Last seen: Aug 28, 2025
@cathyem1 Should we be wary of these ‘Upstart’ companies that introduce very low (as I understand it anyway) tariffs? They are certainly not the only ...
@morgan Oh! A Buffer Tank! 😉 Toodles.
@jamespa If it is true - then surely we have the makings of a lobbying group! Toodles.
@transparent I suspect that any bucket would come back full of promises to donate in the next parliament, should they be re-elected! 😉
@editor The best things are worth waiting for!😉 Toodles.
@ianmk13 From other reports, it looks as though January was a rather dull month for most of us solar hunters! 2024 was a total of 6 MWh but 2023 was 6...
Thank you for that information @transparent, my G99 application for 8.96kWp. was processed (took some 12 weeks) without a query and I have not persona...
@ianmk13 Hence my mentioning of ‘single phase’; I understand about phase imbalance and I have no idea if my local substation is monitored in such a wa...
When our battery is charging at 10 kW and the DHW is also taking 3 kW, the heat pump is taking 2 kW whilst the house ‘background load’ may be up to a ...
@julianc It will also be interesting to see if Agile rates return to somewhere near last Spring’s prices again, (but I’ll not hold my breath!). I m...
@terry1812 Had we gone with OE, we would have done so. Their ‘scope of installations’ did not extend to the peculiarities of our needs at that time th...
@terry1812 Octopus carried out a very thorough survey with an electrician and a plumber both here for three hours; they measured just about everything...
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@editor Thanks Mars, much appreciated.
By DREI , 2 hours ago
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RE: Ecodan & MelCloud scheduling
Yes, the 2 are separate. To add to the complex desig...
By HCas , 19 hours ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@diverted-energy so that’s where I think you are wrong....
By JulianC , 20 hours ago
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
I think there may be a little confusion in the wording ...
By Old_Scientist , 1 day ago
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I should clarify that the FoxESS web interface is not l...
By Old_Scientist , 1 day ago
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
Previous was vented and I needed a shower pump and a ve...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Mitsu Wireless Controller and MelCloud
@robs Hi Rob, At the end of a note to Mitsu UK, thank...
By DavidAlgarve , 2 days ago
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RE: Why so many sigenergi installer recommendations?
@adamk Tesla is a great option, it’s also one we instal...
By SAEnergy , 2 days ago
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RE: Rodents! A word of warning for heat pump owners
Hradline in Telegraph: Brace for plague of rats after s...
By Tim441 , 2 days ago
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RE: Flexi-Orb Heat Pump Scheme: A Game-Changer for the UK's Heat Pump Industry
As a potential heat pump customer, it would be good to ...
By Temperature_Gradient , 3 days ago
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RE: Octopus replacing the fixed 15p/kWh export rate with a market tracking one
@trbob I have just extracted the details for Agile Expo...
By Toodles , 3 days ago
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners – Bodge Buster & From Zero To Heat Pump Hero
The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps is less than a month a...
By Mars , 3 days ago
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
@editor Hi Mars, We have just installed a Grant Aerona...
By GrahamF , 4 days ago
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RE: Sanity check please. Battery storage and inverter sizing.
There are MCS guidelines about how close to the edge/ri...
By Old_Scientist , 4 days ago
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RE: Balancing financial efficiency and comfort using the Octopus Cosy tariff
I estimated our usage on the following basis. The mos...
By Old_Scientist , 4 days ago
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@editor Something changed in this last 12 months, they ...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 5 days ago
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?
Just to give a sense of scale, I've used the CCW water ...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 6 days ago
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RE: Powerwall 3 or Myenergi or something else?
We have a Tesla Powerwall 3, recently installed, so I m...
By Old_Scientist , 7 days ago
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RE: Mitsubishi PAR-WT60R-E Wireless Controller installation
@morgan They have been paired once but it was thought b...
By DavidAlgarve , 1 week ago
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RE: Isolating the system for a planned power cut
A great many ground-mounted local substation transforme...
By Transparent , 1 week ago
