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Indeed so. I am told by a reliable source (someone who was working on the software) that the smart meter 'back end' infrastructure is being substanti...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thanks, however the link to the report didn't seem to be present.
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...
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...
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