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Governments of all flavours use taxation and subsidies to encourage the public to make desirable decisions BUT circumstances change and policies need ...
I am not convinced that a water meter supports your point. I have had one for years and so had lost track of non-metered costs, but my neighbours (pen...
I admit that the Cosy tariff encourages a bit of battery thrashing and I fully engaged in that with eyes wide open. I could not afford the switch to ...
From the thisistsaffordshire web page it is indeed impossible to determine how recent that article is, so it is easy to see how confusion can arise. ...
Bear in mind that my maximum daily draw over winter was a tad under 50kWh, typically it was around the 30kWh mark, which the battery took the sting ou...
I have just rechecked my figures: I averaged just on 14p overall, it was just over 15p on the 9 February bill, and back down to 14p on 9 March bill ...
Agree that for Cosy to work well over winter a battery is essential. But it need not necessarily be a large capacity. As an example, my teeny 5kWh ...
Yes, totally understand how you can manage the Vailant, and that output reduction is commonplace, it makes total sense. I like how you utilise it.Octo...
And that is precisely the point I have made following a couple of TJ's pearls of wisdom on FB. There WAS an official email issued, setting out that hu...
And that is precisely the point I have made following a couple of TJ's pearls of wisdom on FB. There WAS an official email issued, setting out that hu...
To be fair to Octopus, TJ is quoted as advising that hush mode is not appropriate to peak demand season. 😀
Yes, that is exactly my point. I am no Luddite, I have used Agile and controlled it through a beta Octopus Labs app which was actually easy to use and...
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