Heat pumps are very clever appliances, being used to produce heated air and also cooling air in a home or any building. There are inside and outside versions and air to air or air to water types. So, is the heat pump really that good but is it a green appliance?
A Barking Plumber knows how a heat pump operates. They are powered by electricity so the power taken to run them is supplied from coal, oil and gas fired generating plants. So not only are they using fossil fuel but they are burning it in a not very efficient way. By the time it reaches you it has dropped in efficiency by 20% This makes the carbon footprint 17 which in ecological terms is massive. Because it is super efficient all a heat pump can do is try and drop the electricity carbon footprint to something that is comparable to natural gas. Barking Plumbers can install and maintain all types of heat pumps. It is quite possible that you could aquire the electricity you use from a green retailer or even make your own using photovoltaic solar panels (PV) these heat pumps suddenly become a different option. These solar panels cannot be used in a direct way as they tend to work better in summertime when the pump isn’t running, plus they are not able to generate the massive starting current that is required to start the pump, as this current is up to eight times the normal running current. Using the solar panel option you will be able to cover the expense of running the heat pump by actually selling back your voltaic electricity to the national grid, and you don’t need a massive amount of panels to do this.