Renewable Heating

As members of the Green Installer Scheme Classic Heating are able to offer the best advice for renewable energy technologies.

Solar heating, air source heat pumps and ground source heat pumps offer an alternative to fossil fuels and can help reduce your homes CO2 emissions. The Worcester Bosch renewable energy products are cost effective, environmentally friendly and viable ways of saving money and securing your future energy needs.

Solar Heating Worcester Greenskies solar panels

A typical well sized solar system should provide around 50-70% of the domestic hot water requirements of a home, representing a very worthwhile saving on hot water heating costs. The remaining hot water requirement is provided by the boiler.

Solar panels harness the power in both direct and diffused sunlight and convert the energy to heat for the production of hot water for the home. The solar panels have been designed as a complement to existing heating systems which use a store of hot water in a cylinder. The existing cylinder is exchanged for a cylinder with two heat exchanger coils; one from the boiler in the property and a second from the solar panels.

The Worcester Greenskies solar panels are a perfect partner to the new range of condensing Greenstar regular and system boilers, with different models available in both oil and gas, which require a separate cylinder for the storage of hot water. When used together a Greenstar boiler and solar system provide a highly efficient system to give heating and hot water comfort

Ground source heat pumps

GSHP’s use the latent heat absorbed by the ground that is radiated by the sun daily no matter what the weather is doing above ground. Underground temperature remains constant, at around 12 degrees, and provides a reliable continual source of warm water which, harnessed with a glycol based GSHP system, gives a constant feed of hot water and heating into a property.

"Ground source heat pumps can generate four kilowatts of energy for every single kilowatt of electricity used"

GSHP’s are very efficient ways of heating your home and are in excess of 300% efficient. There are also more grants, feed-in tariffs and cash backs available for GSHP’s from various sources as it is a well established form of heating your home and a great long term investment.

Air to Air Heat pumps

Air Source heat pumps have been used in Scandinavian countries for over twenty years as they are an incredibly efficient way of using the outside temperature to give heating and cooling within a building. They are often likened to air conditioning units due to their similar looks, but are in fact far superior due to their increased effi ciency and ability to perform both heating and cooling functions.

The system comprises of an external compressor fixed to an outside wall which draws air into the unit that is then passed through a refrigerant system. The air is then compressed and super-heats the refrigerant fluid that turns into a gas which can be manipulated into giving whatever temperature is required. The internal unit then distributes the hot (or cold) air, depending on what the thermostat is telling it to achieve, throughout.

Cost effective, low maintenance and aesthetically pleasing, Air to Air heat pumps can heat or cool up to 120 square metres allowing for many applications; open plan areas for business, classrooms, places of worship, loft and basement conversions or house extensions – in fact any open areas which require heating or cooling. The units also act as air purifi ers and particulate fi lters using “Cluster Ion Technology”, they don’t dry out the air - as air conditioning units do - so are excellent for allergy sufferers and contact lens wearers alike.

Most installations are completed within a day or so and a 6Kw unit costs around 4 pence per hour to run (on maximum output). They are up to 500% effi cient which is why they have become an excellent option for those wanting to reduce the pressure on their existing boiler and household bills.

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