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Quite true. That’s certainly another way of tackling the problem. To be frank, I don’t care how we rebalance things as long as the burden sits with ...
If you have a household on the bread line and then simply hike the cost of gas with a carbon capture tax, you've backed that household into a corner t...
No problem. Here you are. I agree, but in most cases I suspect those nuances aren't relevant to boiler owners who haven't experienced a heat pu...
I admire your optimism, @batpred, and I'd love to hope you're right. Where you are certainly right, though, is that there's a lot of overlap in what...
Mine's still on and will stay on throughout. However, it is set to prohibit any home heating whenever the OAT is at or above our preferred internal te...
@jamespa, that's a very interesting graph, but I'm getting a very different story. What I've done is to download the last 10 years of prices for both ...
To be frank, in most cases heat pump owners don't care about efficiency either - at least directly. Whilst a minority of us have the luxury of makin...
That word of advice isn't entirely accurate. The heat pump will run a defrost cycle whenever it starts icing up. That is certainly likely at outside...
This is an interesting post that got me thinking in relation to several different aspects of it. Firstly, @deltona, you're right about the power of ...
OK, here's a rather off-the-wall discovery I've made that might be of interest to anyone running Home Assistant. Within HACS is a downloadable and i...
@gutoffowc, I can understand your target and agree entirely. All the installers are eventually competing to achieve the same thing - to provide your h...
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