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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…
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All power to you! Plugging homeowners into low-cost energy
Transcript of Matt Hilton’s speech at Solar and Storage Live 2024 at the NEC in Birmingham. Speech given on 26th September 2024 at 12.50hrs on the Everything Installer (Residential Scale) stage. “All power to you! Plugging homeowners into low-cost energy” This speech is really a call-to-arms for the industry, a statement of intent for Brimstone…
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Free electricity for anyone with a roof!
Newsflash: Free electricity for anyone with a roof! That’s right folks. You too can get free electricity. Simply install a solar array on your roof, and the marginal cost of all the electricity that is generated for the next 30+ years by the solar panels on your roof is zero. Free electricity for anyone with…
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Powered by the Sun
Your life, powered by the Sun. What a wonderful feeling. A marvel of the modern age. Simply put some panels on your roof, and you can power your life for the next 30+ years. If you take a moment to pause and think about it – what a mind-blowing thing this is. Our forefathers, just…
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Electric Heating comes full circle
Today we conducted an Energy Performance Certificate at a property in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. The property was a modest 2 bedroomed semi-detached, completely unimproved from the date of its construction, and not particularly well maintained either. It is set to undergo a full refurbishment, and this will include a new heating system. However, it struck…
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Is sustainable energy for me?
Early adopters like to try new things. A particular concept or idea excites them, and they are happy to be one of the first to have a new technology. For most of the rest of us, we are probably perfectly happy with the status quo. But gnawing at the back of our minds are questions…