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Welcome, to a Warm, Comfortable, Energy Saving Home . . .
It's not good news for any of us that home energy costs are at an all time high. So, what can we do about it?
These pages will give you an insight into our range of energy efficient solutions which could save you many hundreds of dollars each year,
whilst also combatting the adverse effects on the environment by reducing
carbon emissions.
Heating your home with panel radiators/convectors
Hydronic Central heating
If designed, installed and used correctly, hydronic central
heating can be economical and highly effective in most homes.
(Skyline Energy can provide you with a no-obligation quote
for a heating system designed for your home)
Water is heated, and then pumped through piping to panel
radiators or convectors positioned in each room. Heat is transferred
directly from these to the room air.
Benefits include:
- Manual or automatic control valves to each panel allow individual
rooms or zones* to be heated independently
- Panel radiators provide effective heating for rooms with
high or low ceilings
- Response time is generally good, and you will feel warm
within 30 minutes.
- Low maintenance requirements.
- The proven effectiveness of central heating - widely used
in Europe for almost a century.
How Much ?Skyline Energy can provide a full design, and supply a complete kit and technical support for your builder/local trades to install - it's not rocket science, or a full installation (depending on actual location)
Generally, the larger the project the lower the cost per square meter.
email your house plan here
Hydronic central heating is:
- Safe - There is no danger of burn or scald as the
system is fully enclosed with radiator temperatures well
below boiling point. The surface temperature of natural
convectors is pleasantly warm to the touch.
- Efficient - Our "New-Age" heat-pump systems
require minimal energy to maintain a comfortable temperature.
- Quiet - Natural air flow will caress your body
with warmth,
Home heating with water filled radiators
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THEY DON'T WORK WELL ENOUGH IN WINTER! |
Ask this question of your Solar Hydronics supplier:
Over the heating season, what percentage of the total energy will come from the Solar, and how much from the "back-up" heater ?
For most homes, solar is just not a cost-efficient option for hydronic heating, typically providing
only about 20% of the energy required. (unless you have massive water storage - thousands of litres in insulated tanks, to collect and store lots of energy when it available, and deliver it over winter)
In normal winter conditions, a Cold Climate Hydronics heat-pump will use less energy than the booster required in a solar-boosted hydronics system. If you are in a natural gas area, you'll probably just use a straight gas boiler, if no gas use a correctly sized hydronic heat-pump.
We recommend Air-Sourced heat-pumps over Geothermal heaters, WHY?
click here for a more detailed explanation.
If you don't have adequate power supply for the required heat-pump, only then would you choose an LPG boiler.
Note: The only other exception to this would be if the energy harnessed over summer could be fully utilised for a secondary purpose such as Pool heating. The additional cost of including a solar tube array system may then be justified.
- In summer, evacuated tube systems can provide 100% of the energy required for domestic potable hot water
- In winter and in the colder climates they will need to run their boosters to ensure a safe water temperature.
- In the Southern States, home heating in winter requires far more energy than potable hot water.
In the Southern States where winter heating is a necessity, evacuated tubes just do not provide enough energy when needed most, and for most home installations, can therefore at best only provide a token input.
- If you are in a natural gas area, you'll probably just use a straight gas boiler, if no gas use a heat-pump.
- In normal winter conditions, a heat-pump will use less power than the booster required in an evacuated tube hydronics system.
- If you don't have adequate power supply for the required heat-pump, only then would you choose an LPG boiler.
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Natural GAS Boiler 
Nothing to get excited about here, its just a GAS boiler!
- Cheap to buy, cheap to run etc. etc.
- Combo models available for domestic hot water AND hydronics in single unit
- Available in various sizes to suit system demand
- LPG models also available - but LPG is VERY expensive to run - recommend using air-sourced heat-pump if adequate electricity supply available
Heat-Pump Water Heaters:
Geothermal Below ground, the temperature doesn't fluctuate as much as above ground. We can take advantage of that by burying pipes underground to extract heat. Generally, the deeper you go the ground gets warmer. The problem with Geothermal systems is that the cost of burying the pipes far outweighs the operating cost savings compared to an air-sourced heat-pump. (you will never save enough in lower operating costs, when compared to the installed cost of an air-sourced system)
Air-Sourced
HEATING THE NATURAL WAY:
An air-sourced hydronic heat pump uniquely extracts solar heat energy found abundant in the in air and transfers it to water.
The completed system is comprised of:
- Radiators & towel rails
- 1 or more Heater Units
- Flow & return lines
- Buffer Tanks & expansion sub-system
- Recirculating pumps
- Wall mounted thermostat (or wireless thermstat) for Zone control
We create a primary circuit through the heat-pump and buffertank, and secondary circuit through the buffertank and radiators
Our range of sensational air-souced heat-pumps are rated from 10kw to 200kw
output.
These "21st Century" Hydronic Water Heaters are unlike any other, because:
- They have sensationally low running costs
- They can keep your home warm all winter regardless of weather
- They are very durable and robust
- Various sized units from 10kw to 200kw output
- We don't use under- capacity units boosted by electric elements
How does it work?
Our air-sourced hydronic heat-pump slab water heaters operate on a similar principle as
a refrigerator or reverse-cycle air-conditioner.
An Ecological Solution:
HEATING THE NATURAL WAY:
An air-sourced heat pump uniquely extracts solar heat energy found abundant in the air and transfers it to water.
The mysterious heat pump.
At first, our claims about this being a high efficiency solar system may seem outrageous, but really its quite simple - there is no magic, just science. Pushing refrigerant through a massive heat-exchanger at about -28oC, it readily absorbs solar energy in the form of heat out the air. Because they don’t rely on direct sunlight radiation, they can operate in all seasons of the year, under all conditions; shade, overcast, sun, rain, frost, even at night.
Long after a conventional solar collector array or evacuated tube system has given up and reverted to its booster, our air-sourced heat pump is still absorbing vast amounts of solar energy.
Geothermal systems provide the most efficient heating, however - unlike much of Europe where hydronic heating has been used for decades, in most area’s of Australia an air-sourced heat pump will provide similar performance to a ground sourced (Geothermal) heat pump, but there is no need bury hundreds of metres of pipes in the paddock.
With zoning control and even remote activation by telephone if required, used in conjunction with good building practices such as good insulation, hydronic heating with our state of the art, correctly sized air-sourced heat pumps can be an economical and ecological solution to your home heating requirements
During the life of this product, electricity will be generated
more & more from renewable resources, making it the energy
of choice:
Using the Sustainability Vic target 12% green power figure of 1.093kg CO2/kwh, and the solar contribution
for our heat-pump under melbourne conditions (67%), it will produce 4% less CO2 than gas.
. . . . “let us exceed your expectations”
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