Moving to Orkney

Well, they have been and connected the ground source collector now and what a difference. Our daily electricity consumption has dropped from an average of around £15.50 per day to just £5 per day.

So you see there is heat in that ground!

We're very happy with this as it is significantly less than we paid over the last twelve months for electricity, oil and coal combined. Keep in mind that this cost is our overall electricity cost with substantially everything now on electricity (we have a dual fuel oven so the hob is gas, from a bottle).

We're chuffed to bits.

It is of course early days yet and I'll post here how things go on during the rest of the year, but I would highly recommend anyone to investigate the feasability of a ground source heat pump if they are considering a new heating system.

As  little footnote I monitored the ground source heat pump's energy usage on it's own and it is running at around 26-27kwh per day, so just over 2kw per hour, which to heat the whole house and provide hot water is pretty good. This will of course drop as we further improve the insulation, and of course move into the finer weather.

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