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Can you please clarify what this graph is, it appears to have both setback and no setback on the same days? Also when you did the AUC calculation re...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dare I say 'builders innit' (i think that's the appropriate slang - but its not my specialist subject!). The electrical institutions, in fairness, h...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
All agreed, with the possible comment that theoretical models are (currently) invariably based on well adjusted/designed heat pump systems, and we kno...
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