SAP 10.2 Table 3 (PDF p.160) verbatim:
Primary loss is set to zero for the following:
Electric immersion heater
Combi boiler ...
CPSU ...
Boiler and thermal store within a single casing
Separate boiler and thermal store connected by no more than 1.5
m of insulated pipework
Direct-acting electric boiler
Heat pump (...) with hot water vessel integral to package
The Elmhurst WHC=903 lodging signals exactly the first row: "HW from
a separate electric immersion heater" — the cylinder is heated by an
immersion element inside the tank, no primary pipework between any
heat generator and the cylinder. The rule is universal: regardless
of what main heating exists for space heating, electric immersion
means no primary circuit means no primary loss.
Pre-slice `_primary_loss_applies` only consulted `water_heating_code`
in the Table 4a wet-boiler branch (codes 151-161 / 191-196). The Cat
4 HP branch returned True unconditionally when no PCDB record was
lodged; the Cat 1/2 boiler branch returned True unconditionally; the
PCDB Table 322 + Table 4b non-PCDB branches likewise. For the
electric 2 corpus variant (sap_main_heating_code=524 Cat 5 warm-air
ASHP, main_heating_category=4 per Elmhurst mapper, no PCDB record,
WHC=903 + cylinder), the Cat-4 branch falsely returned True and the
cascade added ~510 kWh/yr primary loss to a system with no primary
circuit at all.
Per-line walk discipline applied: cascade `water_heating_from_cert`
output dump showed `primary_loss_monthly_kwh_annual = 509.98` while
worksheet (59)m = 0 every month → spec lookup found Table 3 verbatim
"Electric immersion heater" zero-loss line.
Adds `_WHC_ELECTRIC_IMMERSION: Final[int] = 903` constant + a
top-of-function `if water_heating_code == _WHC_ELECTRIC_IMMERSION:
return False` guard that fires before any of the system-type-keyed
branches.
Closures electric 2:
HW kWh 2849.22 → 2339.24 (matches worksheet (62)/(64) = 2384.12
within the residual ~45 kWh storage-loss gap)
ΔSAP −0.4584 → +0.8118 (cascade swung past the worksheet by +1.27
— the pre-slice 'near-correct' value was offsetting cascade bugs
per [[feedback-software-no-special-handling]]; the +0.81 residual
exposes a separate upstream gap to chase in a follow-up slice)
Δcost +£10.56 → −£18.71
ΔCO2 +47.89 → −7.21 kg
ΔPE +443.13 → −161.68 kWh
No regressions on the other 24 cohort variants — only electric 2 has
the (Cat 4 HP, no PCDB, WHC=903) combination in the corpus.
Extended handover suite: 900 pass / 0 fail (was 899 — +1 from the
new AAA test). Pyright net-zero (43 → 43).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This branch's objective is the SAL ingestion handler
(applications/SAL/handler.py) and its dependency tree. Drop work
that crept in but is unreferenced by it:
- EPC feature: domain/epc, infrastructure/epc (gov_uk + historical
clients), tests/infrastructure/epc
- datatypes/epc edits (instantaneous_wwhrs Optional) reverted to main
- asset_list/app.py local data-file/column tweak reverted to main
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