News
“Some have called social media a sad indictment of modern life, but for small businesses it
can be a gold mine” Julie Mclean, Plumb Center, p25
Events
Installer 2015
12-14 May Ricoh Arena, Coventry
http://www.installer2015.com/
NAPIT EXPO On the road
16 Jun Sedgefield Racecourse
18 Jun Burnley FC
23 Jun Birmingham FC
25 Jun Center Parcs, Elveden Forest
30 Jun Chesterfield FC
02 Jul Regency Park Hotel, Berkshire
07 Jul Brands Hatch, Kent
09 Jul Vale Resort, South Wales
14 Jul Newton Abbot Racecourse
Intersolar Europe
10-12 Jun Messe Munich
www.intersolar.de/en/home.html
Heating & Renewables Roadshow
10 Sept 2015 Ricoh Arena, Coventry
15 Sept 2015 Westpoint Arena, Exeter
17 Sept 2015 FIVE, Farnborough
22 Sept 2015 RHC, Edinburgh
24 Sept 2015 Event City, Manchester
Stealing the show
Viessmann was out in force at ISH 2015 by
boasting over 40 new products at the Frankfurt
Messe in March.
The German headquartered heating
manufacturer’s stand accommodated over
200 members of staff to show visitors the
company’s latest renewable innovations.
Dominating the main heating hall,
towering graphics were present to illustrate the
company’s show message ‘Hybrid-Connect-
Power’.
Latest technical advances included
Viessmann’s new Power-to-gas system, which
converts renewably-generated electricity into
hydrogen via electrolysis, and then methane
by adding C02. This can then be exported
to the national grid, as demonstrated by the
fully functional facility at Viessmann’s HQ in
Allendorf.
A new family of hybrid heat pump systems
was also unveiled at ISH, which are ‘smart grid
ready’ to quickly react to changing electricity
prices. Viessmann’s other headline product
was its Vitovalor 300-P fuel cell heating system,
Up in lights: Hybrid-Connect-Power was
Viessmann’s show message at ISH 2015
said to be the first such system manufactured
for the domestic market.
Darren McMahon, Viessmann UK’s
marketing director, said: “Renewable power
storage was at the heart of the Viessmann
stand. The company presented Power-to-gas,
and Power-to-heat: decentralised, short term
storage in buildings that have heat pumps
installed.
“To that end, Viessmann presented a new
range of superior controls and hybrid heating
systems. Both in principle and forthcoming
products, the direction is being set for how
society will increase renewables substitution,
while using existing infrastructure and
technologies more efficiently.”
heatingandrenewablesroadshow.co.uk Specflue sets out wood pellet mission
Solar Energy UK
13-15 October 2015 NEC, Birmingham
http://uk.solarenergyevents.com Specflue has declared its mission to firmly establish a wood pellet heating market in the UK, via its
partnership with MCZ.
Specflue has been distributing biomass and pellet-fuelled stoves and boilers built by the Italian
manufacturers to the UK market since 2011.
Although sales under the partnership have grown substantially in only four years, the UK
market remains small compared to its European counterparts.
Specflue is also keen to extol the virtues of using pellet-fuelled appliances in the UK, as
opposed to other wood burning products.
This is where MCZ’s expertise and knowledge of its native Italian market, where it annually
sells 20,000 units, can be used to great effect, believes
Specflue’s head of sales and marketing Phil Lowe.
“The wood burning market is big in Europe, but still
relatively unestablished in the UK. We hope to jointly pioneer
a change in that. MCZ is a quality brand like Specflue, and
we both share the same ethos – that quality is paramount,
rather than being engaged in price wars.”
He added: “There are a number of reasons we
believe that opting for wood pellets is better than other
Italian job: Specflue has been
wood burning options. Not least that fuel calorific value
distributing wood pellet boilers,
manufactured at MCZ’s 200,000m²
is guaranteed, boilers can be reloaded less frequently and
facility near Venice, since 2011
efficiencies are higher.”
Reading this magazine counts towards
EnergyCPD hours
Renewable Energy Installer takes care to ensure that the information published is accurate and timely. Articles written by contributors for publication
are checked where practicable for accuracy, but are accepted and published in good faith and Renewable Energy Installer cannot be held responsible
for information that subsequently proves not to be accurate.
Advertisers are responsible for the information contained in their adverts, and Renewable Energy Installer does not accept responsibility for inaccurate
or misleading information contained in the adverts.
4 | www.renewableenergyinstaller.co.uk