99kW Hargassner ECO-PK

Introducing the new 99kW Hargassner ECO-PK

New to the UK and Ireland in November 2014

Designed with efficiency and ease of use in mind, the 99kW Hargassner ECO-PK includes the latest biomass boiler technology available - the Hargassner ECO range of boilers won the 'Energy Genius' award from the Austrian Ministry of the Environment. 

If you are installing a 99kW in Northern Ireland, to avail of the government Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), make sure you install a system that will last. The 20 year RHI is linked to the boiler itself - protect your payments and install a Hargassner.

Available across Ireland from Green Energy Technology Ltd. this cutting edge wood pellet boiler (and its wood chip version ECO-HK) has a substantial amount of unique, patented features. We estimate that these features, over the lifetime of the Renewable Heat Incentive, could save the owner over £4,000 in electrical running costs alone - compared to Hargassner competitors.

Double Rotary Grate (1)

The 'stage crusher grate' is the best method for cleaning the burning grate without disruption to combustion. During the combustion the grates are moved accurately, to ensure a homogeneous fire-bed. This double rotary grate is unique to Hargassner.

Firebed height monitoring system with sensors    (2)

Combined with a lambda sensor for fuel quality detection, resulting in the lowest carbon monoxide values, and lowest dust emissions. Hargassner boilers are UK Clean Air Act Exempt. Only Hargassner offer firebed level monitoring as standard.

Heat exchanger cleaning in the first pass   (3)

The Hargassner cleaning system cleans all areas where soot and fly ash can built up - even in the first pass (unlike the majority of competitor boilers). This mechanism creates a more efficient heat exchanger as the boiler is cleaner, and the gas flow is slower.

External soot collection   (4)

Option to add a large soot collector and increase emptying intervals

The silent energy saving ignition (5) only requires 300W, unlike other boiler ignitions which require over 1.3kW. 

Integrated touch controller    (6)

The 5.7” screen with touch controller allows the user to easily see the boiler status, and change settings. 

The EC exhaust gas fan (7) has up to 90% efficiency and is only available from Hargassner. Read more about the EC fan here: EC Exhaust Gas Fan

Flue gas re-circulation as standard    (8)

This helps control combustion temperatures and reduce NOx formation. It reduces the temperature of the grate to help prevent the formation of slag, and give a more even distribution of the fires heat. A cleaner and more complete combustion.

Integrated back-end protection   (9)

The pump, mixing valve and actuator needed to protect the boiler now comes integrated. This compact solution reduces the space required and speeds up installation time.

Patented ash and fly ash removal system   (10)

The ash extracting auger transports the fly ash and also the grate ash into the ash box. On the way to the ash box all the ash is compacted to a quarter of its volume - thereby saving space and lengthening emptying intervals.

No thermal safety valve required  (11) 

Speeding up installation time and cost

Combustion chamber surrounded by water  (12)

Maximum heat transfer and boiler control

Flame concentration jets out of high-end steel cast section   (13)

Double rotary valve dispenser (18) with cyclone suction system (14)

The unique double rotary valve allows continuous combustion even during pellet suction. The double valve provides a complete air lock between the combustion chamber and pellet hopper. The sound proofed suction system (15) with pellet level indicator (16) allows the end-user to place their wood pellet store up to 20 metres away. The suction system is closed and maintenance free (no filters).

Stainless steel stoker auger   (17)

One motor for everything

Boiler cleaning, fly ash transport, grate ash removal and ash transport to ash box is all handled by one drive motor. This is a single maintenance-free gear motor. This not only reduces the number of electrical components and increases operating reliability; it also saves on electrical consumption.

Hargassner App

Hargassner is the only manufacturer in this boiler class to have a dedicated and fully functioning iPhone and Android app to allow remote access. Other manufacturers produce apps that simply direct the user to a website. 

·         Switch circuits on/off and reduce temperature

·         Change heating times

·         Activate holiday mode

·         Status updates via notifications or email

·         Unlimited users

·         Worldwide access to heating system

·         Easy and intuitive

Fully refractory-lined combustion chamber

Hargassner boilers are fully refractory lined with high density bricks. Refractory has proven itself as the best material available in terms of heat storage, function and durability. The result is, even at partial loads, optimal combustion and fewer ignitions.

Negative pressure sensor to monitor under/over pressure events

Boilers without negative pressure monitoring cannot detect blockages in the heat exchanger. In addition, exhaust gas and combustion air fans do not speed up nor slow down in relation to the pressure inside the boiler - making other boilers less efficient. 

Standard warranty of 5 years, option to extend up to 10 years

Hargassner Video: http://youtu.be/0BELFxbP308

For futher information contact : Green Energy Technology Ltd

www.get-renewables.com

NI Domestic Renewable Heating Incentive - For people considering or intending to apply

Advance Information

The Domestic RHI is not yet open however it will be launched by the end of the year. The NI Renewable Heat Incentive is a government financial incentive, you'll receive an initial upfront payment and then payments every 12 months for 7 years. This scheme is designed primarily with single homes in mind however anyone can benefit from the RHI payments for their home, all you'll require is an EPC or Energy Performance Certificate and this proves that your property is assessed as a domestic dwelling. You'll need this in order to apply for the NIRHI.

If the above doesn't apply for you, you'll need to take a look at non-domestic RHI. It's for renewable incentives designed around Industrial, Commercial or Public Premises. It also covers heating systems that heat more than one home, such as two houses or a block of flats.

Eligible Heating Systems

The eligible renewable heating system types for the Domestic RHI are:

• Biomass Boilers*
• Air Source Heat Pumps
• Ground Source Heat Pumps
• Solar Thermal Panels - Flat Plate or Evacuated Tube Only

*Biomass Boilers does include Biomass Stoves that are equipped with a boiler to provide heating through a wet radiator system. Initially this will include all types as accredited under MCS but the Stoves that do not use wood pellets will be under close review. Your system must be metered if you have a boiler or stove and also another system, like an oil boiler.

Check your product

It's not enough to just have one of the types of renewable heating systems that are eligible for the scheme. The make and model must also meet specific technical requirements, check your specific product is in the Product eligibility list. If it's not you need to contact your installer to discuss the next steps.

Northern Ireland Domestic RHI and Energy Efficiency

Because Renewable Heating Systems work best in a well insulated home, the Northern Ireland Domestic RHI wishes to encourage people to make their homes more energy efficient, Before applying to the Domestic RHI you must first:

• Install loft and cavity wall insulation to current recommended standards. If it is not possible to do this, then you should submit evidence to us as part of your application. 
• Get an updated EPC to verify your insulation and your renewable heat installation.

If you intend to apply

• You must be the owner of an eligible heating system.
• The property must be occupied as a dwelling.
• Your renewable heating system must be MCS certified.
• No part of the renewable heating system used to produce heat may be used before the first commissioning date. The date is on your MCS Certificate. Some parts may be exempt.
• The heating system must have been first commissioned on or after 1st September 2010. The date is on your MCS certificate.
• You must apply within 12 months of the commissioning date of the heating system, shown on the MCS certificate. The deadline is different if you installed your heating system before the scheme opened. You must apply within the first year, i.e. before 30 November 2015.
• If you received RHPP (Renewable Heat Premium Payment), DetiNI will make contact with you, so you will not have to do anything.
• If you received a public grant other than the RHPP you will not be eligible for the NIRHI.
• To be eligible, you or the former owner must also have made a personal financial contribution to the purchase or installation costs.

Supplying Proof

Your installer will register your renewable heating system and give you the MCS Certificate, to apply you complete an application form found on NI Direct Energy Wise web page you will also need an MCS Installations Certificate and an EPC number. This is at the top of your certificate and is a 20 digit code e.g. 1234-5678-9101-1121-314. Ensure that your EPC includes an estimated Potential Energy Use including figures for heating, hot water and lighting.

Payment Information

For most, payments made on an estimation of your heating system's annual heat use. For Biomass and Heat Pump systems DetiNI take the heat load figure on the EPC. For Solar Thermal, DetiNI use a figure calculated from information on your MCS certificate. Some people will have to install meters and submit regular readings on which payments will be based. This includes, but is not limited to, those with a back-up heating system such as an oil boiler, and those with a property which is a second home.

The domestic RHI payments have two sections, one is an upfront payment to help with the costs on accreditation and an ongoing incentive in the form of annual payment for seven years. The upfront payment is dependant on what technology you're using and the ongoing payment is dependant on how much Energy you use in your home.

The upfront payments are as follows:

• Biomass - £2500
• Air Source Heat Pumps - £1700
• Ground Source Heat Pumps - £3500
• Solar Thermal -  £320

If you've already received support for under the RHPP you will receive the ongoing payment only. The ongoing payments are calculated by multiplying a tariff with the heat demand/use in your home. The current tariff rates (p/kWh) are as follows;

• Biomass:                                 5.6 p/kWh
• Air Source Heat Pump:         3.5 p/kWh
• Ground Source Heat Pump: 8.2 p/kWh
• Solar Thermal:                       13.5 p/kWh

Your Responsibilities

A condition of you joining the scheme is that you will abide by the scheme's rules. They include, but are not limited to:

• Keeping the heating system and metering equipment in good working order
• Telling DetiNI of the equipment breaks down and isn't working whilst waiting on repairs.
• Telling DetiNI if you sell your house (with the heating system in it), in which case payments to you will stop and switch to the new owner, should they apply to the scheme and fill certain conditions.
• Telling DetiNI if you make any changes to your heating system, for example, if you replace a part of it.
• Telling DetiNI if there are changes that mean your property needs to be metered, for example if you purchase a second home.
• Telling DetiNI if there is any change in circumstances, that may affect your eligibility to receive payments.

Audit Checks

To continue to receive payments, you'll have to complete an annual declaration confirming that you've kept to the rules. To help protect the public purse, DetiNI carry out a system of desk and site audits to verify that declarations are accurate. They're randomly chosen, so anyone may be selected at any time.

If you've received RHPP in the past when your boiler was installed then you will not be eligible for the subsidized up-front payment the RHPP was a one-off payment to help with covering some of the cost of the boiler. You will still be eligible for the seven year annual payment plan.

For all enquiries regarding NIRHI, call - 02890529219 or Email: NI.RHI@detini.gov.uk

For more information regarding NIRHI please see the following:

• http://www.detini.gov.uk/index/what-we-do/deti-energy-index/renewable_heat.hmtl
• www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/information-and-services/enviroment-and-greener-living/energy-wise.htm
• www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/information-and-services/enviroment-and-greener-living/energy-wise/energy-saving-grants/renewable-heat-grants/renewable-heat-incentive.htm

Nursing home group goes Green

Spa Nursing Homes Limited converting four care homes to wood pellet fuel in 2014

Spa Nursing Homes selected Green Energy Technology Ltd., (GET) to convert their care homes from heating oil to wood pellet fuel. The first home has been completed, with GET installing an award winning Hargassner wood pellet boiler in a turn-key plant room at The Spa Nursing Home in county Down.

This 'GET Heat Module' is constructed off site, to minimise disruption at the nursing home. Once it is delivered to site, it can be connected to the building and provide heat within 2 days. During this time there is no interruption to the existing heating performance.

In addition to the nursing home in The Spa, GET will be converting homes in Crumlin, Carryduff and Ballynahinch from heating oil to wood pellets.

Externally the GET Heat Module is finished to a high standard, and is linked to a wood pellet silo. Any external pipework is insulated and protected.

The main driver for the installation of these systems at Spa Nursing Homes Limited is the Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The RHI pays the owners of wood pellet boilers for every unit of heat the boiler generates, this is an incentive for switching from fossil fuels. Although there are no grants to assist with the capital costs, the quarterly incentive payments mean that these projects have a payback of 4 years or less.

Damien Phillips, Project Manager at GET, stated: 'The four nursing home conversions represent a large investment by the group, however, there is a relatively short payback due to the RHI. Looking at the longer term, using Hargassner boilers means we have a high-tech solution requiring minimal involvement by nursing home staff, and GET has the ability to monitor each boiler remotely.'

The Hargassner wood pellet boiler is integrated with a complete plant room package.

The RHI scheme lasts for 20 years, and payments are index linked. In addition to the financial benefits of switching to wood pellets, it also means the nursing homes will reduce their environmental impact and help support local jobs. All pellets will be sourced from the island of Ireland.

Chris Arnold, from Spa Nursing Homes Ltd., commented; 'Overall the experience of moving away from heating oil has been relatively straightforward. Once we examined the financials and the overall benefits, it was an easy decision to make. We wanted a quality installation, Hargassner and GET met our requirements. GET took care of everything, right through to claiming the RHI payments. We are looking forward to working with GET on the rest of our properties.'

Damien Phillips continued; 'With a twenty year government incentive it is important that a quality product is used. Hargassner boilers are design to last. They are tried and tested, and if properly maintained they will last well over 30 years'.

Green Energy Technology Ltd. are based in Waringstown, between Banbridge and Lurgan, and have a showroom open to the public with working models of all technologies. Their previous biomass heating projects include Castlewellan Castle, Moy Park Poultry farm, as well as factories, offices and accomodation.

For enquiries contact Damien on 02838881228 or damien(at)get-renewables.com

Wood Pellet Stoves - by MCZ

Wood Pellet Stoves

A cleaner, more efficient alternative

2012 has been a busy year for Green Energy Technology, and one of our most popular installs was Wood Pellet Stoves. We install wood pellet stoves that heat individual or open plan rooms, stoves that can heat multiple rooms using air ducting or wood pellet stoves with back boiler that heat entire houses using radiaotr or underfloor heating. 

Wood pellet stoves a very versatile appliance.

All stoves have Automatic ignition, thermostatic controls and heat modulation.

See below for a sample of our stoves installed across Northern Ireland in 2012.

An insert wood pellet stove with back boiler. Vivo 80 Hydro from MCZ.
This stove provides 14kW to the heating hot water, and 2.7kW to the room.

Features :

• Fully automated operation, with timer and temperature controls
• Attractive stainless steel or ceramic panels
• Output to suit all room sizes
• Internal hoppers for long running between fuel top-ups
• Visible flame and hot air feed to the room via an internal fan
• Ducting to heat other rooms up to 8 metres away

An Ego Air 8kW room heating stove. Installed in a sun room with vaulted ceiling.
This wood pellet stove allowed the homeowners to use the room all year round.

Kaika 6kW Wood Pellet Stove, installed in a sun room.
Extra vitreous enameled flue allows extra heat generation.

 MCZ Musa Hydro 15kW Wood Pellet Boiler Stove installed in Banbridge, Co Dow

n. Running 10 radiators and a 150 litre hot water tank on only 15kg of pellets a day

 

MCZ Musa Hydro 22kW wood pellet boiler - heating a large home

MCZ Kaika in a contemporary setting. Minimal internal flue required.

MCZ Toba Comfort Air. Hot air is ducted around the entire building.
A very low energy home, with heat recovery ventilation.

Green Heat Module from Wood Energy Ltd

 What is the Green Heat Module?

The Green Heat Module offers you the ultimate retro-fit solution to achieve low carbon heat with the minimum of fuss. Everything you need is included in the module so that we can arrive on site, hook up to your existing heating distribution system and fire you up!  Complete, turnkey, 'in the box' thinking from Green Energy Technology in partnership with industry leaders - Wood Energy Ltd - we have done the thinking so you don't have to!

The level of tariff is set from the date of registration but will be decreased as more organisations sign up, so to maximise the level of 20 year fixed tariff available to your project, you should act now.

If you've got a carbon-saving target or want to reduce your dependency on heating from fossil fuels - whether for cost or fuel security reasons, there's something new that you need to know.

Subject to the passage of appropriate legislation in autumn 2012, DETI will introduce the Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive for the non-domestic sector. The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is designed to accelerate the deployment of a number of technologies including biomass boilers. The RHI is a fixed, index-linked income paid to you for every unit of heat you generate from renewable sources over a 20 year period, protected and guaranteed by primary legislation.

Heat generated by the biomass boiler also means money off your existing heating bill.

The RHI scheme is aimed at all non-domestic applications and you will be paid quarterly by BACS for every kilowatt hour of heat produced by your new biomass boiler based on the meter readings you submit.

The Green Heat Module ranges from 15kW to 200kW with footprints ranging from the
equivalent of three to five parking spaces.

Pre-fabricated plant room includes:

• Biomass boiler
• Buffer tank
• Heating circuit to accumulator tank
• Hydraulic interface to clients heating main
• Frost protection heating
• Interior lighting
• Ventilation
• Flue
• RHI compliant heat meter

Pre-fabricated fuel store includes:

• Pellet extract auger
• Fill & vent pipes
• Earthing points for fuel tanker
• Level observation windows
• Explosion relief panels

Optional features:

• Concrete base (optional) or ability to locate on a tarmac surface such as a car park
• Civil works to connect into existing plant room including waterproofing

Get in touch with Green Energy Technology Ltd and see how our award winning range of Hargassner Boilers, and our Green Heat Module, can drastically reduce your fuel bills.

http://www.woodenergy.com/green-heat-module/what-is-the-green-heat-module.html

NI Renewable Heat Premium Payment Scheme Launched

Starting today Northern Ireland householders will be able to obtain support towards the costs of installing a renewable energy heating system in their homes. Green Energy Technology can offer the full range of grants to their customer. Green Energy Technology is one of the only companies that can offer grants on all these technologies.

Technology	Support per unit (£) in a dwelling
Air Source Heat Pump	1700
Biomass boiler	2500
Ground Source or Water Source Heat Pump	3500
Solar Thermal	320

Launching the scheme, Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said the move will offer local people real choice when it comes to heating their homes.

Arlene Foster said: "Although many householders have had the option of natural gas for a number of years not all can avail of this low carbon fossil fuel. This new scheme will allow all private sector domestic energy consumers to obtain generous financial support towards installing biomass boilers, heat pumps and thermal solar panels in place of existing fossil fuel heating systems.

Green Energy Technology are accredited installers for this scheme - we can provide you with quotes and advice.

Official opening of first Zero Carbon house

Northern Ireland's first Zero Carbon House was officially opened by Environment Minister Alex Attwood & Irish Environment Minister Phil Hogan

All renewable energy equipment was provided and installed by Green Energy Technology Ltd, the company also supplied the whole house energy assessment used to achieve zero carbon standard.

The project was supported by councillors, MLA's, TD's and Ministers from Stormont and Leinster House.

L-R William Irvine MLA, Thomas O'Hanlan SDLP, Damien Philips, John McClatchey, Irish Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan T.D, Minister for Environment Alex Attwood, Heather Humpreys T.D Cavan-Monaghan, Dominic Bradley, Sean Conlon T.D Cavan-Monaghan, Mealla Campbell Deputy Mayor Armagh City & District Council

This home was able to benefit from the Low Carbon Homes Scheme, and as it achieved Zero Carbon standard the owner will not have to pay council rates for 5 years, unfortunately this scheme has now closed.

Further information on the build and technology used can be found here.

The home also benefits from hugely decreased running costs due to the energy efficient design and the renewable technology used. It is estimated that the running costs are up to 70% lower than a regular home.

Patrick Flynn (Director), Damien Phillips (Business Development Manager) and John Martin (Director) from Green Energy Technology Limited

Zero carbon houses will be the standard of building by 2016, but the builder of this home (Green Future Ltd.) have shown that zero carbon is achievable now, and at a sensible price.

All equipment installed by Green Energy Technology will also qualify for any Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive.

For futher information see: http://greenenergytechnologylimited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/first-zero-carbon-home-uses-green.html

Or contact Green Energy Technology Ltd at www.get-renewables.com or 00442838881228