Octopus Energy Launches the Cosy 6 Heat Pump

MP1995

Fredw56 said:

Brydo50 said:

I would like to install an air source heat pump and contacted Octopus Energy to get a quote. Unfortunately as i live in Scotland (Glasgow) this is isn't possible as the agent i spoke to said “we don't do Scotland, only England and Wales” couldn't believe it.

They don’t do all of England either. We live in Lincolnshire and they don’t cover our area. I suppose they are only interested in the southeast. More people, more money.

Or there are more people willing to work for Octoous in the South East and what they pay. They are advertising for installers in the whole of the UK.

Maybe people in those other areas are lazy lol

Fredw56

MP1995 said:

Fredw56 said:

Brydo50 said:

I would like to install an air source heat pump and contacted Octopus Energy to get a quote. Unfortunately as i live in Scotland (Glasgow) this is isn't possible as the agent i spoke to said “we don't do Scotland, only England and Wales” couldn't believe it.

They don’t do all of England either. We live in Lincolnshire and they don’t cover our area. I suppose they are only interested in the southeast. More people, more money.

Or there are more people willing to work for Octoous in the South East and what they pay. They are advertising for installers in the whole of the UK.

Maybe people in those other areas are lazy lol

I concur with the lazy bit. You can add incompetent and untrustworthy.

DougMLancs

They’ve been installing around us in the NW for the last 6 months- maybe Lincs didn’t have as big a pool of installers to recruit from in the first place. The incompetent and untrustworthy bit- is that personal experience or just a wild generalisation @Fredw56?

rjmachin

MP1995 said:

Or there are more people willing to work for Octoous in the South East and what they pay. They are advertising for installers in the whole of the UK.

Maybe people in those other areas are lazy lol

Fredw56 said:

I concur with the lazy bit. You can add incompetent and untrustworthy.

They are installing in the West Midlands.   I had mine a couple of weeks ago (Staffordshire)

wrf12345

With England it is probably a case of sensing demand from enquiries and ramping up training/installation teams to cover it at a later date, if we are lucky, but if servicing costs are high or if hot water can't be disabled (otherwise has to be heated on a regular basis for hygiene) then it would not work for me as no point getting rid of gas to save on servicing (mostly free, clean the filter myself) or s/c. "New" Labour (possibly with LibDEms) may mean more eco friendly free treats on the table if they actually have any ministers who can intelligently throw govn money around rather than the current lot. Back to free solar with the revenue going to the govn and a massive roll-out of battery storage sited in people's gardens but run by the grid (money coming from savings in not doing new industrial sized power plants). Tech changes make many things possible.