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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

@lucia There are many elements of your post above that I would definitely agree with! What I would not agree with is describing the government as ...

2 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

How exactly? Building regulations require heating installations to be designed efficiently etc., and the legal requirement is to conform to building ...

2 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

You were supposed to get an insurance backed guarantee to guard against this. The 'grant chasers' will indeed go bust, their business model is based ...

2 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

They have already done that if you don't take (or there is no) grant! (in England, I cannot comment on NI, Scotland or Wales) The 'rigid and inflex...

2 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Installer Fitted 9kW Instead of 11kW Heat Pump and Changed MCS Paperwork - What do I do?

Thats helpful. Presumably the role that the Secretary of State appointed it to is somewhere documented. That would be the basis of any questions etc...

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Not just the government though, also the industry. @downfield was recalling my comment that, at least for me, my EV and Heat pump are both a serious ...

2 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Not just the government though, also the industry. @downfield was recalling my comment that, at least for me, my EV and Heat pump are both a serious ...

2 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Installer Fitted 9kW Instead of 11kW Heat Pump and Changed MCS Paperwork - What do I do?

@mairia @editor Here is what it says on the MCS front page under a heading 'What we do' "MCS is the UK’s quality mark for small-scale rene...

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Electricity price predictions

I guess that isnt too much of a surprise that there is a fairly large ratio if its largely renewables, given that renewables are rather variable in ou...

2 months ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Now its been exposed the owners of the companies concerned are presumably busy paying themselves 'special dividends' and deferring paying tax, so that...

2 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Just a couple more thoughts to throw into the mix. (i) For me at least, decarbonisation has be something of a revelation. In reality I bo...

2 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Installer Fitted 9kW Instead of 11kW Heat Pump and Changed MCS Paperwork - What do I do?

@mars I'm surprised that anything related to MCS causes you to be gobsmacked at this stage, unless of course its super good.

2 months ago

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