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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Excess elec is a financial issue, rather than a green one; it will always find a good home, you just might not get paid for it! At the m...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg I expect the heatexchanger box will already be insulated inside. If it's easy to open, take a look and pics are always good! I'm suggesti...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg I think it is fine to insulate controls, just you can't get to them so easily. It's electrical stuff that shouldn't be, as it is a heat so...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg There is a lot of stuff there, it’s a neat job. Have I understood correctly: A is a heatexchanger box, likely glycol:water, probably has a ...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Heatpumps will give a poor COP heating dhw - they have to run hot which they don't like, and there's often a lot of pipework that gets heat...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Indra V2H Trial

@transparent Yes, flash to V2H. The reason to add extra meters would be to evaluate the round trip inverter-car-inverter performance. There is ...

4 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Indra V2H Trial

@jeff I'm pretty sure they are the same unit! We are still on the Ovo V2G trial, it finishes in a few weeks. The original installation involved a cu...

4 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Ice Energy Step Controller Settings

@alanb Hope you’re getting over the lurgie, there’s a lot of it about! I can understand you wanting to reduce your electricity use, it is high. Can ...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Salt heat batteries

I found a website with a bit more technical writing on it: I haven't seen the efficiency of it anywhere, and I think it needs a source of heat of...

4 years ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: Electricity price predictions

@Mars I know you have a very large property, which will have a large surface area so lots of places for heat to leak out. Would EWI (External Wall In...

4 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring, Electrics & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Polly Toynbee has an article in the guardian, wanting to get rid of the standing charge - and even to go beyond that and make initial energy use free,...

4 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring, Electrics & Providers
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RE: Heat recovery systems

@heat-pump-newbie We have a Vent Axia Sentinel Kinetic Plus BH. Which I recommend, had it maybe 8 years, never gone wrong. It has a kitchen extra...

4 years ago
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