Mitsubishi Electric has launched a website to promote the effectiveness of domestic air source heat pumps in the UK by showing real data gathered from properties around the country that are using its Ecodan system.
The company is monitoring dozens of homes nationwide and has made four of them available for all to see with a specially designed Ecodan 'Dashboard'. This gives visitors an overview of the system, detailing the age and type of property and they can then drill down further and see how the unit is performing at any time of the day, week, month or year, showing the running costs, CO2 emissions and energy consumed, when compared to gas and oil systems.
'We believe that air source heat pumps have a major role to play in the future of residential heating in the UK because of their renewable benefits,' explains John Kellett, general manager of the Domestic Heating Systems Division.
'We also understand that they are still new to a lot of people and we are making this site as open and transparent as possible so that homeowners can see the results for themselves, whether it is in the height of the summer or in the depths of the winter.'
The website gives an overview of the four properties, which includes a three-bed home in Bedfordshire, built in 2008, a three-bed semi-detached house in Hertfordshire, built in 1955, a four-bed executive home in Bedfordshire built in 2000, and a five-bed detached house in Northumberland built in 1999.
Mitsubishi Electric will add further properties over the coming months which will be accessible via the website at
http://dashboard.mitsubishielectric.co.uk
