Chalmor’s Controls for Storage Water Heaters can Save YOU Energy!

Often found in school staff rooms and workplace kitchens, ‘Tea Boilers’ or Storage Water Heaters, are wall-mounted containers that keep water continuously hot to ensure it is always ready to use. They are extremely convenient products however can use up huge amounts of energy if they are left on all the time. To save energy and money on these tea boilers, it is encouraged that you increase your control over the product. Here at Chalmor, we can help, with our Tea Boiler control ‘Move Master.’Chalmor can provide energy saving controls for storage water heaters
Move Master is a retrofit product which we can install which schedules your water heater to come on and turn off on a needs basis, dramatically reducing the amount of energy used. Currently, we have undertaken a few projects using the Move Master, and the results have been extremely positive.

We carried out a monitoring exercise, and the data obtained from the logger installed at a trial site can be seen in the information below… the table summarises the consumption in kWH for each week:

SAMPLE PERIOD

Fri

Sat

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Total

Manual Week

3.350

2.773

2.145

4.750

4.077

5.135

3.734

25.964

Automatic Week

1.767

0.000

0.000

3.355

2.444

2.983

4.271

14.820

Saving

1.583

2.773

2.145

1.395

1.633

2.152

-0.537

11.144

Clearly, the table shows that the Move Master tea boiler controls are maximising savings on any days where the office is not used.

In one of our past projects, the Move Master control automatically achieved high savings by switching on water heaters in the morning only, as and when the office was occupied. If staff members were going start later in the day, the water heater would switch on accordingly. This not only produced high levels of energy saving, but it also saved our client money.

It must be noted that not every tea boiler project that we carry out will produce the same savings, as they are dependent on a number of different variables. To find out how we can help you make savings on your tea boiler/storage water heater, email us at marketing@chalmor.co.uk, or call us on 01582 784700.

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