Energy Delivered Free: Heating
with
Solar
Technology
and
Natural Gas
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The Federal German Ministry for the
Economy and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie)
and several federal state governments
are promoting the installation of modern
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gas-condensing
boilers
in
conjunction
with a thermal solar installation. Those
who
decide
in
favour
of
condensing
technology plus solar energy receive cash
from the State.
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Reason for this state
sponsorship is the positive environmental
effects: every square metre of solar
thermal collector can save up to 1,000
kilowatt hours of energy per year, which
otherwise would have to be generated by
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fossil fuels such as natural gas or oil.
What is more, in this way, not only the
nitrogen
dioxide
and
the
carbon
monoxide emissions but also the CO2
emissions are reduced.
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This is what you should look out for
The solar installation normally supports
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the boiler with the heating of water for
domestic use. Hot water demand can be
almost
completely
met
above
all
in
summer by using flat-plate or evacuatedtube
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collectors.
Result:
natural
gas
consumption is reduced, heating costs
are
minimised.
The
annual
demand
satisfaction level of a solar installation
stands at approximately 60 per cent.
Approximately
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40
per
cent
must
be
heated by the boiler.
Typically available on the market are
systems in which the solar installation is
coupled with a gas-condensing boiler and,
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depending on the design, with a separate
domestic
water
tank,
buffer
tank
or
combi tank.
In order to reap the maximum benefit
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from the economic and ecological effects
of a modern heating appliance coupled
with
solar
technology,
homeowners
should not make false economies. This
applies not least to the gas-condensing
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boiler.
An
appliance
example
designed
of
to
a
high-tech
be
optimally
combined with a solar installation, is the
wall-mounted
gas-condensing
boiler
MICROMAT EC by MAN Heiztechnik. Here,
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a pre-mix radiant burner assures perfect
combustion coupled with extremely low
fuel consumption and particularly low,
future-proof emission values. What is
more,
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the
MICROMAT
EC
by
MAN
Heiztechnik is extremely flexible in that it
can be adapted, due to its extremely
broad modulation range, to meet the
most diverse heating requirements from
3 KW and that without having to switch
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on and off frequently. Thus unnecessary
energy loss due to starting-up procedures
is avoided, as are start-up emissions. And
the use of modular pumps, which keep
the difference constant between flow and
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return
temperatures,
significant
costs
pumps
pre-conditions
being
minimum.
also
kept
What
use
is
less
for
consistently
more,
creates
heating
to
a
modulating
electricity
than
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conventional pumps and thus make an
additional contribution to saving energy.
Solar Energy – not just something for
Freaks and Eco-warriors
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Our largest power station is 150 million
kilometres away and is in operation day
and night. The sun gives off an incredible
heat. At its core, temperatures reach
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15.6 million degrees centigrade. What
could be more obvious, than to tap the
potential of this natural power station?
Solar energy is the energy of the future,
and now every homeowner can use it.
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The energy from the cosmos becomes
particularly interesting when it is coupled
with modern gas-condensing technology.
For the latter is synonymous at the
moment with the most economical and
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environmentally
conscious
heating.
Further information:
www.mhg.de
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Press Contact:
form
of
110
Euro RSCG ABC Hamburg
Patrik Buchtien
Phone: +49 (0) 40/431 75-148
Fax: +49 (0) 40/431 75-110
E-mail: patrik.buchtien@eurorscgabc.de