NIBE DOMESTIC BOILERS 5
Good for your wallet
Forest ‘waste’ wood is often readily available in the countryside,
making the price of fuel low or even zero, for those living nearby.
Pellets are a clean, cost-effective energy source. A pellet-fired boiler
requires less time and effort as it is run automatically by the NIBE PB
10 or NIBE PB 20. The ash cassette only needs to be emptied once
a month.
Even with a domestic boiler which runs purely on electricity, the
initial investment is so low that this can be a viable cost-effective
alternative for homes with very low energy requirements.
Good for the environment
Forests have to be regularly pruned to prevent too tight tree growth,
which makes a certain amount of wood available for domestic use
at no cost to the environment. The CO
2
emitted when the wood is
burned has been taken out of the atmosphere by the growing plant.
This means that when you use a wood fired boiler, the process of
emission and absorption of CO
2
results in a zero net CO
2
output.
However, since the boiler generates more energy than the house
needs at any one time, you also need an accumulator tank to store
the excess for later use.
Combine with solar panels
With these heat storage possibilities offered by an accumulator, you
can also take advantage of solar energy. Place solar panels on the
roof of your home, and hook up your NIBE wood boiler with a con-
trol unit that switches over to solar energy whenever the sun shines.
You can store the sun’s energy for several days in an accumulator
tank. Since solar energy is both cost and emission-free, this is a great
way to supplement your household’s energy supply.
Burn wood pellets
Wood pellets, which are usually made of compressed waste saw-
dust, are another good renewable energy source. What’s more,
a NIBE pellet-fired boiler only produces energy as and when it’s
needed, resulting in a heating system that’s both efficient and con-
venient.
Combine with a heat pump
if you choose an electric boiler, its running costs can be reduced
by connection to NIBE air/water heat pump. NIBE’s air/water heat
pumps extract the energy from the outside air and concentrate it to
provide heat and domestic hot water for your home. Producing ap-
proximately 3 kW of energy for every 1 kW of electricity used, they
lead to very low carbon emissions compared to any traditional fossil
fuel based system.
The attractive but discreet design of NIBE boilers makes them easy to
place in your home.
Consider this
Even allowing for emissions of fossil carbon dioxide in planting, har-
vesting, processing and transporting the fuel, replacing fossil fuel with
wood fuel will typically reduce net CO
2
emissions by over 90%.
