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REFCOM and Cornish Trading Standards successfully prosecuted heat-pump installer, Adrian Miles, who was adding coolant to heat-pumps without the neces...
Absolutely! The regulatory obstacles were addressed in the Automated Vehicles Act (May 2024). And I agree with you that rural communities offer th...
@toodles - you might want to check @judith's credentials before posting further on that point! Even the text at the foot of her posts gives an indic...
Phase shift by distribution transformers Grid transformers are designed for maximum efficiency.To achieve this, the output frequency usually gets ph...
zero point one what? percent?kilowatts? I can't give a straight answer to that question.Unlike the rest of you, I have multiple arrays with di...
True @david999 - not all properties have three-phase available.I live in a rural area with long overhead 11kV cable runs to reach farms and hamlets.Th...
Thank you @ellyse Rochdale isn't an area I'm familiar with, and I don't have the network maps for your regional distribution grid. However, if I w...
I'm going to pick up a few of those points @ellyse I don't think that's good enough. This is one of the points which got picked up in the House...
Let me explain that term, then we can more clearly use it this discussion. The DNOs use the words looped and shared to describe similar situations i...
Yes!!I absolutely agree. 3-phase heat pumps and EV chargers would be so much better for the local distribution grid. Sad, but true.That app...
Apologies for arriving 'late' to this topic. We've been discussing the change from single-phase to 3-phase over here on a topic about DIY Solar u...
Erm... I carefully chose the adjective many when referring to installers.I deliberately didn't write 'major' or 'the majority of' installers. And wh...
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