Sustainably efficient: tackle the renovation backlog for night storage heaters with the smart Intelligent Quantum (IQ) storage heating system – bring on the energy revolution!
Kulmbach, March 2015. Around 1.6 million homes in Germany are heated with old-style night storage heaters, which aren’t operating efficiently anymore and should be replaced. Now take the opportunity to modernise your heating: with Intelligent Quantum (IQ) – the smartest and most modern electric storage heaters in the world. Smart energy management offers further efficiency gains: simply install the Dimplex Smart Eco System (S.E.S).
Who really needs electric storage heaters?
Many owners of weekend houses and garden sheds would like to heat their second home cheaply and efficiently. Installation of a full-specification heating system often cannot be justified for smaller accommodation that may be used only infrequently. The same holds true for low-energy houses, which require only minimal heating.
And then there are also the 1.6 million housing units in Germany which still have night storage heaters installed and where the installation of water-circulation central heating would be prohibitively expensive and disruptive. The housing industry thus faces the challenge of providing a future-proof refurbishment solution at a reasonable cost.
In all these cases, a modern form of storage heating can be an interesting and cost-effective alternative in the longer term, also allowing users to benefit immediately from the energy revolution.
The innovative Intelligent Quantum (IQ) electric storage heating system from Dimplex offers the best performance and surprisingly low investment costs. Installation is moreover child's play and offers long-term savings compared to gas or oil-fired central heating. "It's also good for the environment" says Jochen Engelke, Managing Director of Glen Dimplex Deutschland. "Using green electricity reduces CO2 emissions to zero, and the addition of a sophisticated control system can convert fluctuating inputs of energy into sustained heating. Which all goes to show: It's time to get rid of old prejudices against electric heating systems"
Well-designed system solutions for the energy revolution
Modern models such as the IQ from Dimplex have nothing in common with the old unloved night storage heaters. The new generation of this technology stores heat up to five times more effectively than the old current-guzzlers; and since the 1980s, Glen Dimplex Deutschland has rigorously avoided any use of potentially-injurious asbestos.
Intelligent Quantum uses nothing but environmentally-compatible materials such as sheets of mica and iron oxide.
Moreover the installation cost is more or less negligible, and the investment costs are surprisingly low. "This means that modern electric storage heating is outstandingly suitable for replacing existing obsolete night storage heater systems" explains Jochen Engelke: "There are no problems connecting to the existing heating system. The entire available infrastructure can simply be re-used."
Easy to operate, really smart controls
The three product lines mean there is a radiator to suit every home. A quick visit by an electrician is all it takes: unpack, plug in, switch on – "plug & heat" as you might say. The visual design is attractive and looks good, blending unobtrusively into the background. There are five sizes available, two colours (black and white), and a free choice of surfaces (glass or metal). The three integral heater elements can be switched individually in order to store sufficient energy depending on the PV yield and required output, and provide heating to the exact temperature required. The well-designed concept includes controls which offer pre-set scenarios such as programs for working days, for weekends and holidays, thus saving no end of fuss and bother. Of course as you would expect further individual scenarios can be created, allowing the heating output to be regulated continuously. Irrespective of this, the storage heaters are also "Smart Grid ready" for the future electricity market: That means the IQ can automatically detect when solar power is available from your own photovoltaic array – or when the best conditions exist to take power from the mains.
See www.dimplex.de/en/IQ for further information about the Intelligent Quantum range.
Potential savings by smart energy management: Dimplex Smart Eco System
More and more site managers and renovators are recognising the value of smart networking of domestic technology to enable more efficient use of energy. The biggest potential savings can be found by linking up with the photovoltaic array or making use of future electric tariffs where the price varies with the load – and in conjunction with an energy management system such as the Smart Eco System (S.E.S). The S.E.S. provides smart networking of domestic technology and determines the priorities depending on the current demands and ambient conditions. In this way it controls the supply to the various consumers of electricity in the house.
If for instance there is more solar power available from the roof than is immediately required, the S.E.S. activates appropriate recipients which can convert the surplus PV power into heat. That heat is then stored as valuable energy - a function for which Dimplex heat pumps or Intelligent Quantum electric storage heaters are particularly well suited..
With the Smart Eco System, Dimplex offers a solution ideally suited to the IQ. Moreover, using an app or Internet browser the user can access the networked domestic technology from anywhere in the world – to monitor all the operating and consumption data from lighting to storage heaters.
Dimplex Division short profile:
The Dimplex brand stands for the constant search for new ways of simply using energy more efficiently – to help protect valuable resources. Development and production have been carried out at the Kulmbach site in Bavaria for over 35 years: Under the umbrella of Glen Dimplex Deutschland GmbH, Dimplex is the specialist for innovative technologies and products, which help create the optimal temperature and ventilation in domestic environments, as well as industrial and commercial buildings. The Dimplex range of solutions covers ready-to-connect heating devices for quick and flexible use through to systems which are specially designed for using renewable energies. This includes ventilation systems with heat recovery, heating pumps and domestic hot water heat pumps, as well as a new generation of intelligent storage heating systems. The Smart Eco System offers networking across the complete range of domestic technology: for convenient remote control and monitoring, thus achieving even better efficiency.
Dimplex benefits from being part of the internationally active Glen Dimplex Group: With 10,000 employees all around the world and around 2 billion Euro annual turnover, the company operates world-wide as the biggest manufacturer of electric heating devices dedicated to making energy efficiency with green CO2-neutral power a reality.
Innovations for sustainability and economic efficiency:
www.glendimplex.de
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Image 1 – Intelligent Quantum.
Around 1.6 million homes in Germany are heated with old-style night storage heaters. Now take the opportunity to modernise your heating: with Intelligent Quantum – the smartest and most modern electric storage heater in the world.
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