The Benefits of Efficient Gas Boilers

Gas boilers are huge energy-wasting culprits in homes, business premises and public sector buildings across the UK. All domestic appliances are rated according to their energy efficiency with A being the best and G the worst, you can use this handy database from British Gas to discover how efficient your own boiler is.  Substantial savings in £'s and CO2 can be acheived by replacing inefficient boilers with A rated ones. This table shows the efficiency ratings of the kind of boilers we have replaced with Viessman units (which are as high as 95% efficient!), and the subsequent savings per installation.

 

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Since December 2010 we have replaced 21 inefficient gas boilers with A rated Viessmann 100 or 200 models as required, generally the boiler installations have been 'A' rated in place of 'G' rated boilers. Some of the old boilers actually had efficiency percentages as low as 40%, meaning that for every £1 spent on heating bills 60p was pure waste. Using the money and carbon savings shown above this equates to total savings of approximately £4,500 and 22 tonnes of C02 per year. These are exactly the kind of benefits that Norman Environmental wish to impart on our clients and the environment, translating as a yearly return on investment of nearly 12%.

The majority of this work has been completed for the Health Through Warmth scheme in the Vale of Glamorgan. The scheme is designed to provide vulnerable people with improved or brand new heating systems, as well as building insulation and other efficiency measures to keep their costs as low as possible.

Now help is available for the vulnerable in all areas of the country as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne, has announced that the Warm Front scheme has been restarted with a fund of £110m.  It had been closed down in December 2010 but the new fund should help installers across England bring around 44,000 people out of fuel poverty.

Of course you don't have to be vulnerable or in fuel poverty to suffer from excessive energy bills as they can eat a large chunk out of your home budget, or even your profit and loss sheet. Norman Environmental can help you cut the bills in your home or workplace with our cost effective solutions. Visit our website for more information or email us for a free survey.