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RE: Lower electric tariffs for heat pump users

Time of use is the one which makes economic sense, its a way to balance the grid load thus reducing the infrastructure build needed to electrify the c...

1 year ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Lower electric tariffs for heat pump users

Indeed. Its fundamentally a ToU tariff designed to do some grid balancing, but tweaked to make it useful for a particular purpose. Makes sense. If ...

1 year ago
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RE: Lower electric tariffs for heat pump users

I thought so, I asked because @gary above quotes suggests that octopus cosy is an existing example, but it isn't its a ToU tariff marketed for heat pu...

1 year ago
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RE: Lower electric tariffs for heat pump users

By 'heat pump tariff' do you mean a tariff specifically for the energy used by your heat pump (lie OVO offer) or something like Octopus Cosy which is ...

1 year ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

I can sort of agree, but its an imprecise line. Perhaps the distinction is to avoid 'party politics' (ie express criticism or support of one particul...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Two possible heat pump routes - how to evaluate them?

That all makes sense. Many heat pumps have, I believe, a parameter which allows you to adjust the min cycle time (typically, it seems, set to 10min...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Two possible heat pump routes - how to evaluate them?

You may be getting a bit over-concerned about cycling. Pretty much all central heating systems cycle at some point, its absolutely inevitable when th...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Two possible heat pump routes - how to evaluate them?

OK so that's not so bad. Basically the rads you are paying for (or which are bundled) will likely end up a oversized for 50C if you insist on 22s and...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Two possible heat pump routes - how to evaluate them?

Thanks, however the link to the report didn't seem to be present.

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Two possible heat pump routes - how to evaluate them?

Consider going the other way then, ie asking them to operate at a higher flow temperature and upgrade fewer or no rads. Then, with the money saved, y...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Two possible heat pump routes - how to evaluate them?

Perhaps you can persuade them to upgrade those radiators that they do change to be a bit bigger than strictly needed. Then as @derek-m says you can l...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

Are heat pumps politics-free? They have two principal use cases 1) to mitigate climate change by using partially (but trending towards largely) ren...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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