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Having used ToU tariffs for a couple years now, I fear I'm in the minority of people who would respond favourably to financial incentives. My wife and...
@uknick No Open Energy Monitoring here I'm afraid. I do have a MID electricity meter fitted that records ASHP electrical usage (a bit like those used ...
I'm torn on this. The issue I see is that when one performs a retrofit (heat pump installation onto existing heating system), the installer often has ...
Out of interest, I've just had a look back at my radiators spreadsheet, and at a flow temp of 35C (which is as high as we are ever going to run), my l...
My heat pump is maybe 3 times oversized on paper being a 12kW unit and my heat loss to date has been around 4kW, although we do not heat the house to ...
Following on from @jamespa excellent answer(s), it really all starts with the heat loss figure. If you know the heat loss for the property (and even b...
@papahuhu Yes, a net metering tariff where import and export are the same price seems a bit of a paradox where import prices are rising at the same ti...
@Toodles Agreed. Perhaps I'm too much of a perfectionist, always trying to squeeze that last couple percent performance out of the system. However, th...
Yes, I'm guessing it was kind of easy (less costly) for them to delay until 1st March as I imagine most people are not exporting any significant amoun...
Me too. Another reason to consider IOF in summer, now effectively paying double SEG rates for export? I've not seen anything (yet) about IOF rates cha...
@upnorthandpersonal thank you for sharing details of your home - I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog posts about your off grid home. Very impressiv...
Indeed, but HMRC subsequently rejected their claim and ruled that all income from Ripple was taxable as they failed the first test listed above: 1. ...
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RE: Heat pump branding. Clever, contemporary… or a bit too much?
@jamespa I wonder if there ever was an equivalent situa...
By Toodles , 10 minutes ago
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If you freeze water it expands. That's been a big probl...
By EtchedPixels , 1 hour ago
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This post is about how I successfully configured a buff...
By Tony.Stolz , 2 hours ago
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The installer visited yesterday and suggested the noise...
By JamesChatz , 3 hours ago
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RE: Heat Geek installations: share your experiences
I struggled with this problem as well. An independent t...
By L8Again , 4 hours ago
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
Your house sounds a lot like mine. 2 surveyors each sp...
By JamesPa , 6 hours ago
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RE: Heat Geek Zero Disrupt: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
Thats true only if you do the wrong experiment. Done c...
By JamesPa , 6 hours ago
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RE: How should the Boiler Upgrade Scheme be reformed?
@temperature_gradient Isn't that just describing a regu...
By Prunus , 7 hours ago
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RE: battery storage without solar
As of October 1st they need specific qualifications to ...
By EtchedPixels , 19 hours ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
With regards to the BUS grant raid, I gave it more thou...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 20 hours ago
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RE: Why are ASHP installs so expensive?
The whole system seems to work on the basis of...
By ian33a , 21 hours ago
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
Good plan. If you can get half hourly meter readings a...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Heat Pumps Without Grants: Would You Have Installed One & Will You Now?
@editor Most certainly. The heat pump was an ideal s...
By Abernyte , 1 day ago
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?
Yep I caught our slow leak from a £100 bill rise 8)
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