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Prejudices about heating

Heating with light: Now PV is also forcing its way on to the heating market, causing a stir in the solar thermal energy sector. But a fundamental debate such as this cannot resolve which solution will be the best for customers. These are the most common arguments.

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pv magazine

27 May 2014

Electricity is far too good to use as fuel. This assertion goes back to the 1970s and is not relevant nowadays. When energy costs exploded following the oil crisis of 1973, the off-peak storage heaters that had been so popular until then suddenly gained a bad reputation and at the same time so did heating …

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