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Why should you upgrade your Heating Controls?

By Sam Braidley · 13 years ago

The home heating system consumes the largest chunk of energy used in your home. Upgrading the heating controls of an average Irish home would save on the average about 20% of it’s annual energy bills. ...

Selecting the Best Suited PV Solar Panels for your building

By Sam Braidley · 13 years ago

PV Panels or modules are undoubtedly among the best suited sustainable energy devices for your home power needs. There are many different types of PV Panels who differ chemically as well as physically. Further the ...

Condensing Boilers – How Efficient are they

By Sam Braidley · 13 years ago

Condensing Boilers they say are the most efficient fuel burning Central Heating System boilers in a building. The efficiencies typically may run as high as 98 % according to claims by the manufacturers. The same ...

Home Power and Sustainability

By Sam Braidley · 13 years ago

Surveys on Home Power consumption in colder countries of the world reveal some interesting facts. Have you any idea what consumes the major chunk of your homes energy usage? Can you do something to tilt ...

Geothermal Systems

By Sam Braidley · 13 years ago

Geothermal Systems are entitled to a grant of Euro 2,000 upwards from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). Interested to know what these Geo Thermal Energy and Geothermal Systems are? Then this article is for ...

Rain Water Harvesting

By Sam Braidley · 13 years ago

Why does Rain Water Harvesting and it’s conservation deserve your consideration? Surely there is an abundance of water everywhere. Except in deserts and arid areas the rain continues to fall on earth as being happening ...

BER– the Building Energy Rating

By Sam Braidley · 13 years ago

BER or Building Energy Rating scheme has been in force in Ireland since 1st January 2009. If you are buying or renting a building can you gauge the energy consumption you would encounter just by ...

Solar Panels

By Sam Braidley · 13 years ago

What are solar panels? Solar panels or solar modules are man made panels which make use of the property of certain material to produce DC electricity when light falls on them. It so happens that ...

Commercially available Photo Voltaic Panels

By Sam Braidley · 13 years ago

On browsing through Photovoltaic solar panel web sites of manufacturers you would come across a variety of specifications, classifications, terminology, and capacities. An average non-technical person would easily get confused instead of getting the information ...