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For best results with induction hobs use stainless steel or cast iron cookware. Our (admittedly pricey) induction hob comes with a test program that ...
While I won't try to over-ride anyone's personal choices, one of my major considerations for getting an ASHP is air quality and safety. Part of that...
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...
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
An article on funding for heat pumps in case anyone is ...
By Jeff , 30 minutes ago
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
Thanks @editor , @indevolt-uk Subject to any comments ...
By JamesPa , 8 hours ago
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RE: Share Your Experiences with Heat Pump Manufacturer Support
@seoras Sorry to hear that. I found Vaillant very help...
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The Watchdog That Watched and Waited
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RE: GSHP Kaput After 16 Years: New Compressor or Switch to ASHP? Advice Welcome
Cool Energy in Grimsby sell ground source heat pumps an...
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RE: Valliant Heat Pump Settings
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RE: Electricity price predictions
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RE: Two heating zones to one zone
@profzarkov They arent obviously wrong, but the only...
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RE: Towns water feed to air source heat pump system
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RE: My NIBE ASHP Nightmare: No Commissioning, High Bills and a Hostile Installer
As @transparent has observed above, this is not bad, an...
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As I was reading this article Mars, I was thinking that...
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RE: Tell us about your Solar (PV) setup
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RE: Growatt battery disconnected
I doubt this will happen, but I will try and suggest it...
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Understood. That's why I decided from the outset on a ...
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RE: My experience with 3 heat pump surveys: Heat Geek, British Gas & Octopus
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