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@njtt Great news that you've had it back approved. I found the DNO (NG in my case) were more than reasonable and very helpful.
Natural gas (or LNG), widely used in the production of electricity in Europe and the UK, isn't a product of crude oil, so the pricing of the two are i...
At least your installer flagged it as an issue before the installation. My ECO4 installer never bothered to inform the DNO that they'd installed a 12k...
Yes, I've not had a chance to really play with settings yet as we've not experienced a winter, but because I assume I'd be cycling (of some descriptio...
@johnmo, I'd taken it from John Cantor's video here, see the slide from ecoforest towards the end of the video at 20:08min which shows efficien...
@editor Yes, I have no doubt that we will not be cold in winter. It's generally mild where we are, and our design temp was -1.9C, but I'm sure we are ...
My neighbour had a similar install through the Local Authority - he qualified on health grounds (definitely not on low income or means tested benefits...
I signed up initially and got confirmation for the first session on 15 Aug. I didn't receive any notification of the session on 18th Aug, but did rece...
The Ripple calculator says annual savings of £385 for 2,892 Watts, 7,000 kWh of electricity per year (at a cost of £4961), which works out at 5.5p per...
Where did you get this? I do not believe this is correct, or at least it wasn't last time I looked into Ripple. The amount you receive is based on y...
I would guestimate it would be quite low. Most solar generation will occur in summer when heat pump usage will be minimal. Our own small 3.6kW solar a...
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