Energy Consultant

Heavy water

Hi,
Can anyone recommend an independent energy consultant please?. I was in contact with one that was recommended to me but they are never available. Thank you in anticipation.

rolion

Never heard about this job description tbh ...
What is it that you're looking to find ?
Asking end users may help you...

ted1

Heavy water wrote: »

Hi,
Can anyone recommend an independent energy consultant please?. I was in contact with one that was recommended to me but they are never available. Thank you in anticipation.

What do you need ? I may be able to help you.

Heavy water

Thank you for your replies. I have thermodynamic panels on the south end of my house. They are about 20 feet from a compressor which is in turn about 10 feet from our 300litre hot cylinder. We have a kW meter connected to the compressor. It is costing us 500euro in electrical charges to run the system. It is only used to heat the water not the radiators. We have a new gas boiler and radiator system. The radiators and thermo panels were all installed in 2015 during a major renovation of our house. The thermo panels are located on a smallish single storey south facing roof at an extension at the side of the house. To install solar panels we would need to remove the old thermo system and install solar panels on the roof of our 2 story house as the roof on the single storey extension is too small. The solar panels would be at quite a distance from our hot cylinder which is at the front (north end) of the single storey extension at the side of the house. It would involve a fair amount of new 'tubing' and some minor building works. So I was looking for someone who could advise me whether to just use our gas to heat the water or whether it would be worthwhile installing the solar panels on the higher roof of the original house given the amount of disruption and cost this would require. I was looking for an independent energy consultant with some engineering/building knowledge who could assess our situation. Thank you.

MicktheMan

Heavy water wrote: »

Thank you for your replies. I have thermodynamic panels on the south end of my house. They are about 20 feet from a compressor which is in turn about 10 feet from our 300litre hot cylinder. We have a kW meter connected to the compressor. It is costing us 500euro in electrical charges to run the system. It is only used to heat the water not the radiators. We have a new gas boiler and radiator system. The radiators and thermo panels were all installed in 2015 during a major renovation of our house. The thermo panels are located on a smallish single storey south facing roof at an extension at the side of the house. To install solar panels we would need to remove the old thermo system and install solar panels on the roof of our 2 story house as the roof on the single storey extension is too small. The solar panels would be at quite a distance from our hot cylinder which is at the front (north end) of the single storey extension at the side of the house. It would involve a fair amount of new 'tubing' and some minor building works. So I was looking for someone who could advise me whether to just use our gas to heat the water or whether it would be worthwhile installing the solar panels on the higher roof of the original house given the amount of disruption and cost this would require. I was looking for an independent energy consultant with some engineering/building knowledge who could assess our situation. Thank you.

Forget the solar and thermo panel and use your new gas system for your hot water generation.

Calahonda52

MicktheMan wrote: »

Forget the solar and thermo panel and use your new gas system for your hot water generation.

+a
as above, pull the plug on the TP's etc and cut your elec losses and use the gas, forget about any more spend on SP's

air

Is that €500/bi monthly bill?
Thermodynamic panels are very questionable, some would say a scam.
Condenser on here has explained previously why they can never really work long term installed as they are. Essentially the range of temperatures and pressures the panels run at is too great for the compressor to handle.

Condenser

air wrote: »

Is that €500/bi monthly bill?
Thermodynamic panels are very questionable, some would say a scam.
Condenser on here has explained previously why they can never really work long term installed as they are. Essentially the range of temperatures and pressures the panels run at is too great for the compressor to handle.

Pretty much. They're the equivalent of taking an air to water unit and disconnecting the fan, then maybe paint it black so you can claim some sort of heat attracting qualities.

Metric Tensor

I agree with what everyone else here has said - the cheapest way for you to heat your water in terms of life cycle costs (for 20 years anyway) is to use your gas boiler - which I presume is fairly new.