Predbat hosted on Home Assistant which calculates every 5 minutes to optimise battery use to achieve lowest cost. However, the times...

8 months ago
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

And presumably reselling it on the wholesale market. Do we know how this energy is metered?Won't riding on the back of a residential sub-station adver...

8 months ago
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

Yes, I'm reading 😉 I'm very surprised by the assertion that 34% of people claim they know a fair amount about low carbon heating systems. I...

8 months ago
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@toodles 13.5kWh here, but no ASHP. 27kWh would be ample for me (as would 13.5kWh if Mrsmk13 didn't insist on a greenhouse heater. At least this year ...

8 months ago
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@toodles Yes. I'd been giving this some thought since posting. Something like dividing the daily average or max energy consumed by the battery char...

8 months ago
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

@toodles With you having a battery, it will be nigh-on impossible to look back and decide which tariff would have been a better choice as your usage...

8 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

@transparent Octopus Energy (and, pehaps, other suppliers) offered 2 hours of free electricity on the morning of 24th November. Those people with ho...

8 months ago
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