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"Gas Armageddon": Energy/electricity prices in EU/UK (and how to deal with them)

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JohanH:

--- Quote from: tom66 on August 29, 2022, 10:05:46 am ---Ridiculous thing is if you had an A2A fitted as part of the "renewable heat incentive" the air conditioning mode had to be disabled.  Even if you personally spend many thousands of pounds on it, they do not allow a function that exists in the unit to be used.

Fortunately on most indoor units, it's just a dip-switch to turn it on again.

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That's crazy!

Marco:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on August 29, 2022, 09:26:09 am ---Also if you mention heat pump, no Dutch person will think about air conditioning. If I go to the website of any HVAC company, it will be a different category. I guess it's the lack of awareness which is the biggest issue. Also no subsidy for air conditioning, because... Well because it would make sense, and that's not what governments do.

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There's a shortage of installers and they seem more interested in doing the simplest possible installs than innovating. FCUs are boutique here, shops trying to sell them for over twice the cost in Italy.

If the installers tapped a low cost source of FCUs and offered them for installs it would kill two birds with one stone, the limited power output of older radiators by letting the FCU jump in and cooling. With heat waves fresh in memory it wouldn't be a hard sell.

madires:

--- Quote from: JohanH on August 29, 2022, 10:08:37 am ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on August 29, 2022, 10:05:46 am ---Ridiculous thing is if you had an A2A fitted as part of the "renewable heat incentive" the air conditioning mode had to be disabled.  Even if you personally spend many thousands of pounds on it, they do not allow a function that exists in the unit to be used.

Fortunately on most indoor units, it's just a dip-switch to turn it on again.

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That's crazy!

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Yep! And such nonsense regulations are also the reason why in some countries reasonable things sometimes aren't done. For example, if my family would install a PV system we would be forced to found a company and become an electricity supplier because we have a tenant. Without the tenant we could install 10kWp and would have only minimal paperwork.

Black Phoenix:

--- Quote from: madires on August 29, 2022, 10:42:05 am ---Yep! And such nonsense regulations are also the reason why in some countries reasonable things sometimes aren't done. For example, if my family would install a PV system we would be forced to found a company and become an electricity supplier because we have a tenant. Without the tenant we could install 10kWp and would have only minimal paperwork.

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 :palm: :palm: :palm:

themadhippy:

--- Quote ---. You guys seems to be perfectly capable to shooting yourself in the foot for no reason every time.
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Rubbish we have a good reason,we like to maximize the profit  for a  few.Gas storage is a fine example.Why pay for repairs when we can pass the savings  onto the shareholders.

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