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RE: Question for ASHP installers: What proportion of your initial surveys/ site visits follow through to an installation?

@hamish-mcmichael the entire market for heat-pump installations is rather like the early days of double-glazing. The main difference this time is that...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

Only your Energy Supplier, Octopus, have the access rights to send the required commands and data. I'd suggest that you email them with a link to th...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

Yes. Simon and I did some exploratory investigations on this on the OVO Forum last year, although much of that is held in a private area called the Te...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: PAS2035

Hi @hamish-mcmichael and welcome to the forum. Your intro/CV is interesting... but not necessarily for the reason you were thinking of! This Forum...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

Good point. Anyone else reading here, please do the same and intervene if I use a term which I don't explain. In this case I'd like to offer a new d...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

Well I'm glad to see some adventurous thinking @mjr Let's keep the discussion going and see where this leads. Firstly there are only five ALCS cha...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Solutions are available @editor - ones which could be targeted at the most needy far better than the '£250 to everyone' which the government has just ...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

It is a fine detail... but alas, you've jumped to the wrong conclusion. 😟 The internal offset timing within our Smart Meter Comms Hubs is precisely...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

If you'd like to know more, then there's a rich repository of published material in Ofgem's archives, such as this Presentation by Tim Bailey. He was ...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

Yes @derek-m that's how the National Smart Meter Network was always intended to operate. It was designed back in 2013 during the coalition government,...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

Thanks @derek-m but I'm still unsure that I've adequately clarified the system. No one controls the offset. Each Comms Hub is implanted with a rando...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Spotted this re. Octopus on another forum

I think I haven't explained the system sufficiently clearly. Octopus cannot inform a customer of the meter time-offset because they don't know it th...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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