A More Energy Efficicient Home
A More Energy Efficicient Home
Energy Efficient Home
Most of the energy we use in our homes goes towards heating water.
Inside our homes we burn expensive gas and electricity whilst outside our homes the free energy goes to waste.
It is a common misconception that Solar Energy will only work when the sun shines and therefore solar power is unsuitable for the UK climate. (Solar Myths)
This is no longer true.
The new generation of Solar Thermal Collectors require a lot less UV exposure than you might think. They are in fact efficient all year round. Still absorbing solar diffused radiation on cold cloudy days and assisting your conventional heating system in winter. But beware of less efficient panels which are only productive in direct sunlight.
On average a typical Solar Hot Water Heating System can provide up to 60% of your hot water needs every year.
This is often all the hot water needed in the summer and 20% in the winter, so 50%-60% year round.
That’s more than half of your hot water FOR FREE, FOR LIFE!
Find out How it works
Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)
As well as adding value to your home, installing a Solar Water Heating System will increase the energy performance of your home.
From 6 April 2009 most sellers of a domestic property are required to make available a Home Information Pack. This Pack must contain key information about the property for use by any potential purchasers.
The Energy Performance Certificate will form the backbone of the new Home Information Pack regulations.
According to the official Government website:
www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/
“A key component of the HIP is the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). The EPC will rate the home’s energy efficiency, using graphs like those on fridges and washing machines. It includes recommendations on how to cut fuel bills and reduce carbon emissions, encouraging people to make improvements to the energy efficiency of their homes”
The Energy Performance Certificates will be prepared and provided by either a qualified DEA (Domestic Energy Assessor) or a Home Inspector and will rate a property on a scale of A-G according to the impact it has on the environment. Better-rated homes should have less impact through carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
CO2 contributes to climate change and round 27 percent of the UK’s CO2 emissions come from domestic homes.
The average property in the UK is in bands D-E for both ratings and the most efficient homes should have the lowest fuel bills are in band A.
Therefore any homes which are using renewable energy sources and reducing their own CO2 emissions will automatically score high.
Read Heating Water Using Solar Energy for more information.
To book a free survey to assess
the suitability of your home for ‘Solar’
Please email your name, postcode & telephone contact to:
or call Steve on 07785 584455
HeatingBySolar.co.uk
