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@toodles I'm tempted by Agile (recent and last year's costs looking pretty favourable vs Cosy), and then thinking of using a auto-scheduler for the ch...
@derek-m thanks - will include that in my next round of deliberations, certainly. Though in Northern Scotland it's a less attractive 18.8p/kWh today, ...
After many months of planning, sorting funding, disruption, and weather delays, as of yesterday we now have a SE-facing 6.64kWp PV array consisting of...
Quite a nice illustration of the effect of switching to Cosy - guess which day we started! On the data I've had so far (my smart meter's horribly ...
Usually closer to 300 at present, but we are gradually moving from the childhood to the shower-hogging teenager phase of life, so only anticipate it g...
@allyfish battery VAT: thanks for the reminder, however, ours will be part of a PV install, so I think there's no difference in our case. High DHW u...
Hmm, not sure about that - I think that would just shift the overall temperature up. The thing that triggers a reheat is dropping a certain amount rel...
@dunlorn That's interesting. In our house our comfort preferences specified the opposite: small setback overnight because otherwise it was too wa...
@toodles Quite. I'd first looked at all this seriously back in 2021, but then life got busy and I didn't follow through - man, I was kicking myself la...
@toodles thanks, interesting to hear. I'm not expecting to be able to shift all of our demand into the cheap periods, by any means, but should be able...
Well, that was an expensive weekend, certainly. OAT varied between 0 and -9°C over Sat/Sun, with heating (exc. DHW) consumption of 52.8 and 54.4 kWh ...
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