We have a oil-fired combi boiler which has worked really well. However, we’ve just had solar panels installed and I want to use the excess power these are generating to heat water rather than export the excess power to the grid.
Is it possible to add a hot water cylinder with an immersion heater to a combi-boiler system?
Ideally things would work like this:
- immersion diverter would detect electricity export to the grid and divert this power to the emersion heater to heat the water instead
- when there is no export to the grid (eg when the sun is not strong) and the water temp in the cylinder falls the boiler would kick in and heat the water in the cylinder.
Thanks
Is it possible to add a hot water cylinder with an immersion heater to a combi-boiler system?
Ideally things would work like this:
- immersion diverter would detect electricity export to the grid and divert this power to the emersion heater to heat the water instead
- when there is no export to the grid (eg when the sun is not strong) and the water temp in the cylinder falls the boiler would kick in and heat the water in the cylinder.
Thanks