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RE: Awful water pressure for watering veg garden

Here's my latest water-butt... 1500-litre tank fed from a 30mm overhead pipe running through a wooden arch. Water feed into that pipe is via a large d...

3 years ago
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RE: New Valiant ASHP system in NE Scotland

An excellent question for your MP me-thinks! Ofgem's online explanations haven't addressed the standing charge issue. In fact I can't even find on t...

3 years ago
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RE: New Valiant ASHP system in NE Scotland

Great. As you can see over here in the topic about sharing battery costs, I'm very much 'on the case'. My next import of LiFePO4 cells (15.6kWh) arr...

3 years ago
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RE: New Valiant ASHP system in NE Scotland

There are graphs on the same Ofgem page which show the wholesale prices for gas & electricity over the past 3 years. Here's the electric one:

3 years ago
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RE: New Valiant ASHP system in NE Scotland

Ofgem have published a page with a breakdown of the increased charges for Spring '22 These charts combine gas and electricity usage for the 'avera...

3 years ago
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RE: New Valiant ASHP system in NE Scotland

The alternative solution would be for homes in renewable-rich areas to install 14kWh+ storage batteries and run as much as possible 'off grid'. That...

3 years ago
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RE: New Valiant ASHP system in NE Scotland

If I tell you the answers to that, it will almost certainly provoke a follow-up letter to your MP! So here goes... Point 1. The historical backgro...

3 years ago
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RE: New Valiant ASHP system in NE Scotland

What about those of us on low incomes whose renewable energy strategy needs the 6-bed mansion to hold all the solar panels? 😎 Since you have a va...

3 years ago
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RE: New Valiant ASHP system in NE Scotland

I'm particularly interested to see the region of the UK where new members with heat-pumps come from. Now that we've just had disproportionate rises ...

3 years ago
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RE: Water Cylinder v Thermal Store

Alternatively if an electrical engineer could shed some light on it, then it could be around 265nm and neatly disassemble the DNA of any lurking legio...

3 years ago
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RE: Battle of the charging technologies

Wireless charging from the road is an adventurous prediction @majordennisbloodnok and most certainly worthy of a Goon Show script. Static inductive ...

3 years ago
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RE: Battle of the charging technologies

Thanks for those insights @robl Before I read the above about your participation in the OVO/Kaluza V2G Trial, I'd just posted an overview of it in re...

3 years ago
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