North Devon Homes Making heat cheaper, smarter and greener – Boxergy
Funded Project: Description
This project will trial a new technology called Boxergy, which combines highly efficient electric heating with energy storage. With a time of use electricity tariff, the system can significantly reduce the heating costs for households currently using night storage heaters and aims to offer heating costs comparable to or cheaper than gas boilers.
There will be 7 Boxergy systems installed, benefiting 9 socially rented homes using night storage heaters and located in villages between South Molton and Tiverton in North Devon. These will include 3-bedroom houses which will have an individual Boxergy system and semi-detached bungalows which will share a system.
The project will include an evaluation carried out by National Energy Action (NEA), investigating resident satisfaction, ease of use, running costs and reliability. Performance will be compared to the resident’s previous energy consumption and against comparable households with night storage heaters .