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@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...
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...
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...
@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...
@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...
@downfield I use Predbat hosted on Home Assistant which calculates every 5 minutes to optimise battery use to achieve lowest cost. However, the times...
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...
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...
@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 ...
@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...
@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...
@transparent Octopus Energy (and, pehaps, other suppliers) offered 2 hours of free electricity on the morning of 24th November. Those people with ho...
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