Last seen: May 13, 2025
@jancold Double wow! 😳 Someone chasing a bonus? Or commission payments? My sales person was fairly aggressive but not that much. Thanks f...
@jancold Stu , my surveyor said Kraken sometimes replaces radiators with ones of less output which has to be manually corrected, either he forgot o...
What Kraken software glitch? 🙈 If you can do your own rad changes there's no worry - me, I've yet to attempt any plumbing at that level, kit...
@transparent For generation & storage sites there is no dedicated command & control pathway such as we have with Smart Meters. Each site ...
@jancold Yay! Nice! Would you like my referral code? Then we both get £100 off. 😁 They want to change a rad for lower output? No way, that's...
@transparent According to Modo: "Skip rate” refers to how often assets or technology types get skipped in the Balancing Mechanism". For once it actu...
@transparent I watched that video already. It was interesting - she's quite skilled at explaining technical complexity to beginners like me. Althoug...
@toodles As it is my birthday today, I had to request my Amazon Echo to ‘Play BBC Sounds’ for this programme when I returned from a very enjoyable ...
@transparent I'm going to suggest that the majority of grid-tied storage batteries on the DESNZ database are rated at 49.9MW. So this was proba...
@johnmo If you compared to a 45 design at -7 you are taking a 20% increase in heating costs, if you are forced to flow at 55. @ivanopinion ...
@johnmo So does the -1.3 Deg design comply with the 99.6% of the year. So no more that 1.5 days below -1.3 degs? Definitely not! Don't get me w...
@transparent But in their submission to the (previous) Parliamentary Select Committee on ESNZ in Sept'23, National Grid ESO (RIP) provided a foreca...
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Good luck, I hope it all works out!
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