Last seen: Aug 29, 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...
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RE: Ecodan & MelCloud scheduling
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I should clarify that the FoxESS web interface is not l...
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RE: Sanity check please. Battery storage and inverter sizing.
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@editor Something changed in this last 12 months, they ...
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