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RE: Heat Pumps Without Grants: Would You Have Installed One & Will You Now?

@jamespa I’m less inclined to believe the shift of taxes onto electricity was to cripple the transition as unintended consequences. There’s plenty of ...

2 days ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Gov wants to alter our FIT contracts from rpi to cpi

We have the original FIT tariff (very nice indeed thanks) and it’s long since paid for. Without finding the paperwork it was ‘inflation linked’. So ...

4 days ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

@editor contuning your theme of MCS. I started reading the audit committee investigation on the insulation scandal and Ian Rippon was explaining how g...

4 days ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: The Hidden Secret to a Successful Heat Pump: Pipe Size Matters

@colinc good luck with your project! UFH is the absolute best from both comfort and ASHP efficiency. We have it in the extension and wish we had elsew...

4 days ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Heat Pumps Without Grants: Would You Have Installed One & Will You Now?

Yes! Our method of working is one of us does the analysis/ research (which is me on renewable stuff) and the other checks the logic and arithmetic. It...

4 days ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Heat Pumps Without Grants: Would You Have Installed One & Will You Now?

Quite honestly I don’t know. We’re very pleased with our system, and are gas free, so we save money each year. But the payback time (at current pric...

6 days ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Anyone able to provide some feedback before I make my finale decision? Samsung vs Baxi vs Vaillant

we have a 7kW Valliant which has been running quietly and well for a year with a very satisfying SCOP of 4.7. Other people have had noise issues eg @j...

6 days ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Bosch CS5800i 5kW - Experience So Far

I’ve been reading to find out about the Bosch and you’re learning fast. Just for info our Vaillant is giving a cop of 5-6 in this mild weather. Our de...

1 week ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: When will fusion be producing energy?

From the time I was a physics undergraduate it’s been 25 years off. I’ve now retired and it’s still 25 years off. So it’s had a lot of investment th...

3 weeks ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Is it mad to think there should be a minimum SCOP for UK heat pump installs?

Sadly I think it is mad. If the BUS is not granted for too low a system SCOP (I forget the exact system interface definitions and numbers) then who pa...

3 weeks ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: My experience with 3 heat pump surveys: Heat Geek, British Gas & Octopus

The air changes per hour in the leakage values is the most guessed parameter. Assessors have guidelines based on the house build date. If you have an ...

4 weeks ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

@mike-patrick Michael De Podestahas had extensive ‘fun’ with EPCs. He eventually got the basic mistake of rating an Ashp as ‘poor electric heating’ ch...

4 weeks ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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