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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

Yes @jamespa the entirety of the DESNZ and Ofgem innovation and regulatory strategies are based on attracting commercial companies to get involved.The...

8 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

I think V2G is a potential ingredient.However the V2G Trial undertaken by Kaluza/OVO 4 years ago could only use Nissen Leaf cars because they have a C...

8 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

The demand from each house is dictated by the actions of its occupants. If they're on a ToU Tariff, then the household might alter their demand acco...

8 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

When I responded that that DESNZ consultation on Delivering Smart and Secure Electricity System, my first observation about the DSR Proposals was that...

8 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

DESNZ is particularly keen on developing new standards for Heat Pumps and other Energy Smart Appliances (ESAs) at the moment. In April'24 they opene...

8 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Do thick walls make for warm houses?

The terms 'high thermal mass' and 'fabric first' occur frequently in documents which accompany planning applications by the larger national constructi...

8 months ago
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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

Apologies, that link to the Meter Operators Code of Conduct is failing. I've logged into the REC to find out why, and the Change Log reports that th...

8 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

The Meter and the Service Fuse (aka 'Cutout') are screwed to a backboard which is the property of your DNO. This diagram is taken from the Meter Ope...

8 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

Please keep us updated on progress. There are several stages in the process before a technician even arrives on site. Each installer can typically...

8 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

There's a comment on Tomato Energy at the end of this post. If it's too cryptic for you (!) then ask the poster to elaborate over on that topic.

8 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

Good. Two cables.So that suggests a power-supply cable, and a separate control cable. What does @burtis have?

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

Ofgem and DESNZ are both aware that there is a dearth of knowledge holding up the implementation of future energy strategy.There's no point having a M...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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