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@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...
Very much agree. Even with RHI (and we were one of the last to get in under this scheme), it's only necessary in some cases. We, for instance, do not ...
I would say you've probably chosen the most complicated of the alternatives to set up and it might well not be right for quite a few others for exactl...
To be frank, that doesn't entirely surprise me. At face value, there seem to be two obvious issues in play at the same time: The cost differenti...
Yes-ish. The Home Assistant companion app allows for an internal and an external address for your HA instance. If it can't connect to the internal i...
Quite possibly not, @kevh. Something that seems to be particularly important for a lot of GivEnergy customers is the ability to control their setup ...
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