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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...

9 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...

10 months ago
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Insulation
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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...

10 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...

10 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...

10 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.

10 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?

10 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...

10 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

I wonder if the Installers have appreciated the difference between a pump which has PWM inbuilt within the pump itself, and one where the Heat-Pump co...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Watch Where Your Installer Fits Motorised Valves

For reference, here's the classic motorised valve wiring diagram: If the valve body itself is still operating, then you just need to exchange the ...

10 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

It would be nice if there being lower existing demand on the Distribution Grid were being considered.But the available evidence from NESO is that thei...

10 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

... and a lack of Meatballs earlier in this discussion. Your wider perspective on events would be welcomed elsewhere across other topics on this For...

10 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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