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GBE Appliance Energy Checklist G#41788

Mixergy Domestic Hot Water Internet of Things Cylinder with PV energy input

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4 Resourceful:

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  • Reduce:
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7 End of Life Options:

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Appliance Energy

Utilities

Power and energy supply

  • On site renewable energy is best for low carbon emissions
  • On site battery storage may be a sensible addition but consider a fire-resistant enclosure
  • Electric vehicles battery can be used as a battery back-up for uninterrupted power supply in event of a mains brown out
  • Mains delivered green tariff is good but suffers from distribution losses
  • Mains electricity is next for carbon emissions, since mix of renewables is increasing all time
  • Gas is now worse than electricity for carbon emissions

Voltage Optimisation

  • Takes out peaks and troughs from mains electricity due to variable inputs from many providers
  • Reduces amount you get
  • more than you can ever use
  • reduce amount you pay

Internet of Things special tariffs

  • IoT-ready appliances e.g. boilers and hot water cylinders, can monitor cost of electricity hour by hour and only draw power from mains when price is low or free or when they pay you
  • Some service providers prearrange with users that they cannot turn on high demand appliance
  • g. kettles during peak demands from mains, but users get cheap electricity at all other low demand times

Metering & Monitoring

  • Fix your smart meters in kitchen on show at eye level, visible all time so they don’t get ignored
  • Monitor usage and become familiar with energy demand of each appliance and minimise consumption
  • With fridge and freezers achieving zero demand will be impossible
  • Don’t over-fill kettles unnecessarily
  • Put lids on pans to use less energy to get to higher temperatures
  • Meters with attitude will stop bad behaviour:
  • ‘faster faster faster’,
  • ‘dialling in 250 to get to 180 quicker does not work’
  • ‘meters that tell you to wait until it achieves first instruction then it will reconsider any conflicting instructions’

Whitegoods

  • UK households use £1.2 bn (even before recent price hikes) on electricity for fridges and freezers alone
  • Specify and choose most efficient appliances: Efficiency: Grade A++ or better in all cases
  • Significant energy savings over life of appliance and of building can be achieved

Water Taps

  • Taps offer opportunities for reducing water, energy and carbon demand
  • Proximity detection taps will only operate when hands are present, so less risk of taps being left running flooding house
  • Because there are no tap handles to turn on, soap or germ residues on taps, do not occur and do not need cleaning so frequently or extensively
  • Aerated taps or valves use considerably less water whilst not appearing to do so
  • Two stage taps can offer low flow in first position and high flow in second position

Water Valves

  • Water reducing valves can be fitted to all appliances to reduce high mains pressure to an appropriate flow, so when a tap is open full bore water is sufficient to rinse hands rather than fill a bath
  • Water reducing/isolating valves can be fitted to all appliances to reduce waste when pipe systems would otherwise need to be drained for maintenance

Insulating hot water and heating pipes

  • Wherever pipes run in voids, in back of kitchen units or above floor finishes they should be insulated and boxed in by skirtings or dado panels

Extractor fans

  • Moisture vapour and heat from kitchen can find its way out from kitchen towards outdoor air via walls floors or roofs and put their components to test and potentially cause interstitial or surface condensation leading to mould and potential structural failure
  • Moisture vapour, evaporated cooking fat, food smells or smoke from all cooking processes can be passive removing via windows, doors, or actively with mechanical extract hoods via pipes to open external air
  • A recent introduction is an extractor within a kitchen base unit or island unit within proximity of hot plates or gas rings, it sucks gasses away into base unit and ducts it away to outside air via wall or floor
  • See Also: U10 GBE Checklist

Renewable-Energy-Ready Design

  • With recent developments in renewable energy (RE)
  • particularly tumbling Photovoltaic (PV) solar panel costs
  • electric vehicles (EV) and battery storage
    • we need to think a bit harder about what we choose and how we use RE
    • Future proofing your energy bills
    • Understanding your demands
    • Reduce demand
    • Heating: Insulation, Airtightness, Thermal breaks
    • Hot water: Shower heat recovery,
    • Internet of Things
      • Monitors cost of electricity and only consumes when cheap, free or be paid
      • Domestic Hot Water
        • Mixergy
      • Domestic heating
        • “Boiler”
      • Thermal storage ‘heat battery’
        • Sunamp
      • Increase efficiency: Monitor, metering and controls
      • Mains power price fluctuations exploitation to get cheap off peak
        • For heat and hot water
        • Reduce Carbon in supply
        • Warning if PV supply is not working
        • Use maximum RE before topping up from mains
        • not switching to mains
      • Use RE renewable energy yourself
        • avoid using Gas Oil LPG Coal
        • Low voltage circuits to low voltage kit
      • Get occupants engaged in behaviour change

Solar orientation and solar access

  • Of house, windows, roofs, panels
  • Feeding power from roof to mains entry point

Matching energy demand to RE supply

  • Orientating panels not just to south and 30 degrees above horizontal
  • Introducing batteries to smooth out differences
  • Optimising battery installation
  • Direct use from PV without transformers wasting energy
  • DC low voltage circuit for DC Low voltage kit

BIPV v Alternative

  • Arrangement
  • Building Integrated PV
  • Verses
    • above slope ventilated PV
    • PVT with thermal heat use
    • Risks of
    • Under performing PV
    • overheating of attic, upper floor or whole house
  • Battery storage
  • EV on drive
    • optimise PV to be charged by Solar PV only not from mains
  • Battery storage in garage
  • UPS Uninterrupted power supply for fridge/freezer in brown out

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20 RIBA Stages

  • 0 Strategic Definition
  • 1 Preparation & Brief
  • 2 Concept Design
  • 3 Developed Design
  • 4 Technical Design
  • 5 Construction
  • 6 Hand over and Close out
  • 7 In use
  • 8 Repurpose
  • 9 Reclaim and Reuse

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24 Sustainable Development Goals

  • The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
  • The 17 SDGs are integrated—they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.
  • Countries have committed to prioritize progress for those who’re furthest behind. The SDGs are designed to end poverty, hunger, AIDS, and discrimination against women and girls.
  • The creativity, knowhow, technology and financial resources from all of society is necessary to achieve the SDGs in every context.

SDG 1 No Poverty

SDG 2 Zero Hunger

SDG 3 Good Health And Well-Being

  • See SDG 15

SDG 4 Quality Education

SDG 5 Gender Equality

SDG 6 Clean Water And Sanitation

  • See SDG 14

SDG 7 Affordable And Clean Energy

SDG 8 Decent Work And Economic Growth

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities And Communities

  • See SDG10 above

SDG 12 Responsible Consumption And Production

SDG 13 Climate Action

SDG 14 Life Below Water

  • See SDG 6

SDG 15 Life On Land

  • See SDG 3

SDG 16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

SDG 17 Partnerships For The Goals

25 Value for Money

Violet Prices

Green Prices

Cost planning

Elemental rates

Trade rates

Cost cutting

Value Engineering

Multi functional

Performance Gap

Pay back periods

Carbon back periods

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3rd May 2024

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Mixergy Domestic Hot Water Internet of Things Cylinder with PV energy input

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