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RE: Tomato Energy

@jamespa In winter, assuming your DHW tank is within the heated envelope of the house, it offsets the space heating, so no actual loss. It's i...

7 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Tomato Energy

@JamesPa I think the physics is your enemy here. Water has an enormous heat capacity compared to more or less anything else. So it needs a lot of e...

7 months ago
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RE: Tomato Energy

@transparent It's got both - look: They are interactive so if I touch them I get more details. I think they are both quite nifty. 😁 ...

7 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Tomato Energy

@transparent How does their software collect that data? From Smart meters? ... being polled each hour to obtain 'live' data? It's an odd deci...

7 months ago
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RE: Tomato Energy

@downfield I jumped ship from 🐙 Tracker to a Fuse Energy fix - I asked for reviews from users and all were pretty satisfied. It's got big b...

7 months ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

My first winter with a heat pump too. 3 bed bungalow - 90 sqm (ish) plus cellar, average but patchy insulation, built into a hill & a bit expose...

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Adding data centre electricity costs to domestic energy bills?

@transparent @lucia - are you noting all this? I am indeed (and thank you for tagging me) but restraining myself until later as I have soooo ...

7 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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Are MCS are finally improving (some of) their guidelines?
8 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Ripped Off: How UK Homeowners Are Paying Gas Prices for Wind Energy

@editor Why This Must Change The UK government needs to scrap the marginal pricing model and adopt a fairer system that reflects the real costs of ...

8 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

@cathoderay The problem is, unless I have missed something, is he just asserts system volume 'really helps' with defrosts, which I take to mean it re...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

@jamespa Multiple zones (with all that implies), buffer tanks/low loss headers, volumisers (which should be distinguished from buffer tanks as they...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Adding data centre electricity costs to domestic energy bills?

Meant to add this but have been buried under piles of work. My submission: "The proposal to add the cost of an additional allowance for the Networ...

8 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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