how to save electric

[NI Tree]

what about putting in central heating with a biomass boiler, save on the space heaters and on hot water

[Woodworks]

If your stuck with electric it might be worth having a heat pump either ground of air sourced. Presume you are all ready on all low energy lighting. Other heavy users are old chest freezers.

[s.varty]

fit a log burner/back boiler?

 

Love one, but ive heard bad things about the set up,have you got one and if so,any good?

[onyx landscaping/fencing]

Love one, but ive heard bad things about the set up,have you got one and if so,any good?

 

moved house about 10 months ago so only got a log burner at the min will be moving the log burner to the other end of the house and fitting a back boiler where the log burner is now. all ways had burners or boilers and wouldn't have anything els if you have logs about

[carpenter1]

got a stove

[Woodworks]

These are good for finding where you are using the most Power Meter

[hedgesparrow]

well wind turbines B^Q sold one once well it was next to useless be lucky if it power a light bulb. to power a house looking at min 5kva will need planning permission to install it as it will be 30mtrs tall to catch wind. and it needs to be a min of 6kph to run it will need a concrete base and need a trench to house cable from mast to house then a box which shows how much you are making from turbine. and how much you are taking so rest you can sell to the grid. and feed in tarrif has dropped so take longer to get your return. last time i looked looking at £20k for one there are some companys who will supply one in return for feed in and let you have your leccy free if it meets there demands eg how much feed in they can get back.

[carpenter1]

not looking to power the whole house, i got a 3.8kw pv solar,

 

so just considered a small wind turbine, (that does not require planning) just to make a little bit more energy as the prices are going through the roof

[Woodworks]

From my understanding small turbines will never pay for themselves unless in a very exposed site and very tall tower. To talk to owners of this sort of thing try this Forum but I think they will just say the same. Wind Turbines and associated systems

[openspaceman]

everything in the house, we have only got electric (no gas or oil) so for heating and everything in the house and workshop.

 

i am in a windy position, i could mount on top of workshop gable one each end. even if 500watts each would help electric bills

 

I don't think it is wise to mount on a building.

 

Also consider power is proportional to the windspeed cubed so theoutput is peaky.

 

Even on a good site you only reckon on an average of 30% of installed capacity and most sites in England have not achieved this. Perceived wisdom is that you don't get an economic return if average wind speed is less than 7 metres/sec.

 

None of which would stop me if I had space except I would use a pole.