Author: Brimstone Energy
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Ofgem’s price cap changes benefit solar and battery storage households
Ofgem has proposed changed to the structure of electricity bills, whereby customers will be offered a tariff that has zero or low standing charge, which will be controlled by the price cap. Ofgem’s price cap changes benefit solar and battery storage customers. Many customers with solar simply use the electricity generated by their solar panels,…
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Doing the right thing.
During house calls today, we encountered a common theme. Prospective clients wanted to do the right thing. They wanted to move away from fossil fuels. Both had looked at Heat Pumps to replace their gas boilers. Both had decided that Heat Pumps were unsuitable for their homes, for different reasons. Both prospective clients were looking…
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Is thinking about climate change making you feel overwhelmed?
According to MINTEL, 54% of UK adults say that thinking about climate change is making them feel overwhelmed. There will be a lot of aspects to this. Perhaps it is simply the size of the task. Or that one person amongst 8.2 billion on Planet Earth feels so insignificant. Or that because it has been…
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Battery storage and Heat Pumps – the perfect partners
Brimstone Energy recently installed a GivEnergy All in One battery storage system into a property that already had both solar panels and a heat pump. Whilst the solar panels are useful for generating lots of electricity during the period April to September, their production is much reduced during a British winter. So their ability to…
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Shock: Electricity Prices will remain high
Political decisions and Geopolitics do impact our daily lives. And there is no clearer example of this than the high energy prices that we in the UK are forced to cope with. And as this news article in the BBC today points out, Electricity Prices will remain high for the foreseeable future: High gas and…
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How to retrofit 250,000 homes in Cambridgeshire
At the recent Huntingdonshire District Council Annual Climate Conference 2024, this statistic jumped out. There are over a quarter of a million homes in Cambridgeshire that need to be retrofitted to meet modern specifications. To put this another way, we need to retrofit about 11,000 homes per year for the next 25 years to meet…
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What does 100% efficient heating mean?
Recently we have seen some worrying trends on social media, whereby unscrupulous traders have installed electric heating in homes, where the type of product installed has been completely unsuitable. Apart from the poor behaviour of the traders involved, one factor here is a lack of customer understanding regarding the options available. One of the confusions…
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Economy 7 misconceptions
Economy 7 has been around for a long time. It is the “original” time of use electricity tariff. Called “Economy 7” because the customer received 7 hours of cheaper electricity. This 7 hour period is then used to consume a lot of electricity, almost exclusively to heat the home. But there are lots of misunderstandings…
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Economy 7 tariff? Battery storage is for you.
Very many homes are not on the national gas grid. Millions of homes. Many of these homes are powered and heated solely by electricity. Does this sound like you? Is your home an Economy 7 tariff home? Then Battery Storage is for you. As with many things, we only know, what we know. We are…
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The benefits of Battery Storage
All homes should have battery storage. This is our belief here at Brimstone Energy. We consider the benefits to this technology to be so profound, we think that batteries will be rolled out nationwide. In the future, having a battery storage device in your home will be as common as having a kettle. So, what…