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I know it's starting to encroach back the other way on your "My home farm" blog, but how about discussions of other sustainable living topics? My ques...
@Jeff, spot on; I'd forgotten that. Octopus are pretty open with that too, explaining the reasoning behind not mixing Octopus Go and Outgoing Octopus.
@editor, specifically no. In fact, you don't even need to be on an Octopus consumption tariff. They state quite explicitly that you can be consuming v...
Not sure if it answers your question, but we’ve recently got our export tariff up and running with Octopus. We went for the agile Octopus Outgoing rat...
Not only would I not hesitate to recommend, I have already done so several times. Doré Woodman covering Surrey and Sussex. Every time I read a horr...
Generally yes. I asked the original question because we'd just had a couple of power cuts courtesy of Eunice and I still had a full battery sitting ...
Wow! And the online supplier I used to use is currently not taking orders for my postcode at all.
@suzyQ, how well insulated is your house? I'm going to bang @derek-m's drum on this point since that's where you can potentially really multiply the e...
Agree entirely. I'm not after the heat pump running at its most efficient, I'm after the most efficient use of the energy at my disposal. There is a d...
I can only speak for my situation, but I'd hope it's fairly typical. My array and battery have been configured with a kind of hierarchy. If the ...
Yes-ish. I got a heat pump rather than a replacement boiler primarily as a lower burden on the world's resources whilst keeping us warm. That's also...
That’s an explanation I can certainly understand. Makes perfect sense. Thank you.
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