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The UKs first ever domestic fuel cell microCHP installation - The Viessmann Vitovalor 300-P
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00:00:13.900 today we're installing the first fuel 00:00:16.63000:00:16.640 cell micro CHP unit in the UK it's the 00:00:19.72000:00:19.730 first commercially available unit and 00:00:21.67000:00:21.680 it's a joint development between 00:00:23.22900:00:23.239 Panasonic and Vees Minh it's also being 00:00:26.62000:00:26.630 MCS approved so will benefit from any 00:00:29.23000:00:29.240 subsidies that are available 00:00:30.49000:00:30.500 we think we're average family there's 00:00:33.72900:00:33.739 two kids two young hits going to school 00:00:35.68000:00:35.690 and obviously lovely lovely wife and now 00:00:38.71000:00:38.720 a puppy as well so the house is just a 00:00:41.43900:00:41.449 normal house hundred square meter in 00:00:45.01000:00:45.020 floor space area so I think from the 00:00:48.16000:00:48.170 energy consumption point of view and so 00:00:50.34900:00:50.359 on we are average I like technical 00:00:54.33000:00:54.340 challenges I like technical innovations 00:00:57.04000:00:57.050 and my current system uses a beastmen 00:01:01.09000:01:01.100 boiler with weather comm system and I 00:01:03.43000:01:03.440 was keen to go the next step forward 00:01:06.66000:01:06.670 generating my own electricity and and 00:01:10.54000:01:10.550 yeah in one point I'm doing it because 00:01:12.94000:01:12.950 I'm fed up with the high electricity 00:01:15.34000:01:15.350 boots I'm paying around about six 00:01:17.68000:01:17.690 hundred pounds a year on electricity the 00:01:20.19900:01:20.209 costs are going up and up and up it will 00:01:22.38900:01:22.399 not go down it takes proven technology 00:01:25.21000:01:25.220 of the Panasonic fuel cell in 00:01:28.29000:01:28.300 combination with the experience of the 00:01:32.62000:01:32.630 heating and controls technology from 00:01:34.74900:01:34.759 basement and puts it into one unit it is 00:01:38.22900:01:38.239 relatively simple to install in that the 00:01:41.05000:01:41.060 connections that you would expect for a 00:01:42.55000:01:42.560 gas boiler are the same for the fuel 00:01:45.82000:01:45.830 cell unit you need a gas supply you know 00:01:49.05900:01:49.069 the power supply it has hot and cold 00:01:51.30900:01:51.319 water feeds and you need a flu so the 00:01:54.46000:01:54.470 installation takes around two two and a 00:01:56.22900:01:56.239 half days as a fuel cell it's an 00:01:58.47900:01:58.489 electrochemical process so it doesn't 00:02:00.30900:02:00.319 burn fossil fuels it converts natural 00:02:03.63900:02:03.649 gas into hydrogen and using that process 00:02:06.82000:02:06.830 creates both heat and power that 00:02:10.44900:02:10.459 operates for the majority of the day 00:02:12.93000:02:12.940 creating the heat for the home in 00:02:15.01000:02:15.020 heating water and domestic hot water and 00:02:17.80000:02:17.810 also the 00:02:19.57000:02:19.580 that you would use throughout the house 00:02:21.55000:02:21.560 electrical production from that is 00:02:23.65000:02:23.660 around four and a half thousand kilowatt 00:02:25.45000:02:25.460 hours per year which is typical for a UK 00:02:29.11000:02:29.120 home to get the same equivalent 00:02:31.06000:02:31.070 electricity from solar photovoltaics as 00:02:33.64000:02:33.650 from the fuel cell we would need 00:02:35.98000:02:35.990 approximately thirty square meters which 00:02:38.29000:02:38.300 is equivalent to the whole roof from a 00:02:40.72000:02:40.730 fairly well sized property the backup 00:02:42.82000:02:42.830 boiler is there because they were around 00:02:44.65000:02:44.660 thirty days in the year which are the 00:02:46.36000:02:46.370 coldest days of the year and for those 00:02:47.95000:02:47.960 we need peak demand we need the boiler 00:02:50.98000:02:50.990 to produce as much heat as possible if 00:02:52.78000:02:52.790 we are going to reduce our carbon 00:02:54.13000:02:54.140 emissions and make ourselves more energy 00:02:57.07000:02:57.080 efficient then we will need to find 00:02:58.69000:02:58.700 solutions for gas 00:02:59.77000:02:59.780 this unit will save homeowners around 00:03:02.32000:03:02.330 36% on their energy utility costs and as 00:03:06.64000:03:06.650 well as that the electricity that you're 00:03:08.23000:03:08.240 producing on-site is around twice as 00:03:10.96000:03:10.970 efficient as relying on a centralized 00:03:12.58000:03:12.590 power station this system will give me 00:03:14.62000:03:14.630 the opportunity to generate as much as 00:03:16.72000:03:16.730 electricity a year as I use the other 00:03:20.20000:03:20.210 thing is obviously I want to do 00:03:21.97000:03:21.980 something for the environment of course 00:03:23.68000:03:23.690 some of the electricity will be the 00:03:25.36000:03:25.370 exported into the great fun times when I 00:03:27.91000:03:27.920 don't use the electricity as much so the 00:03:30.16000:03:30.170 future produces more than when I need of 00:03:33.37000:03:33.380 all throughout the year it balances 00:03:35.97900:03:35.989 itself out so it's even the benefits for 00:03:41.08000:03:41.090 me there are some feed-in tariffs I can 00:03:44.47000:03:44.480 tap into it so utilities are providing 00:03:47.32000:03:47.330 me with a feed-in tariff for every 00:03:49.84000:03:49.850 kilowatt hour produced electricity of 00:03:51.91000:03:51.920 round about 15 pence per kilowatt hour I 00:03:54.10000:03:54.110 get from utilities which is very very 00:03:56.68000:03:56.690 good so from that point of view I'm 00:03:58.84000:03:58.850 expecting and and you're saving of 00:04:00.58000:04:00.590 fir'aun's six seven hundred pounds 00:04:06.27000:04:06.280 you
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