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RE: Solar battery size- advice please!

Thanks for posting this, it's really useful, especially on the total cost of your system + installation costs. That's what always gets me - I know I'm...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: PM recommits UK to Net Zero by 2050 and pledges a “fairer” path to achieving target to ease the financial burden on British families

They've all tooled up for 2030. Switching to a 2035 roadmap now, only for a potential Labour government to change it back to 2030 in 2 years would be ...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Solar battery size- advice please!

@allyfish Yeah, the Cosy tariff is particularly interesting with its two cheap periods: it means that I can charge the same battery twice a day, effec...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Solar battery size- advice please!

One thing to consider about buying a larger battery with the intention of charging cheaply overnight is how fast the battery is able to charge. If you...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: AC vs DC Coupled Batteries (PV + Battery setup)

My thinking was the same as yours - keep the battery on the DC side as there's one fewer AC/DC conversion loss. In my experience, the one-way loss i...

2 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: EV tariffs - too good to be true?

Selling electricity below wholesale cost at any given time is surely not economical in the long run, but I'd imagine that most people aren't as "savvy...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: New Tariff: Octopus Flux

What have folks here made so far? My net electricity cost (i.e. import + standing charge - export) for my first month on Flux has been -£61.26 includi...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Cosy Octopus - New ASHP tarrif

@noob Nope, I have a similar setup to you (full EV rather than PHEV is the main difference I think) and it's the same for me. Flux in summer and Go in...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: New Tariff: Octopus Flux

Thanks! I'll be patient then and wait for my bill. Got a few things going to estimate it already, but it would be nice to know how accurate my calcs a...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: New Tariff: Octopus Flux

I just signed up to Flux as the numbers made loads of sense for me (I'll be a net exporter for at least until September and have a battery too). Whe...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Freeze Stat/Defrost setting….Ecodan in freezing conditions

@Kev-M Understood - thanks for the clarification! Not pedantic at all and I'm always happy to be corrected 🙂 I do have a power trace and it does in...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Freeze Stat/Defrost setting….Ecodan in freezing conditions

I actually have some data on this from my own system: Hopefully you can see this rather ugly graph. What it shows is the flow and return temperatu...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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