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Enjoy wood burning when you can still do it..
Likely to be banned.
And coal , I read somewhere that by 2029 solid fuels for house holds will be no more .
Not sure if that's true I use both wood and coal .
I'm at the present looking at ground heat , solar and water / hydro as we've a stream running past the house.
I would recommend a heat pump (ground source is very efficient but expensive to install) solar is good and simple if you can use all the generated power. But we never installed a hydro system because we could never make it pay on a small scale as you have to pay for an abstraction licence!
Do you have to pay for an abstraction license if the stream is on your land?
The stream starts as a spring on our land and comes down past the house .
We also use another spring as our water source for the house, boar hole .
I'm looking at options at the moment do you have any links or more info on heat pumps pls .
Pm me if you like .
Cheers
Curly I have air source heat pump, solar panels, in my present house and in the one in Shropshire we had thermal water and panels and like you had our own spring water. I looked at hydro electric but you need quite a large quantity of water that falls from quite a height to make it work. We could just do it but the motor would have had to be right by the house and would have been noisy so we didn't bother. Air source heat pump is the way to go. Depending on your epc, the worse it is the more you get, I get £110 a month, every month for running mine. It more than pays for all of my electricity and we are a total electric house. That lasts for seven years. On the panels the FIT is not much but you still get paid 50% for feeding back into the grid and on hydro it is 75%. I am a bit geeky about the whole thing so can probably answer most questions you have.
E
I may be wrong but I think that yes you would need an abstration licence even if it is on your own land. There are regions of the UK that don't need to worry about licences (Okehampton- for our borehole for example) but most of the rest of the UK they do apply.
Likely to be banned.
Enjoy wood burning when you can still do it..
Likely to be banned.
And coal , I read somewhere that by 2029 solid fuels for house holds will be no more .
Not sure if that's true I use both wood and coal .
I'm at the present looking at ground heat , solar and water / hydro as we've a stream running past the house.
And coal , I read somewhere that by 2029 solid fuels for house holds will be no more .
Not sure if that's true I use both wood and coal .
I'm at the present looking at ground heat , solar and water / hydro as we've a stream running past the house.
I would recommend a heat pump (ground source is very efficient but expensive to install) solar is good and simple if you can use all the generated power. But we never installed a hydro system because we could never make it pay on a small scale as you have to pay for an abstraction licence!
I would recommend a heat pump (ground source is very efficient but expensive to install) solar is good and simple if you can use all the generated power. But we never installed a hydro system because we could never make it pay on a small scale as you have to pay for an abstraction licence!
Do you have to pay for an abstraction license if the stream is on your land?
The stream starts as a spring on our land and comes down past the house .
We also use another spring as our water source for the house, boar hole .
I'm looking at options at the moment do you have any links or more info on heat pumps pls .
Pm me if you like .
Cheers
Curly I have air source heat pump, solar panels, in my present house and in the one in Shropshire we had thermal water and panels and like you had our own spring water. I looked at hydro electric but you need quite a large quantity of water that falls from quite a height to make it work. We could just do it but the motor would have had to be right by the house and would have been noisy so we didn't bother. Air source heat pump is the way to go. Depending on your epc, the worse it is the more you get, I get £110 a month, every month for running mine. It more than pays for all of my electricity and we are a total electric house. That lasts for seven years. On the panels the FIT is not much but you still get paid 50% for feeding back into the grid and on hydro it is 75%. I am a bit geeky about the whole thing so can probably answer most questions you have.
E
Do you have to pay for an abstraction license if the stream is on your land?
Cheers
I may be wrong but I think that yes you would need an abstration licence even if it is on your own land. There are regions of the UK that don't need to worry about licences (Okehampton- for our borehole for example) but most of the rest of the UK they do apply.
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