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RE: Heat Batteries

No. The starting point must still be price. Not only is Price the concept which consumers are already used to, and therefore able to be built upon,b...

3 months ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: Heat Batteries

Yes, that's precisely what I mean. And it's load-leveling which I've been looking into since 2018 when I first starting monitoring substations. I'...

3 months ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: Heat Batteries

Unless DESNZ can add clarity, I'm afraid that the definition of "the problem" will continue to elude us. They've obviously been listening to represe...

3 months ago
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RE: Heat Batteries

That's a crucial question which the SSES Consultations haven't properly addressed. The crux of their argument is that we need to reduce demand durin...

3 months ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: Heat Batteries

I'm minded to copy the above post from @jamespa directly to the manager of the SSES Programme. They are unaware of the science behind heat-pumps, a...

3 months ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: Heat Batteries

The SSES Team has not yet suggested any particular time-frame for which HPs would be switched off...and this would probably be a decision to be made b...

3 months ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: Repiping and Reconfiguring our Heat Pump System Including Removing the Buffer Tank - Heat Pump Retrofix

Well that's going to be a problem. Whilst I'd like the benefit of the doubt, I'm not an installer.   Can someone please post the link to th...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Repiping and Reconfiguring our Heat Pump System Including Removing the Buffer Tank - Heat Pump Retrofix

That's a strategy which DESNZ hasn't considered. The advantage of a cardboard ASHP is that you can at least obtain heat by setting fire to it on the...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Repiping and Reconfiguring our Heat Pump System Including Removing the Buffer Tank - Heat Pump Retrofix

We'd only need it for a few minutes at a time.   I already have sufficient (portable) battery capacity and a collection of off-grid invert...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Repiping and Reconfiguring our Heat Pump System Including Removing the Buffer Tank - Heat Pump Retrofix

I have a certain amount of "exhibition equipment" but an exhibition stand doesn't come cheap! We'd really need a mock-up of a heat-pump installatio...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Thanks Lucia. I'll set aside some time to go through this. For others to note, over-voltage is more common that one might suppose. Here's an area-...

3 months ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Repiping and Reconfiguring our Heat Pump System Including Removing the Buffer Tank - Heat Pump Retrofix

We could ask MCS to pay for a RHH Forum Stand next to theirs. If the Moderator Team plus a few others could staff that stand for the duration of the...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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