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@jamespa Hope it works out for you, revisit it in 6 months and you may find prices are down or maybe sodium chemistry is mainstream. Lithium extrac...
@jamespa If you have no nett export then don’t do IOF as it is, by definition, impossible to profit. You need profit to cover the cost of the addit...
@toodles But that’s the deal with the devil, they are paying a premium to use your battery to balance the grid/makes some profit too. I estimate th...
@toodles Sure, me too. The way I look at it, is providing it is acting in your best interest 99% of the time it pays off. It does some weird stuff ...
@jamespa It’s a nett metering tariff, so import and export are the same price. Plus the compatible batteries are generally more expensive. So you h...
@tim441 im not in the industry so you may be correct, I’d heard they were now sub 100USD per kWh for domestic cells and under 80USD for industrial ...
@jamespa With an EV IOF doesn’t work, so no meaning to pay a premium to get a smart battery. LFP battery wholesale costs are plummeting at the m...
@jamespa 1st March onto intelligent flux, back to cosy 1st Oct. IOFlux is amazingly profitable if you have large array and compatible battery, but no ...
@majordennisbloodnok me too. I switch from favourable export to favourable import in October. It makes about two thousand pounds a year difference ...
Do let us know the outcome please. I have reached the conclusion that the homely ML algorithm isn’t fit for purpose as it stands today, it needs impro...
Talking of a smarter homely, I was getting too frequent cycling running in smart mode when OAT got below about 6C, they advised me that it was nothing...
@gery Sorry Gerry, mine is configured by adding an interface board on the heat pump itself. You do know that there are homely installation videos on Y...
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+1 It's not just cloud though. Many devices have repla...
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RE: Electricity price predictions
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RE: What is the main ‘dictator’ of Agile’s unit price?
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