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16th Century Manor House gets brand new far infrared heating solution…

In summer 2018 we were contacted by a customer who needed a heating solution to a new apartment they’d purchased in a beautifully converted Manor House in the Home Counties. The opportunity was to find a way to heat the whole duplex apartment with a restricted electricity supply that we were unable to easily upgrade due to the nature of the building.

Originally on LPG the properties multiple apartments were slowly having their gas boilers decommissioned as they weren’t up to regulations and switching over to electric boilers. Unfortunately to heat the whole apartment required two 22kW boilers, which was not viable on the incoming supply.

The solution we offered was with the Herschel far infrared heaters, which due to their efficiency are able to provide enough heat on half the output to be able to heat the whole apartment on less than 22kW.

The final design took a few meetings and phone calls to finalise with us wanting to make sure that the client had exactly what they needed in the apartment and the finish was to their particular taste. A two stage approach was taken on the project, the first of which is now completed and the rooms are now being finished with fresh paint and new furniture.

The main lounge was a large 7m x 6m room approximately and now has four 1800W white Pulsars positioned around it’s beautiful central chandelier. The study was the second room to complete and that now houses a 1200W Herschel picture heater from the Inspire range.

LED Install, Domestic Solar and Far Infrared

Utility trade not only look after over 4,000 businesses across the UK. We also work with domestic customers. Before Christmas 2016, over a period of 4 weeks, we installed a 1.82kw, roof mounted Solar PV, replaced 38 bulbs with LED bulbs and installed 2 x 350w Far Infrared Panels and 1 x 700w Far Infrared Panel into a house in Northamptonshire. The client got in touch through a recommendation as she wanted to become more energy efficient and reduce her carbon footprint.

LED (replaced 38 bulbs with LED bulbs)
Annual Cost of Current Lighting: £361.89
Annual Cost of LED Lighting: £49.53
Savings in Year 1: £312.33

Solar (1.82kw, 7 x 265w Poly Panels, immersion controller & Solis Inverter)
Savings in Year 20; £9,051.61

Infrared (2 x 350w Far Infrared Panels and 1 x 700w Far Infrared)
Current Annual Consumption:  6,552kWh
Infra-Red Panels Annual Consumption: 1,528.8kWh
Reduction on current consumption: 76%

Client Testimonial
“Thanks again Phil for all your kind help & attention from start to finish, includes Sophie also, everything went really smoothly & to schedule, couldn’t have gone better”

A Northamptonshire Nursing Home

The challenge: Built over a hundred years ago and set in four acres of its own landscaped grounds, the property had been the home to some of the most eminent families in the region.

The home was off mains gas and running on oil boilers to provide heat and hot water for the nursing home. The challenge was to reduce their heating bills looking at what renewable energy options were available. To carefully install not affecting the period setting of the property.

The boiler house and pellet fuel store were to be located away from the main property to give easy access for fuel delivery and minimal disruption to the home throughout the installation process. The solution:

Our experienced installation team at Utility Trade worked closely with the owner and her team by installing a 330KW Biomass Heating System, to reduce running costs and carbon emissions at the same time as benefiting from the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).

The annual benefits:
Savings vs Oil Bill £9,234 per annum

Commercial RHI Payment £34,960 per annum

Total benefit of system £43,341 per annum*

*The figures are anticipated

Schools and Solar PV 2017

Reducing carbon footprints and learning coming hand in hand…

The up take of solar has been especially strong with schools for Utility Trade in the first quarter of 2017.    Utility Trade completed several installations of Solar PV for a mixture of schools, academies and private schools in the first three months of the year.

The installations ranged from 10.8kW to 49.8kW and will be providing the schools with a 109,008kWh a year in solar generated electricity. This will reduce their carbon footprint by 48.9 tonnes of CO2 a year and save them thousands in energy costs.

We installed SolarEdge inverters and optimisers to increase the system yields, improve safety and ease maintenance in the future. The schools are also using the monitoring platform as teaching aids to involve the children in the schools green ambitions.

In the case of Witham Hall the school requested that the panels were an all black panel to blend in with the roof of their new build sports hall and the results were fantastic.

Solar PV for Midland based Veterinary Hospital

Veterinary groups are seeing a continuous increase in energy demand and costs as technology develops and power becomes a vital part for this business sector.

Pool House Veterinary Group saw this and wanted to secure a long term solution.

Utility Trade installed a 25Kw Solar PV system with great results;

87 JA Solar PV panels.

Over the 20years:

£74’000 Savings in electricity

£55’700 in FIT’s

£11’960 in Export Tariff

Rainbows Hospice Goes Solar!

Rainbows Hospice are the only Childrens Hospice in the East Midlands. They provide help and support, at present, to over 320 children, young people and their families from across the region. The children that visit Rainbows all suffer from a terminal illness – their visits can vary from hours to years depending on their condition. With a focus on fun and laughter, Rainbows are there to make every moment count for the people that need it most.

The hospice consumes alot of electricity due to the specialist equipment they have on site so we thought having solar would benefit them greatly, and it will!

Utility Trade have installed a 49.59kW system, 174 Panels.  The system will pay for itself after 6 years and reduce their electricity bills dramatically.

Over the 20 years:

£144,508.17 Savings in electricity

£115,566.36 in FIT’s

Parr Automotive gives UT Power the green light on Solar PV

Parr Automotive, a well established MOT and car servicing company based in Market Harborough gave Utility Trade the go ahead to install Solar PV. Due to their ever increasing demand for energy this was the perfect solution to their needs.

Parr Automotive, a well established MOT and car servicing company based in Market Harborough gave Utility Trade the go ahead to install Solar PV. Due to their ever increasing demand for energy this was the perfect solution to their needs.

After completing the feasibility on site Utility Trade sized up a 15.675 Kw System, Based on 55 285W JA Solar mono PV.  Generating 13,025 Kwh in the first year alone.

Total Benefits: 

Electric Savings: £36’793.52

FiT Income: £36’614.44

Export Tariff: £7’582.41

Total Benefits: £80’990.36

*20 year predicted

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