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Had my Gas Meter disconnected today by @OctopusEnergy (as requested). Heat Pump gets commissioned Thursday by the team at Falcon Heating. V exciting!
The Addicts Curve is basically describing me. Spot on @OctopusEnergy and @agile_phil
Anyone else seeing ‘Preparing your Juice’ but nothing else happening on @OctopusEnergy Intelligent Go tonight?
@_heatgeek can I do a design consultation with you guys (pay for it obviously) and then either (a) proceed because it won’t cost me anything after the grant (b) wait until I need to replace the boiler if I don’t need to replace my boiler now?
Automations setup for #FreeElectricity hour (and two hours tomorrow) with @OctopusEnergy . Home Assistant will switch on the car, charge the house battery and switch in the immersion. Even exported some of the battery a few hours before to make space :)
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Miles has now crossed 220k
Never broken down
Original brakes, paint, glass.
No squeaks, no rattles, drives perfectly.
6 sets of tyres. 2 sets wiper blades, 2 cabin filters, 1x front pair and 1x rear suspension bushes is the maintenance so far
Boot strut O ring replaced.
Can still cover 300 miles real world with its 88% remaining battery capacity.
Every 10k miles costs £178 in electricity with home charging.
18,855 miles to go and he’s driven to the moon.
#milestothemoon
#rsev
MINISTRY OF SOUND CLASSICAL with PAUL OAKENFOLD, DAVID MORALES, JUDGE JULES & FISH56OCTAGON. Englefield Estate, near Reading on Fri 18th July 2025!: arep.co/UbFjF2
If you need some content to share with customers about 'todays' Cyber Security threat, it might be worth taking a look at the MSP Threat Report below.
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#cybersecurity #MSPThreatReport #MSP #ConnectWise #AI #Cybersecurity #MSPCommunity #MSPPlatform
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Thanks to @Telegraph for publishing my letter last week - correcting the record for Matthew Lynn after his column yesterday said “sales of EVs have stalled”
Once more for those at the back: sales have grown, not stalled.
Here’s the evidence 🧵
telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025…
This is crazy. The energy system needs reform so this sort of thing doesn’t happen. While we are at it, let’s remove the connect between energy production bids and gas
We need market reform to stop relentless price cap rises.
It cost billpayers £100m to turn off wind farms in the last week.
No wonder generators don't want locational pricing.
This isn't Octopus vs incumbents, it's consumers vs producers.
wastedwind.energy/2025-02-23
Looks like @HalifaxBank give you cash back on a heat pump if you have a mortgage with them. Quite tempted to move from @NatWest_Help who don’t have anything like this! Worth looking into for anyone looking to make their house greener
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Headline... "Going green cost more than they bargained for"
Facts:
1. It was a schedule 30mins wrong (poss hardware issue)
2. THE TOTAL COST DIFFERENCE WAS £1.47 and refunded immediately
3. In 3 months, total cost £100 vs £300 on std tariff
4. IT'S 6x CHEAPER THAN PETROL
Microsoft, starting this month, are requiring all admin accounts to have MFA when access an admin portal. I am most partners have this in place, but here is one way you can check, bit.ly/3AbMMeG
Another ‘free electric’ hour tomorrow from @OctopusEnergy. It’s gonna be windy so we don’t want @neso_energy asking paying people to switch off the wind turbines!
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Thread of the most epic moments from SpaceX Starship’s launches 🧵
1. Starship’s 33 Raptor engines in full power
Sounds as if their may be less DFS (Demand Flexibility Service) opportunities this year :(
To help the energy industry plan ahead, we’ve published our Winter Outlook report for 2024/25.
Margins are expected to be adequate this winter, and the highest forecast since 2019/20, largely from new interconnection, battery storage capacity and increased generation connected to the distribution networks.
Read the full report: lnkd.in/ez-9yg-H
Oh nice. My @ShellyUK_com energy monitors now integrate with my @getlametric sitting in the kitchen. I was using @home_assistant as a middle man but native is better! apps.lametric.com/apps/energ…
Keep Calm and Carry On – Enabling Business Continuity with new Cross-User Restorations for SkyKick Cloud Backup bit.ly/3N8Sild > Now you can restore all of a users data when they leave into another users mailbox, OneDrive etc