Your new supplier will put you on a special ‘deemed’ contract. This means a contract you haven’t chosen.
Deemed contracts can be more expensive so your bills could go up. But Ofgem will try to get the best possible deal for you if you’re in this situation.
Deemed contracts can cost more because the supplier takes on more risk. For example, they might have to buy extra wholesale energy at short notice for new customers. So they charge more to make up for it.
Sit tight and wait to be contacted to protect any credit balance you may have. When contacted, ask to be put on the cheapest tariff or shop around and switch if you want to. You won’t be charged exit fees.
What costs were you getting on Agile overnight between 3-5am? The Western Power app had gas at 17% of generation (and biomass at 6.7% for full greenwashing) which looks like them just ticking over to be thermally ready when demand kicks in.
Presumably run by the Tesla side rather than the Hypervolt? Unless they include the ability to IFTTT hack from it then I suspect I will need to wait for that until when (or if) myenergi plays nicely with it.
Yes, they are using the Tesla API so the type of charger you have is moot.
They only have a couple of compatible chargers for non-Tesla vehicles at the moment. One is Wallbox, the other I can’t remember and I think Ohme are pushing to get on the list soon.
Have occasionally looked at the costs of heat pumps over the last year or two.
In-laws have an air one, that was installed when the oil fired boiler had issues.
Bit speedy to start with, but is it worth it so you think?
Also bear in mind they work best when delivering relatively low power at relatively low temperature. If your house has a large thermal mass (i.e. insulation on the outside) and you’re there most of the time, so you can take advantage of running the system continuously, then they can be good. If you’re out all day and in bed much of the night, so could save fuel by switching the heating off completely then, but want it to snap from cold to comfortably warm in 30 minutes (i.e. our lifestyle for nigh on 30 years) then a heat pump may struggle with that.
If we manage to complete the purchase of our new house, which is looking more likely, we need to consider what to do about the heating. It currently has an oil fired boiler. The farm cottage nearby has a ground source pump.
Our preliminary view is that we will try and manage with the oil boiler for a few years and wait for the technology to evolve a bit further before going ground source pump. The noise of it running worries me a bit. I don’t want a constant hum in a nice quiet country garden.
On general house stuff, @J_B have you come across Dampair Ltd based around your way on the odd occasions that some work is undertaken? Having failed to get a couple of companies to respond with anything on MVHR so far they are the next ones on the list.
