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I have the 🐙 annual service on Friday so will specifically ask for rodent inspection (seeing as I live rurally). Hopefully not. However, the...
Busman's holiday. 🫢😂
@editor So… who’s given in and turned the heating on already? Whose has come on by itself? And who’s holding out for as long as humanly possible? ...
To unpack this a little.... 1) how many of us in this forum would've paid for heat pumps without the BUS grant? 2) A big part of Europe has had ai...
The problem is not particularly about 'interconnectors' which are merely a symptom, (or propaganda about 'Russians'), the problem is a privatised grid...
@jamespa Others work such that you can only program setbacks (or set forwards) by bouncing off an on/off sensor/thermostat the rest of the time, or u...
@temperature_gradient And then there's the running costs, where the benefit of the heat-pump's hugely better efficiency is entirely absorbed by the...
Someone in my 🐙 (unofficial) heat pump FB group has painted their Daikin matt black. They cleared it in writing with Daikin first to make sure...
@tim441 One thing we can be sure of is that whatever contracts say the Interconnectors from Europe will not supply UK if there is any sort of power sh...
@jamespa Many claim we have the highest electricity prices in Europe (although so far as I can tell thats not actually true, but also as far as I can ...
@transparent The Norwegian co-owner, Stattnet, has software called Nordpool. which allows the seller's electricity to be re-sold for the best price el...
@JamesPa Given what you say about the day ahead price being an unreliable indicator of wholesale price it's thus possible that this change in ratio ...
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