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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...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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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...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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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...

3 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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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...

3 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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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 ...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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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...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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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...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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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...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

I think the term has entered into the English vocabulary now and it doesn't need to be descriptive - rather like a hoover.

4 months ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Since we've had several nights with sub-zero temperatures recently (with the average temperature yesterday of 0.4°C), I though I'd quickly revisit thi...

4 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Column radiators for heat pump

I have a couple of tall (1.8m) column radiators im my kitchen diner. I presently have a boiler and have assumed the usual downrating for ASHPs. One pr...

4 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: ASHP and Solar Panel retrofit under the HUG 2 scheme

A quick Google suggests that other than having to comply with building regulations, the contractor need only provide method statements for the work. I...

4 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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