What Are Your Options for Renewable Heating?
There are many ways to look at this concept, but the best place to sart is with your own objectives:
- What do you need heating for?
- Do you know your heating demand?
- How do you think this may change in the future?
This information should come backed up with your existing bills or an estimate based on the appliances and occupancy of the location.
Understand Your Heating Bills
If you have a monthly breakdown, great, you can see peaks and troughs throughout the year.
If you have a complex operation, then look into the breaking down by cost centre or application.
This will help in two ways:
- You may be able to save money just by using less!
- If you are looking for an investment in renewable heating to suit your budget, we can identify a specific load to be serviced by it.
Consider These Four Things
Process
Building Infrastructure
Behaviour
Working Environment
Freesource Can Help you Work Out Your Objectives
We are often approached by clients with very broad objectives and often end up tailoring these to meet priorities and budgets. As part of our service we are happy to discuss your business in more depth as we find the Net results are much larger returns on your investment.
What To Do Next?
If you would like to know more about any of the technologies on the right hand side of this page, please call 0800 619 1262 or fill in the form on our Contact page.
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Solar Heating, Heat Pumps, Biomass or CHP?
These three categories are your main options for on-site renewable electricity. Each has their own requirements, some are climate or topographical related others are operation related.
Solar Heating
Hot Water Only
Solar panels can be used if you use Solar thermal technology - designed to extract heat from the sun and transfer it to water in a tank.
The most common applications are simple hotwater for washing or shower rooms - particularly where businesses have strong sustainable policies and encourage cycling to work.
Underfloor With a Thermal Store
Solar thermal technology can work extremely well in supplying heat for underfloor heating. Sized to suit your needs, this can provide a large % of your requirement provided you have space for the panels.
Heat Pumps for Business
Heat pump technology is growing rapidly in terms of brands and technology available and is seen as one of the most cost effective renewable energy heating solutions around.
Ground and Water Source Heat Pumps
One of the fastest growing types are ground or water ource heat pumps. These systems draw heat either from the ground or water, which has been heated passively by the sun.
We have an excellent detailed case study available of one of these applications which shows excellent efficiency and large cost savings and in some detail!
Heat Recovery
This can apply to small and large scale applications. Small scale woud include air or water source heat pumps collecting waste heat from warm areas of a building and then either heating water or other spaces within the building. Large scale applications can harness £££hundreds of thousands in cost savings by harnessing waste heat from industrial processes.
Biomass Energy
This is a huge topic area as there are countless sources of biomass sourced energy. Small scale can include burning wood to heat rooms and water, large scale can include CHP and commercial scale electricity generation. Either way, the main thing to look for is where your fuel comes from - is it bought in and if so is it locally sourced OR is it a waste and if so how much do you have on a regular basis
Combined Heat and Power CHP
Often seen as one of the holy grails of the energy world, CHP is still in early development stages. The most common applications are with large scale applications where there are constant predictable loads for electrical and heating. Micro CHP is in its early days of development.
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