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RE: Electricity price predictions

Worryingly, my son said to me the other day "if your generation don't care, why should we?" when I asked him why he doesn't bother using the recycling...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Exactly this! It's far easier to throw mud than to offer solutions, or even engage in constructive debate. Even the Tories are now leaning in the ...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?

Similar situation here (we have a PW3 and ASHP+solar), with a strategy of using Octopus Cosy during the winter with the battery allowing us to achieve...

3 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Electricity price predictions

As an investor in multiple listed renewable companies on the FTSE, I can assure you I'm not making a lot of money doing nothing. In fact, 6 of the 7 l...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?

I think there may be a little confusion in the wording here. When applying for a G99 to connect equipment to the grid for export, the grid is imp...

3 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Good argument. I have long been of the view that some of the policy costs should be shifted away from electricity and onto gas under the polluter pays...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: The Battery Battle

I should clarify that the FoxESS web interface is not local (you are not logging into a web interface on the hardware itself). It is still cloud based...

3 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: The Battery Battle

I have/had a basic non-hybrid FoxESS inverter. The software/App is nice enough, but the main downside for me was it's not real time - it uploads data ...

3 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House

We got lucky and hit gold with our installer. Rather than size radiators to a design temp, we came at it from the opposite direction of lets measure t...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: The Battery Battle

I agree. I think a lot of it comes down to people's resistance to change, and an expectation of an experience similar to what they had before with an ...

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

Where did you see that? My understanding is simply that Octopus Outgoing is no longer a fixed tariff, but is now more like a standard variable rate ...

3 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Sanity check please. Battery storage and inverter sizing.

There are MCS guidelines about how close to the edge/ridge of a roof panels can go, and if they are MCS accredited then they will have to stick to tho...

3 months ago
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Energy Storage
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