Monday 7 September 2020
Could infra-red heating be the key to cutting emissions?
Could infra-red heating be the key to cutting emissions?
Energy Carbon believes so - the South Coast start-up has won a contract to supply an innovative heating technology, created by experts from the University of Stuttgart, to the UK.
The infra-red technology provides heat to the objects in a room rather than the empty space, meaning warmth can be supplied more quickly and cleanly than using traditional methods.
The heat is emitted by heating fleece just 0.4mm thick, which is plastered into the ceiling or placed directly behind plasterboard - from its hidden location, it provides the same sort of infra-red heat that babies receive in incubators.
Founder and Director Nick Gander said: “As societies, we’re on a mission to drastically cut the amount of carbon we produce between now and 2050.
“Heating accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any other source – 37% of the UK’s total – and if every heating system in the country was replaced with infra-red, that figure would be dramatically reduced.
“In the beginning, infra-red technology wasn’t without its problems. It could delaminate and fail, or develop unsafe hot spots. But over years of intensive research and development, our German partners have solved those issues.
“We know there’s no one single ‘magic bullet’ solution to low-carbon heating – the eco-friendly homes of the future will inevitably use a variety of different heating technologies - but we believe that infra-red heating will play a critical role in making Britain’s homes more energy-efficient than ever before."
