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@tim441 Yes, I too am waiting for V2H before I get an EV or new home batteries. For retirees or home workers, with a car spending most of the time on ...
@tim441 Thank you. We are at 300m2 and mid 70s vintage, but no UFH, so probably running with similar efficiencies. Although I keep my reference room a...
@tim441 Tim, do you mind if I ask how much power does your heat pump consume in a year please?I have a similarly sized 16kW unit and wonder if my a...
@toodles Very nice. Ours was the opposite, about 10% down on mean for August. Finally won my battle with the insulation remediation firm that imp...
@old_scientist Yes, an EV changes everything drastically, unless you are just going to do a few hundred miles a year. I intentionally didn’t get one, ...
@old_scientist Have you ran the numbers as to which cosy tariff for the winter ie variable or fixed? Last year they offered 2 fixed, one slightly m...
@toodles Did you just have that alert on your phone? It genuinely scared the crap out of me, I thought there was an incoming ICBM! Not a disposable bb...
@toodles I understand those few degrees colder have a disproportional impact on running costs and cause damage to the produce too. You’ve certainly ch...
@majordennisbloodnok Newer, half decent kitchen equipment runs much leaner than it used to. We replaced a series of terrible Samsung American style fr...
@majordennisbloodnok It can’t be the powerwalls, mine are running and my total 24 hr house load is about 7 kWh. This is for a fully electric 300m2 ...
@toodles A daily court feast for luncheon would be enough to explain it. I’m jealous, sat here looking at a curly cheese sandwich, a very civilised w...
Looking at the PW trace, there’s a larger than typical cyclic base load. My money would be on a refrigeration compressor, either a massive one or a pr...
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