Tepeo recently moved into a new building on the Winnersh industrial estate. I went to the opening and was photographed with the electric boiler they manufacture which runs off mains electricity. They see it as a cheaper and better alternative to a heat pump. It uses a storage heater system to heat the water for your radiators when needed.
March 27, 2024
How is that supposed to work? Night storage prices are no longer very low and the boxes shown are barely bigger than a standard hot water tank. No way they will heat a house
March 29, 2024
Rod suggests it might be a tepid immersion heater. Tepeo’s ZEB looks much better than that, and is worth assessing as an alternative that could suit. Tepeo’s website shows how its intelligence works: https://www.tepeo.com/the-zeb
March 30, 2024
Thanks for the link. So it is indeed night storage heating. The problem is that night time electricity used to be almost free. Now it costs more than daytime did until recently. AND you pay a surcharge for usage for the rest of the day. I know an old lady who still has night storage on Economy 7. She has been paying over £4000pa for a small terraced house. And is projected well over £3000 next year. She is currently paying 15p/kWh night and a punitive 38p day.
So the question is “Do you trust the energy suppliers”?
Me neither
March 30, 2024
Those so-called ‘Economy’ 7 heaters were atrocious. I once chose them only to avoid exposed gas heated water pipes and spoiling parquet floors below. They lacked control and even emitted wasteful unwanted heat on hot days. Tepeo’s ‘intelligent control’ system might have a competitive advantage not yet fully assessed. Being in a remote village I now use oil, but would certainly examine Tepeo more carefully if seeking an alternative.
March 27, 2024
interesting name for a heating company Tepeo? It beats Tepido that’s for sure.
Back in the day when we named things by their basic function, we would have referred to this Electric Boiler concept, an immersion heater.
March 27, 2024
Something that is better than a Heat Pump is very welcome.
Simply better products succeed with consumer demand.
Heat Pumps fail even with Government subsidy.
Good fortune to Tepeo on their own initiative.
March 28, 2024
Gosh! I remember night storage heaters from before we had cheap North Sea gas. Not quite the same thing, I know, but the point is that by storing heat long enough to last 24 hrs, demand management enabled us to buy electricity more cheaply at off-peak rates. Smart meters would do the same and enable a much cheaper national grid, but for their now being so politicised by a not entirely irrational fear of the surveillance state. Just imagine having your power instantly cut off to freeze you in your home until you recant some politically incorrect belief. I wonder if Nigel Farage has a smart meter. The 21st century has brought us The Inquisition with remote control via the Internet.
March 28, 2024
Sir John
Many years ago I had night storage heaters with a second meter. It worked OK but, electricity was a fraction of the price in real terms that it is today.
My question, will the night rate actually be cheaper, given that a very large demand from people charging their EVs will also need to be fulfilled?
March 29, 2024
More info on tepee please