I was contemplating a project for a long time in the future, and stumbled upon an idea...
Our boiler MAN (ecohometec) can use pre-heated water to reduce/eliminate required heat boiler input into DHW. Logical use of this is a Solar heated water bank thing before the boiler. That's the easy bit. Next idea was on Wind power. Our home is in an ideal location to catch the SWesterly winds blowing up the Bristol channel see S.W. picture here:
Electricity being switched by tank thermostat and divered into ring main as per usual method.
Can anyone see a possible flaw in my plan? Currently we wouldn't be go the solar route as we only have East/West sloping roof but that can be sorted with a future flat roof replacement over the garage.
As it is, it's a "hmmmmm....." plan with much smaller things to be sorted first, I thought I needed to get some thought on the idea before I waste more time on theoretical pipe runs and Mast locations etc. :¬)
Cheers Pete