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Thanks for your very informative missive! I'm curious as to the monitoring device that you mention - but I presume it is not available to consumers? W...
A footnote: we have installed electricity meters to measure the electricity use of the Ground Source Heat Pump and our borehole pump so that we can ge...
Ok - I've got a quite an experience, now being investigated by the Energy Ombudsman. I switched to Octopus to benefit from their Outgoing Octopus tari...
Hi Tim - Re: your issue with determining efficiency - we have a 17kW Vaillant ground source heat pump that we installed five years ago and have been q...
NEWS - Vaillant replied in writing to my complaint after I sent it to their headquarters in Germany, to the attention of their Chief Executive Officer...
@transparent I'm sending all this info onto him and, hopefully, he will respond himself! I'm really impressed by the work you've done, and by the D...
@transparent Many thanks for this info - we will certainly be doing some work on our system and this will be part of that, thanks to these discussions...
thanks, will order one up and call the electrician asap!
We are not wealthy and we receive the FIT subsidies that you mention, as do all households that installed Solar PV under the scheme. Of course, those ...
@transparent We will definitely look into the battery system that you are describing, and will follow any related discussions to get this installed by...
@derek-m That's what we were told initially, but it is untrue - you will not lose the FIT payments if you switch to Octopus Outgoing for Exports. We w...
I have something new to report. The Ground Source Heat Pump Association told me, when I asked them about corrosion prevention guidelines/methods, that...
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