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 the product of our life experiences. To those of us that have never lived in an Economy 7 home, the way in which these homes are heated can come as a bit of a surprise.

So how is an all-electric Economy 7 house heated? There will be two primary ways. The most common heating method will be the wall mounted storage heater. Now for a lot of us, we have bad experiences with storage heaters. We simply don’t understand them. They never seem to kick out a lot of heat like a “regular” radiator. They aren’t responsive – they work to their pre-programmed settings, and the dials on the top can be difficult to interpret to the uninitiated.

Method 2 is a slab-based storage heater. The concrete slab of your house, under your feet, is your storage heater. During construction, heating elements are laid in you slab & screed, and these heat up over night and discharge their heat during the course of the day. More of us are familiar with underfloor heating using wet pipework in the screed – this is basically the same, but with electric heating elements.

Both work using the same principle. Heat energy is being applied to a material which then stores that heat energy. The material then discharges that heat energy during the course of the day.

There are some obvious drawbacks with this. One being that it can be expensive, especially since electricity prices have risen so much. Another one is that to boost the heating during a cold snap in the evening can be crippling. During a cold snap, unless the home has been constructed to PassivHaus standards, it is highly likely that you’ll require additional heating input during the day. If you are elderly, and are at home for most of the day, static and not moving so much, then you’ll need the home to be heated to a higher temperature, and you’ll definitely require additional heating input during the day. To do this, you’ll be needing to buy electricity at peak rates.

Whatever your exact requirements, there is one common feature. You need a way to buy electricity at cheaper rates during the peak period in order to lower your bills.

There is only one way to achieve this: generate and store your own electricity.

At Brimstone Energy we work with people to lower their on going cost base. We strongly believe in the value of lowering on-going costs as a way to financial security. Check out our article on the Financial Independence Case for Solar here.

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