‘ Alliance Heat Pumps work on the same principle as air
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conditioners, extracting ambient heat from
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the atmosphere but, instead, transferring it
to water.
In a typical South African home, it is estimated that approximately 50-60% of electricity consumed is used to heat water. The biggest culprit is your good old geyser. Now that it’s winter, everyone is taking longer, hotter showers and heating their homes electrically in a bid to keep warm. Naturally, this translates to greater electricity usage and a more expensive power bill at the end of each month. In 2022, the cost of electricity is increasing by 25%. This means your energy-guzzling geyser is costing 25% more to run than in 2021. With no end to price hikes seemingly in sight, many consumers are switching to cost-effective, modern energy-efficient technologies from Alliance for solutions to their residential and commercial water heating woes. This was the case for a private residential homeowner earlier this year. The client’s home was disconnected from the national energy grid and installed with a 7kWh solar photovoltaic system (PVS) that uses 28 x 250-watt photovoltaic solar panels to generate electricity. Installation was expertly done by Eco Simply Solar. To reduce the size of the PVS required for the property, Fourways Group supplied an Alliance 5kW hot water heat pump that was installed onto an existing 200-litre geyser. Traditionally, a 200-litre geyser requires a 4kWh electrical element for full efficiency. This is not practical with a PV system as the geyser’s element would require a much larger solar array. Its 4kWh element would take 2.9 hours to heat the water inside and consume an electricity total of 11.6kWh. At a tariff of R2.10 per kWh, it would cost R24.36 per heating cycle to heat the water within.
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