Grants for Efficient Storage Heaters

BUFF

Chrysalis said:

I think when it comes to heat retention, the biggest issue in low end housing is probably old rotten single glazed windows.  The draft in my property is insane, yet every scheme I have looked at out of curiosity doesnt offer new double glazed windows, instead only much less efficient things.  Is this down to them deliberately trying to avoid the expensive stuff?

draughtproofing can be cheap & should have a fairly short payback period. Double glazing rarely pays for itself in pure economic terms (it will improve comfort levels though) & if it does it's usually in the tens of years.
The potential problem with effective draughtproofing in older properties can be condensation due to less ventilation ...

Swipe

Gerry1 said:

Swipe said:

I keep getting phone calls from people telling me I can get grants for storage heaters but every time I look it up I only see the ECO scheme that you have to be on benefits to qualify and see nothing mentioned about storage heaters. I'm guessing they are scam callers.

Register your numbers with the Telephone Preference Service and after 28 days you'll be certain that they're scams !

Already registered Gerry

Cardew

rtho782

 3kW of electricity going in, is going to be 3kW of heat coming out minus a tiny amount of say, light because the element is glowing. .

'3kW of electricity going in, is going to be 3kW of heat coming out,' - period!

Doesn't matter if a light is glowing or a fan turning etc!  According to Albert Einstein!

Mstty

Cardew said:

rtho782

 3kW of electricity going in, is going to be 3kW of heat coming out minus a tiny amount of say, light because the element is glowing. .

'3kW of electricity going in, is going to be 3kW of heat coming out,' - period!

Doesn't matter if a light is glowing or a fan turning etc!  According to Albert Einstein!

1kwH energy goes in the ASHP and more kWh interns of heat comes out?

Reed_Richards

Mstty said:

Cardew said:

rtho782

 3kW of electricity going in, is going to be 3kW of heat coming out minus a tiny amount of say, light because the element is glowing. .

'3kW of electricity going in, is going to be 3kW of heat coming out,' - period!

Doesn't matter if a light is glowing or a fan turning etc!  According to Albert Einstein!

1kwH energy goes in the ASHP and more kWh interns of heat comes out?

"interns" = "in terms" with auto-correct gone wrong???

A heat pump is a very specific device for moving heat from one place to another.  Heat pumping is not achieved accidentally by other electrical devices.

Electrical energy can be converted into other forms of energy; heat (as in a storage heater), light (as in a bulb), motion (as in an electric car), chemical (as in a battery), probably others I cannot think of right now.  But light gets absorbed and ultimately gives rise to heat, motion causes friction which creates heat or moves the air around but air movement ultimately heats the air.  An electric car in motion has kinetic energy but by the time it has returned home and stopped and all the air it disturbed has settled down then all the electrical energy used by the car will have been converted to heat.          

Mstty

Great spell check police🤣🤣🤣 

Cardew

Mstty said:

Cardew said:

rtho782

 3kW of electricity going in, is going to be 3kW of heat coming out minus a tiny amount of say, light because the element is glowing. .

'3kW of electricity going in, is going to be 3kW of heat coming out,' - period!

Doesn't matter if a light is glowing or a fan turning etc!  According to Albert Einstein!

1kwH energy goes in the ASHP and more kWh interns of heat comes out?

As said above, a heat pump is simply a device to transfer the heat contained in the air/ground/water from outside the house, into the house.

The principle is no different to, say, using a solar panel to transfer the heat of the sun into hot water(thermal solar) or electricity.

Air conditioning does exactly the opposite. It uses electricity to remove heat from inside the house.