Heat Pumps and Solar

[Munroast]

Milliband has just announce an eye watering expensive scheme to get heat pumps and solar into our homes to combat fuel poverty -

I have 20 panels on our roof and think they are excellent, but to power heat pumps they will be fairly useless, at the time of year we need to heat our houses, in Dec and Jan, you will need to buy electric at cost to run these heat pumps, and even though the heat pumps ae 300% efficient, electric atfull price is about 4x the cost of gas

in a full year my solar panels produce just over 8000 kwh , but n the 8 weeks that surround the shortest day, it only produced 280kwh

so to sum up - should be quite cheap to heat our homes in the summer.

 

[SPLINE]

Just another tax.

 

[motorbiking]

Milliband has just announce an eye watering expensive scheme to get heat pumps and solar into our homes to combat fuel poverty -

I have 20 panels on our roof and think they are excellent, but to power heat pumps they will be fairly useless, at the time of year we need to heat our houses, in Dec and Jan, you will need to buy electric at cost to run these heat pumps, and even though the heat pumps ae 300% efficient, electric atfull price is about 4x the cost of gas

in a full year my solar panels produce just over 8000 kwh , but n the 8 weeks that surround the shortest day, it only produced 280kwh

so to sum up - should be quite cheap to heat our homes in the summer.

Air sourced reversible aircon, working alongside your gas boiler is the way to go with electric pre-heaters for hot water in the summer.

Then on sunny cold days the aircon can top up the heating and the pre-heaters will reduce or even eliminate gas hot water in the summer.

I assume you have a large capacity battery storage system, or are you just happy to provide free energy to your supplier?

 

[Munroast]

Part of the deal with any grants is you have to get rid of the gas boiler. last year we done a lot of decorating downstairs, new carpts etc, I considered underfloor heating powered from air source - the prices are eye watering and no grant unless gas boiler taken out. I thought it would have been good having air source for 9 months then backed up by gas for the mid winter - but No, you have to go full air source, so heating would be poor and expensive in the winter


we have 10kwh of batteries, (7.5 in practice) , not sure if they are worth having, export prices are good. And charging from grid when prics are low is crap, huge wastage with 2 trips through the inverter

 

[motorbiking]

Hence why I said reversible aircon, which can be added for a fraction of the cost. A pair of 5 heads would cost under 3k. Better brands available, but this sort of thing.

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