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Not a problem, @trbob. Whatever you decide, if your choices are made with wider information available then I'm happy.
I'm not sure if they go as far as North Hampshire, but worth asking the question nonetheless. The people we used for our Ecodan are Dore Woodman, base...
There's quite a lot to unpick there already, and I'm no expert, but just a few thoughts to start. Firstly, it looks to me as if there's some scope f...
Quite right. I was using a rough guesstimate of doubling the panel costs to get to a true installation cost, meaning a break even point of about 4 yea...
@marcexec, that's a very interesting project. Thanks for that.
Yes. I'm on their standard tariff Octopus Outgoing which is 12p per kWh at any time. I've only got a 6.5kWh battery so don't have the capacity to gene...
Bang on. Absolutely, which in most cases means questioning whether heat pump first is the right order. Point taken and agreed, with the modi...
I can't say you're wrong, @bash, or at least if I did I wouldn't be able to say it with any real conviction. However, I still maintain there's a case ...
@sapper117, I may be mistaken, but I took @bash's post to mean making use of the home battery to buy the leccy overnight (cheap rate) but still to run...
@trbob, don't worry about where to house the thread; we're not keen on it being posting in multiple locations (which you haven't done) but definitely ...
I'd say it's a no brainer if you have the wherewithall to do it; not everyone can, at least all in one go. One of the RHH podcasts recently has covere...
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