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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

Given the rates are approximately 23p/30p, I'm assuming IOF would fully discharge your battery each evening during the peak at 30p, and then you'd imp...

7 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

That's great news! I've not done a detailed analysis, but when I took a quick look, IOF looked like a good choice once you become a next exporter (s...

7 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Volumisers in Heat Pump Systems: Does Placement Matter?

If your heat loss is 11kW and your heat pump is struggling to meet that (what is the actual heat output at 0C to -2C?), then the system may well strug...

7 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Volumisers in Heat Pump Systems: Does Placement Matter?

The normal process is for the circulating pumps to continue running, as they need to circulate warm water from the radiators (or DHW) to the heat pump...

7 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Battery storage to run Heat Pump.

Not necessarily. Each DNO application is treated on it's merits, and they will allow it if they can. The key determining factor is likely the spare ca...

7 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

Interesting to hear how that works for you. We have a heat pump and solar, but no battery and we are on Octopus Cosy. We load shift as much as pos...

7 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Have Consumers Been Lied to About the Efficiency of Heat Pumps Made in China?

Would be nice to see some data for Midea units, as these are widely rebadged and used by a number of major 'manufacturers' I believe.

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Battery storage to run Heat Pump.

Exactly, and as in my case above, we may have left it too late as our neighbours have sucked up all the local capacity leaving us with just the standa...

7 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Battery storage to run Heat Pump.

I'm in a similar boat, except I have 3.6kWp of solar too. I currently have an application in to install a Tesla PW3 and additional 3.6kWp of solar, bu...

7 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Battery storage to run Heat Pump.

I think I watched the same video as @broadsman. I'm pretty sure that will only apply to Octopus' own Cosy heat pumps, over which they have far greater...

7 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: What is the best strategy for operating a very oversized heat pump?

I think you are right to frame the question as you did, as ToU tariffs are very relevant to any heat pump strategy (at least for those who are on them...

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: What is the best strategy for operating a very oversized heat pump?

I don't know how the Samsung does it, but what I can tell you is the power draw reduces as the flow temps approach the desired set point. It seems to ...

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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