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Six steps to claiming £400 for a new boiler
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 6th January 2010 at 12:10 pm
Households with inefficient, old boilers (G-rated) can get £400 off the price of a new A-rated boiler thanks to the new boiler scrappage scheme launched yesterday by Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband. You can also put the money towards a renewable heating system such as a biomass boiler or heat pump. …
Posted in: Energy efficiency
500 households to try Pay As You Save schemes
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 1st February 2010 at 8:53 am
Talk on how to finance making your house more energy efficient has turned to action - that's the good news. The bad news is that it's a small scheme that will only reach about 500 households in five areas of England between December 2009 and April 2011. Households in Birmingham, Sunderland, Londo…
Posted in: General, Energy efficiency
Long awaited Baxi Ecogen Micro-CHP unit launched
Posted by Gilly Jones on 6th May 2010 at 2:58 pm
The Baxi Ecogen Micro-CHP home boiler is finally available. The first wall-hung combined heat and power (CHP) unit is currently only available through British Gas' network of installers. It's only suitable for houses on the mains gas network. Baxi claims that the Ecogen is …
Posted in: Combined heat & power
Is domestic CHP dead and buried?
Posted by Simon Fixter on 21st April 2011 at 1:56 pm
The going price of a Stirling based domestic micro-CHP (combined heat and power) unit of between £3000 - £8600¹ takes some swallowing, when you compare it to prices for the most efficient A-rated (Sedbuk) central heating boilers of around £600-£1,000, (some with 5-year service-fr…
Posted in: Combined heat & power
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