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It would be good to see a video of the exact upfront costs versus savings by having a HP. In essence it’s all well and good saying there’s a saving, but I suspect dividing the huge upfront costs over months versus savings, will make this look different. Going greener is good, but it’ll take 30 years plus to completely change.

This is not new - it’s good but not a game changer at all.

surely solar thermal is a match for this in terms of efficiency. The heat pump compressor consumes more electricity than a circulating pump on a solar thermal unit.

Octopus need to push for zonal pricing. Simple as.

😂😂😂 i cant believe all the comments backing greg. This man is the problem he is allowed to profit massive amounts whilst we pay extortionate amounts to line his pockets no wonder he is smiling. Energy should be owned by us it ahould be a human right to have energy not let one individual make billions in profit.

How does it fair when filling a bath??

Just tell him to get it all in Cumbria too we always get forgotten about up here

Get a room you two😂

Wow what a great interview. 🔥🔥

Is there any reason we aren't putting big cylinders in the useless eaves space in the loft laid horizontally?

He talks shit on electric cars

What about the scenario where you work from home and only really use 1 room. Sure the overall efficiency of the boiler might drop if I’m running my radiators hotter. But if my other 3 rooms are basically not on at all for a large portion of the day surely I’d still save quite a lot?

Heat pumps expensive to run , do not work effectively temp under 5 , Cost more to run below zero

With a well ventilated loft couldn't a heat pump be installed there. It would benefit from the absence of cooling winds and possibly warmer air due to heat lost from the rooms below. Weight issues could surely be dealt with, of course a suitably sized access would be required.

"introducing money to the local economy by using a local indy installer by example"could not say it better myself Adam. Buyer beware of big corp especially those wandering into areas they have no expertise. Support small indy installers by not driving standards and prices to the floor. Octopus are an incredible energy retailer (I am a customer). Less impressed with other activities at the moment.

I wonder whether there's a way to replace the water in the heat store with a PCM with the right freeze/melt point... which would mean the hot water coming out should stay at exactly the right temperature for much longer - ruclips.net/video/Nqxjfp4Gi0k/видео.html

I have enjoyed following Heat Geek for many years, and I agree we need to decarbonise and that heat pumps are an excellent way to do this. However, it seems that Octopus is much more interested in short-term profit than the environment. I have been on Intelligent Octopus Go (and it's predecessor) for about 3 years. For just over a year Octopus has been unable to provide me with a proper energy bill. I am now told that I will be billed at standard rates rather than 7.5p agreed. This makes heat pumps, batteries, and evs financially unviable. People need to be extremely cautious about committing to this new technology if Octopus can renege on the agreed rates at a moments notice.

As an energy assessor the biggest stumbling block with any electric heating is the price differential between mains gas and electric unit price. As the gap closes then the transition will speed up. Most of the assessments I carry out for heat pumps is in villages where they are competing against Oil, LPG and other forms of electric heating. Keep driving down those prices Greg.

I’m new to Heat Geeks this week but I’ve learnt so much and this announcement is brilliant, Octopus really do believe in the bigger mission and the more quality installers there are in this space the better it will be for people 🎉

One big scam

Would love you to do a video comparing the performance of the various hot water tank technologies… your new heat store, a traditional tank heated by a heat pump, a tank with an external heat exchanger and a tank with a build in heat pump. Which would you recommend given no obstacles to installation?

I'm holding out until a compact all in one direct replacement to a combi boiler will be developed. As its inside the property there will be, no planning permission headache, no astheic issues, will become an option to millions of people, no convernant issues, simple and easy to install. I'm sure it will happen as there is a whole swathe of houses out there who can't have a heat pump in its current form. As the need for central heating grew, boilers shrunk from a monster in the corner of the kitchen with low efficiency to a box that can fit in a cupboard. If someone has a gas combi boiler there is little reason why they can't have a heat pump - no matter the property type.

Interesting after went down the road with octopus and PP turned down. Hopefully a heat geek would be able to do a non standard install

Greg, what a legend. Great vid! ❤

Im an octopus heat pump customer who's heat loss was deemed to heigh just this week. They couldn't factor in my external wall insulation when some rooms only 2 out of 3 walls have the extra insulation and classed all walls as uninsulated. I'm getting a refund and starting to look for a second option. Sounds like this would have been just the thing for me rather than the hard stop i received. Hopefully I'm sorted now with a new survey next week with a likely outcome of a 12kWh system.

Great video, but i have had enough of the carbon based climate change bollux... pollution is something to tackle but the lie of carbon climate change pisses me off. Youd think people working at this level would be smart enough to see the how the lies of carbon based climate change is just bollux. it disappoints me that people this intelligent stop short of looking beyond the climate narrative.

best thing i like about octopus is that they have published the api for their platform - even for their consumers to use.

Hi Greg, when is the Cosy 6 and it's big brothers finally going to be rolled out? It's 9 months later than originally envisaged so far. Keen to know as my Octopus install is on hold (received a quote etc. but with the Daiken HP) until they come out.

Possible exciting times, but i dont know if yous watched the debate last night on TV, climate change isnt getting sorted till 2045 at the very least, theyve all let it slip accidentally that they know nothing can be done, with todays older model brick houses. Unless octopus want to put up the 28 billion to help every home in the uk. You will win the battle at some.point, but i defo know now, il be fitting gas boilers, with low temp specs until im well retired lol.

8 out of 10 people are not satisfied with their boilers because the boilers are not installed and commissioned properly. I good boiler that can be rated and balanced properly is a good way forward too. Let’s fight for proper boiler installations and that is easy if GasSafe wants to implement measures to ensure boilers are installed properly. Scrap all the low budget boilers that cannot modulate to at least 4kW. Make it possible for installers to set running temperature so customers can’t change it. Just a few ideas…

Quick questions - Where is the source for the electricity generation coming from to run these heat pumps? Where is the materials coming from to build these batteries? What will happen to these batteries when the reach end of life cycle?

Greg Jackson CBE Commander of British Electric…

Neat solution. Any concerns with scale build up inside the coils?

If you believe CO2 should be demonised , you are an Olympic idiot Yes of course We have to stop polluting the planet We have to stop abusing the finite resources of the planet We have to use truly sustainable energy We have to make our home energy neutral However CO2 has nothing to do with it Keep up the good work you two but drop the CO2 myth

As a very happy Octopus customer and a very happy recent recipient of a Heat Geek certified heat pump installation, this is great to see. Keep disrupting guys, your efforts are greatly appreciated!

What a great collaboration, one heat pump at a time ❤

Would be good if octopus could give me a correct bill.

Just 2 guys, looking at the bigger picture and coming up with the right solutions. Bravo!

Maybe you could persuade octopus to send their installers to complete the heat geek training too 👌

You guys are smashing it ! Keep up the good work 👍

Hoping that the combi heat pump will become a reality for Octopus customers sooner rather than later!

I’ve not heard one heating engineer say anything positive about octopus. They under cut most of the industry and have created a race to the bottom.

Fantastic news

There are 28 million households in the UK with 23 million relying on gas boilers. The govt target of 600,000 heat pump installations a year is unreachable without many more guys trained to install them In truth it will need 1.4 million to be installed every year just to first install by which time they will start to need to be replaced. Any Heat Geek or installer is pretty much guaranteed work for the next 25 years when it might tail off to just swap out old Heat Pumps. But you can bet your life there will be innovation that keeps plumbers swapping pipework too so that a COP of 5-6 can be reached! Good news for Adam, and Greg, as always seems to be genuine about saving energy and folks money.

Would it mean that when getting a quote from octopus I can request a heat geek to install mine? As the feeling with octopus heat pump installations is a cookie cutter approach with limitations on the design, like designing to 50C for example. I feel heat geeks do a more thorough job

I think retrofittig to heat pumps is going to be a harder slog than EV's, as the maths just dont stack up for homeowners using electric (even at 100-400% efficiency) for heating in older houses.

Sir Greg Jackson

Fascinating love in going on there 😂 I’ve not heard Greg speak before even though I’ve been an Octopus customer for a few years now - my Feed-In-Tariff is with Ecotricity but would happily switch to Octopus if it wasn’t such a faff. One of the few companies I’d like to work for 👍

And the next step @gregoctopus could be utilising the new heat store cylinder from heat geek/newark for your installs. What do you reckon? Count me in if you are!

Really wish there was an ask the audiance option for things like this. Theres a comments i disagree with regarding cars and would love to have had the opportunity to ask questions and hear responses.