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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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