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Mitsubishi Electric
Low Carbon Heating & Ecodan Air Source Heat Pumps
Mitsubishi Electric has introduced the future of
viable, mass market, low carbon residential heating with the
award-winning, Ecodan® air source heat pump systems.
Ecodan, which is accredited under the
Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) is now manufactured in
Scotland. It offers UK homes a viable, low carbon alternative to gas
and oil heating that will also reduce household running costs.
Specifically designed for the UK, Ecodan is as
‘plug and play’ as possible, quiet, inverter controlled to regulate
energy consumption and can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 50% when
compared to gas.
Equally important in these days of fuel poverty,
Ecodan can reduce a home’s fuel bills by up to 30% over modern gas
boilers – savings are even greater over oil, older gas, LPG and
direct electric.
As a nation, we need to find ways to
significantly reduce the energy used in household heating. With 26%
of the UK’s CO2 emissions coming from domestic energy use, and 73%
of household emissions from space heating and hot water, we need a
radical overhaul of the way we heat our homes if the Government is
to meet its emission targets.
The average 3-bedroomed home produces around 5.6
tonnes of CO2 per year and if we can find ways to significantly
reduce this amount then we could really make a difference – house by
house.
Ecodan can help new homes achieve Level’s 3 and 4
of the Code for Sustainable Homes and is also ideal for retro-fit
projects where the property has been thermally upgraded. This makes
Ecodan suitable for the majority of UK properties.
Gas still dominates the residential heating
sector with around 1.6 million new boilers bought each year. In
addition to the environmental consequences of using carbon-based
technology that has reached the limits of efficiency, consumers also
face rapidly rising gas prices and the country has recently become a
net importer of gas for the first time, leaving the UK hostage to
volatile international market conditions.
If the UK’s households are to play their part in
helping the country achieve Government targets for energy reduction,
then there needs to be financial incentives and any gas alternatives
need to be easy to adopt.
Other alternatives to gas remain unproven, depend
on how brightly the sun shines or how hard the wind blows, are far
too expensive, require complex equipment and installation, or in the
case of biomass boilers, leave the homeowner with waste to dispose
of.
This is where the Ecodan can provide an answer,
by significantly reducing CO2 emissions compared to condensing gas
boilers or other forms of heating.
Ecodan runs on a single-phase electrical circuit
and delivers these levels of efficiencies over gas even when the
inefficiencies of the national grid are taken into account. As
greener sources of electricity become available, the efficiency (and
cost) gap between Ecodan and other forms of heating will grow.
Unlike many other air source heat pump systems,
Ecodan is straightforward to install and can be fitted by a suitable
qualified plumber. It is installed on the outside of a property,
freeing up internal space and requires just flow and return water
pipes and single-phase electric. Being inverter-driven, it also
regulates energy consumption to exactly match heating demand.
Technical information associated with:
Mitsibishi Ecodan renewable energy heating & hot water
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