Hello,
my wife and I are currently considering a used single-family house. It was built in 2004.
However, it has an electric storage block heater installed. Apparently, there is also a wood stove.
I have already searched online but couldn’t find any recent information about electric storage block heaters. Does anyone here have experience with them? I would prefer not to have to install a new heating system. Since the house was built in 2004, it’s still relatively new. So I can’t really imagine that outdated technology would have been installed there.
Does anyone have knowledge about electric storage heaters? They must be quite expensive to run, right?
my wife and I are currently considering a used single-family house. It was built in 2004.
However, it has an electric storage block heater installed. Apparently, there is also a wood stove.
I have already searched online but couldn’t find any recent information about electric storage block heaters. Does anyone here have experience with them? I would prefer not to have to install a new heating system. Since the house was built in 2004, it’s still relatively new. So I can’t really imagine that outdated technology would have been installed there.
Does anyone have knowledge about electric storage heaters? They must be quite expensive to run, right?
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Bauexperte24 Mar 2011 14:16Hello €uro.
You have been following this forum for quite some time, so you should know that I only write what I can stand by – it’s a pity that you still haven’t internalized that.
As early as 1992, I had a goal-oriented discussion in the executive board of RWE regarding the heat pump tariff. The result was that after our long conversation, the gentlemen took me aside and told me almost literally, “As long as we make money with gas, you will not get a discounted tariff, even if your system is admittedly very economical.” End quote. Since this argument – frankly – annoyed me quite a bit, I approached other utilities, usually smaller to medium-sized energy suppliers and municipal utilities, and with all of them I obtained the heat pump tariff for this radiant heating system; sometimes with, sometimes without load management periods. Since 1993, numerous single-family homes in NRW have been operated with radiant heating—billed according to the applicable heat pump tariff—and this economically, without any kind of maintenance or renewal of the system itself.
This alternative “green” argument no longer convinces me, because if we are honest, we would then only be allowed to work during daylight and warm ourselves up in the evening with whoever is next to us. Even renewable raw materials have a devastating impact on the ecosystem.
All in all, in the medium term, there will be no other option but to heat with electricity. The "Jehovah question" has long been how to implement this economically and ecologically sensibly. Until then, there is no universally valid answer on how to bridge the gap to this final goal. Rather, it will be a mixture of energy sources—depending on political direction and the budget of builders or renovators; with some luck, the disaster in Japan will accelerate this development.
Kind regards
€uro schrieb:
Are you sure that it is allowed to operate a radiant heating system with a heat pump tariff? Is that really permitted? What you are saying here is quite risky!
You have been following this forum for quite some time, so you should know that I only write what I can stand by – it’s a pity that you still haven’t internalized that.
As early as 1992, I had a goal-oriented discussion in the executive board of RWE regarding the heat pump tariff. The result was that after our long conversation, the gentlemen took me aside and told me almost literally, “As long as we make money with gas, you will not get a discounted tariff, even if your system is admittedly very economical.” End quote. Since this argument – frankly – annoyed me quite a bit, I approached other utilities, usually smaller to medium-sized energy suppliers and municipal utilities, and with all of them I obtained the heat pump tariff for this radiant heating system; sometimes with, sometimes without load management periods. Since 1993, numerous single-family homes in NRW have been operated with radiant heating—billed according to the applicable heat pump tariff—and this economically, without any kind of maintenance or renewal of the system itself.
€uro schrieb:
I hope we are not going to discuss the additional primary energy consumption!
This alternative “green” argument no longer convinces me, because if we are honest, we would then only be allowed to work during daylight and warm ourselves up in the evening with whoever is next to us. Even renewable raw materials have a devastating impact on the ecosystem.
All in all, in the medium term, there will be no other option but to heat with electricity. The "Jehovah question" has long been how to implement this economically and ecologically sensibly. Until then, there is no universally valid answer on how to bridge the gap to this final goal. Rather, it will be a mixture of energy sources—depending on political direction and the budget of builders or renovators; with some luck, the disaster in Japan will accelerate this development.
Kind regards
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