Last seen: Sep 9, 2025
Is that heat loss, or maximum output of the ASHP? Understand they should be fairly close in a good system, but both vary by outside temperatures.
Community energy installations are a great idea, but the public are made afraid by the press, so its unlikely to happen. Hoping to be proven wrong!
It's windy down South today, which means our electricity is dirty and expensive because most of the wind turbines are elsewhere.
I'm on Tracker at the moment and intend to remain on it for the first year of ASHP running so I have the best idea of cost comparison. To me Cosy se...
@lucia I think my point was even if it is true, the interconnection is still valuable for both nations, and any scary stories are to be put into conte...
Two nuclear plants extended a further year into 2028. While I'm not a fan of nuclear in principle, sweating the assets we already have seems reasonab...
Seems a lease to a 3rd party to place a battery inside the boundary would solve that, but I'm sure there are "reasons" why that "cannot" be done. Pur...
Each village appears to have an entire aspect where there looks to be no development at all, you can travel in that direction and see no solar at all,...
I don't mind a field of solar panels, especially if they support biodiversity and we're built on class 3 or lower farmland, which is itself an industr...
I do think this is in part locational, there is far too much renewables in Scotland and the North, and nowhere near enough in the South, caused at lea...
@drei my career has been in Procurement so dealing with lifetime costs is part of my DNA. For our install the annual service cost will basically be ...
@jamespa that 2011 to 2021 period was probably when "policy costs" were loaded disproportionately onto electricity
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