>However, the research did find that better insulated homes used less heat per square metre. A- and B-rated homes consumed 89 KWH against 124 KWH for F- and G-rated properties.
Broke people have to pay the iron price, not the gold
Bit of a weird way of wording it, one of the points is that the A and B rated houses tended to be bigger which used more energy to heat in the first place
That’s a strange conclusion for the CSO to report on. A lot of the lower rated houses will have open fires or stoves, or even room specific electric heating, and therefore other heating sources.
The other thing is these Dermot Bannon type new builds and refurbs get great energy ratings but they have huge open spaces with massive glass walls on multiple sides. In an energy crises you can’t easily revert to zonal heating, like when old people essentially live down stairs or in one room to save on the heating bills.
So overall a very simplistic and miss leading conclusion to publish from all that data!
Better insulated homes in this study average 50% bigger than the others to which they’re compared, and use less than 5% more gas.
Pointless article.
Our house is older and definitely not A rated. It’s also not on the gas network and has oil fired heating.
Suffice it to say when winter comes we light the fire, and burn the oil sparingly.
Research bias!
I’m in a b3 rated house we definitely use more gas. I’ve never turned on our electric emissions. We’ve 3 zones for the heating so I only use gas to heat the water it’s a quarter the price of electricity.
It would be interesting to see energy use per person also. The bigger new houses usually have a family in them.
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>However, the research did find that better insulated homes used less heat per square metre. A- and B-rated homes consumed 89 KWH against 124 KWH for F- and G-rated properties.
Broke people have to pay the iron price, not the gold
Bit of a weird way of wording it, one of the points is that the A and B rated houses tended to be bigger which used more energy to heat in the first place
That’s a strange conclusion for the CSO to report on. A lot of the lower rated houses will have open fires or stoves, or even room specific electric heating, and therefore other heating sources.
The other thing is these Dermot Bannon type new builds and refurbs get great energy ratings but they have huge open spaces with massive glass walls on multiple sides. In an energy crises you can’t easily revert to zonal heating, like when old people essentially live down stairs or in one room to save on the heating bills.
So overall a very simplistic and miss leading conclusion to publish from all that data!
Better insulated homes in this study average 50% bigger than the others to which they’re compared, and use less than 5% more gas.
Pointless article.
Our house is older and definitely not A rated. It’s also not on the gas network and has oil fired heating.
Suffice it to say when winter comes we light the fire, and burn the oil sparingly.
Research bias!
I’m in a b3 rated house we definitely use more gas. I’ve never turned on our electric emissions. We’ve 3 zones for the heating so I only use gas to heat the water it’s a quarter the price of electricity.
It would be interesting to see energy use per person also. The bigger new houses usually have a family in them.