{"id":20401,"date":"2015-10-07T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=20401"},"modified":"2015-10-07T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:38:59","slug":"home-appliances-heat-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/home-appliances-heat-home\/20401\/","title":{"rendered":"Could home appliances heat your home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span>An engineering firm has claimed the heat given off by home appliances could be used to warm homes\u2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It sounds bizarre, but your TV and refrigerator could be used to heat your home. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxfordham.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Max Fordham<\/span><\/a>, one of Britain\u2019s leading engineering consultancies, has claimed utilising the heat from these types of appliances could make central heating systems redundant in the future.<\/p>\n<p>According to the firm, effective insulation could mean heat produced by these appliances could be sufficient to keep homes warm all year round. Central heating would only be required on the very coldest days.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, which would reduce the amount of energy needed to heat homes, would help with the cost of fuel bills, as well as cutting CO2 emissions. It would also improve fuel security in Britain, reducing the nation\u2019s reliance on imported oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>Max Fordham also criticised misguided planning regulations, which had resulted in putting systems into place that were ineffective. This includes the Combine Heat and Power schemes (CHP), which use heat produced as a by-product of power generation, and District Heating, which involves a centralised system that distributes heat to multiple properties. Max Fordham said both of these systems could be highly inefficient, as the systems burn energy all year round.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Watts, senior partner at Max Fordham said: \u201cInstead of installing complicated heating systems, developers should insulate new builds more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA well-insulated home should only need to be heated for a few days a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese complicated heating systems are on all year round, producing fifty-two weeks of heating bills for heat that customers don\u2019t use or need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CHP and District Heating systems can cost up to around \u00a350,000 for new dwellings over a 25-year period. These systems, which have been installed in over 21,000 homes in London alone, have taken over \u00a31bn from development funds.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThese systems add a huge upfront cost to new developments which might be acceptable if they actually saved energy.<\/p>\n<p>The absurd fact is that not only are they a waste of money, but they\u2019re a waste of resources too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority must be insulating our homes. Good insulation reduces the amount of energy required to keep our homes warm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also ensures that all of the heat generated internally \u2013 by the kitchen fridge or even your own body heat \u2013 remains trapped inside, further reducing the need to import any additional heat energy into the home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think? 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Max Fordham, one of Britain\u2019s leading engineering consultancies, has claimed utilising the heat from these types of appliances could make central heating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Could home appliances heat your home? | Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An engineering firm has claimed the heat given off by home appliances could be used to warm homes\u2026\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/home-appliances-heat-home\/20401\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Could home appliances heat your home?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An engineering firm has claimed the heat given off by home appliances could be used to warm homes\u2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/home-appliances-heat-home\/20401\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBCToday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-07T11:38:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dreamstime_m_2701979.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"811\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lisa Carnwell\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@PBC_Today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PBC_Today\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/home-appliances-heat-home\/20401\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/home-appliances-heat-home\/20401\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lisa Carnwell\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/a3c579395b9fa3afe1bb370843acfc38\"},\"headline\":\"Could home appliances heat your home?\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-10-07T11:38:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/home-appliances-heat-home\/20401\/\"},\"wordCount\":421,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Energy News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/home-appliances-heat-home\/20401\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2015\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/home-appliances-heat-home\/20401\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/home-appliances-heat-home\/20401\/\",\"name\":\"Could home appliances heat your home? 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