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@lucia is this regular update available on line still? My Spanish might not be good enough but it would be interesting to try!
I totally support you informing councillors MPs and NESO about potential root causes and hopefully they will understand enough to know ‘something must...
I wasn’t surprised to read that the Telegraph believes that renewable energy was the problem for yesterday’s Iberian power cuts. Clearly it won’t have...
@ccap you will find that Vaillant have a mode called’expanded’ which is weather compensation plus when the house gets too hot (cooking, sun, lots of p...
@fillib what a wonderful result, both for you personally and to prove the case that the recipe for good efficiency is right-sized ashp and volumiser a...
Welcome to the forum@patch and well done for your understanding so far! You’ve made a great start. Once an hour is a very acceptable rate of cycling a...
@benson you asked above about the Jan comparison with other months. We have a COP of 4.0 for January and 4.7 for the October to March 6 months. This...
UFH should never be at 50C since small feet can get burned. I think the regs say 39(?). But your floor covering could be damaged too unless it’s tile ...
20miles away is not too far for a good install. Our installation was done by a guy who lived about 25miles away but some of his subcontractors (who ch...
Key to this discussion is compressor performance. John Cantor addresses this at the end of his very useful YouTube video on ashp cycling. He shows one...
That’s just a guess, and your usage patterns may vary. It might be worth trying to work it out for your circumstances. If you want to improve your c...
If you have a decent export tariff such as Octopus’s 15p then you use the export to build up your cash in your account over the summer and then spend ...
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