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JamesPa
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RE: Installing a heat pump in a Grade II listed property

Yes and Yes. Conservation of energy must eventually apply, but may take a long while for equilibrium to be re-attained, and my suspiscion is that in ...

11 months ago
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RE: Installing a heat pump in a Grade II listed property

The '10%' refers to the change in deltaT between IAT (20C->19C) and OAT (10C). House loss (which is how the '10%' is being used) is proportional ...

11 months ago
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RE: Installing a heat pump in a Grade II listed property

Provided the 'control' period from which these were derived is representative of the test period I would agree. If any changes have been made to the ...

11 months ago
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

Dare I say 'builders innit' (i think that's the appropriate slang - but its not my specialist subject!). The electrical institutions, in fairness, h...

11 months ago
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RE: Installing a heat pump in a Grade II listed property

True (which is one reason I advocate it for pump sizing), but it doesn't support extrapolation to other scenarios (ie houses) unless you have enough e...

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

The conclusion is right but just to correct the units - you have a 10kWh battery and it charges at about 2.1kW. Think of kW like speed and kWh like ...

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

You could well be right. I didn't look into it that far because I fail Octopus Intelligent Go at the first hurdle. Although I have an EV its only co...

11 months ago
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RE: Installing a heat pump in a Grade II listed property

I don't think so and hope not. I grant that heating, while fundamentally simple, is actually rather complex. However there is, in principle, a vast ...

11 months ago
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RE: Installing a heat pump in a Grade II listed property

All agreed, with the possible comment that theoretical models are (currently) invariably based on well adjusted/designed heat pump systems, and we kno...

11 months ago
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RE: Tarrif model for ASHPs

Thanks for this its always good to have some real numbers. In terms of judging payback I don't personally put ASHP and batteries in the same category...

11 months ago
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