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Last seen: Apr 25, 2026
@tim441 since you have givenergy batteries you can use Octopus R&D. It was very quick to set up and allows multiple charge slots per day and charg...
@lucia Back to finances! we are at the very beginning of the control journey all to reduce electricity bills. For us the key question is when and how ...
@lucia excellent info about Spain. There’s nothing in the 60+ pages about how other countries do it so your reply above would be a useful input to the...
GivEnergy 9.5kWh with AC3 inverter
This topic has recently hit the news the local MP wants the islanders in fuel poverty to benefit rather than the turbines stop generating
Done @editor saying the electricity to gas price ratio needs to be much less than 4 to encourage the move to electric heating. So all policy costs sho...
@ellyse feel free to keep asking! Especially when you get responses from surveyors that you want help to understand or are not convinced by.
I’ve no issues with an annual service of an ashp in particular to keep the warranty up. But I’ve noticed on our new hot water cylinder that it states ...
I believe that everyone who is considering getting a heat pump, whether free like @ellyse or paying about half (us with the BUS grant) should investig...
The one point of what you’ve shared so that concerns me most is the phrase “each seemed to have limited permissions to discuss it”. Any installer or s...
Question first to @lucia Why? what each of us need is a method of controlling the temperature of our house. Each ashp has an interface to do that. T...
Your installer’s suggestion of 12+6 is the best suggestion. You can always add more blocks (with its own optimiser) later. Aas a bungalow you avoid ...
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