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@chandykris I shall keep my eye on the OE app to see how this pans out but, as far as I am aware that SC is sacrosanct and cannot be by-passed by any ...
@agentgeorge We had the gas meter removed two years ago and Octopus Energy connected an earth bond cable in a similar fashion. We were left with an ex...
@old_scientist 😊 Toodles
@jeff And now for something I have never noticed before! I have had a few days recently where no grid energy has been used by us at all; on those days...
@jeff Many, Many thanks Jeff, that is far easier to read! I hope they can manage to cause Data Centre plans to evolve around ‘power plenty’ areas - it...
@editor If it is of any interest, we had the BUS grant, we replaced the gas boiler with an ASHP but no-one even questioned the gas fire we had for sup...
@jeff I am very sorry, but with my very limited sight, that report is definitely TL and therefore, I DR, would anyone care to waste their valuable tim...
@old_scientist Whereas, with battery storage, I find the ‘security blanket’ of Cosy cheapest rate (3 + 3 + 2 hours per day), easy on the management si...
@sunandair Without battery storage, I am not sure that OE’s Cosy would provide any benefit, but here are the rates in my area (SE). Regards, Toodles.
@old_scientist I am attaching the consumption and solar production figures in kWh and in monetary value for last year. Cosy tariff applied along with ...
@old_scientist Another point I might have made a little more clearly is that I put ‘consumption’ for 2025 as this figure includes some 600+ kWh used j...
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