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RE: Electricity price predictions

Which is another reason why renewables are such an existential threat to big oil, they can't control them because you can generate renewable energy al...

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House

@dgclimatecontrol @drei There are some numbers for embodied carbon here from a source that is likely to be realitively unbiased. Whilst it us ...

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

It's good to be reminded of this! Somehow we think that grant funded works are exempt from this general self-protection principle which applies to al...

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: How Do I Know When the Hot Water Has Run Out?

If you can get the sensor close enough to the tank you probably wouldn't need to turn a tap on, copper is a good conductor. It could equally be a pi...

2 months ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?

I do have an EV and did the maths using eon next drive (7 hrs at 6.5p) and my measured consumption form my heat pump. I couldn't get the business c...

2 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Electricity price predictions

True, but of course they had to be convinced to invest in the first place because the bill payer didn't pay for the infrastructure. In an uncertain ...

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

It's also worth remarking that energy prices are both volatile and political. It's not so long ago that people with oil heating were the poor relatio...

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Sorry that statement ignores the science. The politicians need to manipulate the short term incentives for sure (the medium/long term incentives are...

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

Something isn't right here, you don't design ufh to work above 45C, you would burn your feet. Normally it's designed for 35C or thereabouts. This ma...

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

I don't think you can discount on this basis alone, it would depend on the WC curve settings and the system design For example if you have a seconda...

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: How Do I Know When the Hot Water Has Run Out?

@grahamf Personally I would consider bypassing one of the tanks to reduce loss. Of course this may not be straightforward.

2 months ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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RE: How Do I Know When the Hot Water Has Run Out?

Is there anywhere accessible you can put a thermocouple, perhaps on one of the output pipes near the top? The temp of that falling might allow you to...

2 months ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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