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@diverted-energy well let's hope not, the only glimmer of hope in the Iran situation is Iran is an ally of China, and China heavily relies on oil from...
@editor we are in the window for OFGEM price cap calculation for July-September, so if Trump's estimate of action is 4-5 weeks then that will almost c...
@bash I don't understand your point, or why you are making it. To me, these things are about long term average, not cherry picking a few bad days in ...
@batpred I think we must be having different conversations. I self consumed ~50% of my annual solar generation before the heat pump. Based on the 8...
@bash for me solar is a guaranteed payback, irrelevant of export. Increasing demand with the heat pump, just increases solar self consumption and mak...
@majordennisbloodnok I agree, for me the calculation is simple; solar PV is cheap, reliable, and guarantees a payback - it's the gateway drug of the e...
Solar PV is the way to collapse that spark gap, my solar install LCOE is 8p/kWh and the heat pump is using a lot of that. I haven't enough data to an...
Or in areas where there is curtailment of renewables because the transmission network needs upgrading, suck up that energy close to source. Of cours...
@jeff I hope some of that huge gas investment is to pay Centrica to store gas in Rough, otherwise the UK is at risk of running out of gas, say if a Ru...
LOL To be fair, Reform de la Mancha "policy" if it can really be called that, seems to change almost weekly (keeps them in the news cycle). As such...
@jeff to be honest I'd forgotten that they adjust for the quarterly updates, so that's good news. I don't know how they run Tracker, but I would thi...
@jeff I'm on Octopus Tracker, recent price range has been 12.44 to 26.45p/kWh. I suppose the average rate has been around 21.5p. If price cap gets ...
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
Have either quote provided room by room heat loss calcu...
By Old_Scientist , 11 hours ago
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RE: Jokes and fun posts about heat pumps and renewables
@jamespa Normally, we have rainwater in our water butts...
By Toodles , 2 days ago
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
@old_scientist if you are going DIY then you may wan...
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
After a short while that was followed by the 'power war...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: Samsung heat pump - data cable issue
That's well done. Cable is the correct type (LIYCY = 2x...
By bobflux , 2 days ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
I agree, we will find out at the next budget whether th...
By Old_Scientist , 2 days ago
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
@editor I went through HG website, so should be ok for ...
By sttpd1917 , 3 days ago
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Who did the Freedom Heat Pump cloud server and what did...
By Mars , 3 days ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
Reading between the lines of what octopus are doing wit...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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RE: Air to air bus grant installer anywhere
The through wall two hole ones have their place (listed...
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I hope it goes ok, Hon can be hard to set up IF the sof...
By Graham Hendra , 3 days ago
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@clockworks Hi, So there is a big difference between st...
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@editor wellvery comprehensive answer. I will get all i...
By Keithb , 3 days ago
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RE: Advice on my Heat Pump Journey: Old Stone Built Detached Cottage
all good advice I will follow this up
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Heat of vaporization of water is 2.25 MJ/kg (0.625 kWh/...
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