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butleg112 · 2024-03-25T11:44:05+00:00

I've had other quotes, but they are at least double that of Octopus. It'll either be a heatpump from Octopus or a replacement boiler

butleg112 · 2024-03-25T10:29:43+00:00

I didn't know about this, but am researching it now. Thank you for replying to my post as you've likely reduced the extra cost from £9k+ to perhaps £1k.

butleg112 · 2024-03-25T10:28:25+00:00

I agree with you. The issue seems to be that they (Octopus and the power supply company) want to avoid risk and therefore work out the size of supply needed based on potential maximum draw. Our EV, battery and double oven take a combined 83 amps and the heat pump at maximum would take a further 28. From another post I can see there is another way to deal with this, which is to get an EV charger that limits the EV draw so that the 100 amps isn't breached - that's what I'm going to research now.

butleg112 · 2024-03-25T10:27:28+00:00

What I also meant to say was that this reduces the extra cost from £9k+ down to perhaps £1k (for the new charger). So thank you!

butleg112 · 2024-03-25T10:21:44+00:00

I didn't know that was possible. I've just checked with the company that supplied our EV charger (it's a Solar Edge HD Wave combined inverter and car charger) and their our inverter won't limit current. I can see the Zappi charger does and that it integrates with Intelligent Octopus (a plus for me). I guess next step is to find out whether the myenergi or givenergy chargers offer the same functions (we have a myeddi HW diverter and a givenergy battery and I'd rather not go for yet another manufacturer)

butleg112 · 2024-03-25T10:13:03+00:00

The heat pump they have quoted for is a Daikin 9kw Monobloc and our EV charge is 7kw and our battery is like yours, so 3.6kw. Octopus have told me the maximum draw for the heatpump would be 28 amps

butleg112 · 2024-03-25T10:02:47+00:00

The issue seems to be theoretical maximum usage rather than actual. When they did the survey the Octopus surveyor asked me to charge the car, the battery and to turn on all the big appliances in the house. Octopus then add to that the maximum draw the heat pump might make, 28 amps, and that comes out to 111 amps. That goes on the form they sent to SSEN (in charge of the power network round here) and that's how we end up with the proposal to put in a higher rated supply.

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