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Greenstar Xtra
Worcester Bosch Group
Solar-plus-storage package
Moixa
Moixa, the UK’s leading home battery
company, has announced a new £4,995
combined solar-plus-storage package, which
will allow customers to benefit from the smart
power revolution.
The package, targeted at homeowners,
housing associations and other landlords,
bundles a 2KWh Moixa Smart Battery with a
2kW, eight-panel solar photovoltaic system
for an installed price of £4,995 including VAT.
Speaking at the Clean Energy Live
exhibition in Birmingham in October, Chris
Wright, Moixa Chief Technology Officer,
said: “We believe our solar-plus-storage
deal is a market-leading offer. It will protect
customers from rising electricity prices
and allow them to benefit from the smart
power revolution, accessing smart tariffs
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and making money by supporting the
development of a reliable, cost-effective,
low-carbon electricity system. We also
hope it will provide a boost to the solar
installation market, which has been hit by
cuts to Feed-in Tariffs.”
Customers will typically benefit by
around £350 a year in electricity savings
from their solar panels and battery and
from Feed-in Tariff payments. They will also
receive £50 annual payments for making
their battery capacity available through
Moixa’s innovative GridShare aggregation
platform to provide services that make the
electricity grid more efficient, greener and
cheaper to run, such as balancing demand
and reducing the need for back-up power
from coal, oil and gas.
Worcester, Bosch Group has launched a
brand new boiler flue gas heat recovery unit,
designed to help housebuilders and public
sector providers achieve the best possible hot
water efficiency levels.
The Greenstar Xtra unit connects directly
to the flue of the boiler and uses a highly
efficient plate heat exchanger to extract
residual energy from waste gases. This energy
is then used to pre-warm the incoming mains
water that feeds the combi boiler – reducing
the overall amount of gas required to heat the
water to the required temperature.
Developed to help properties achieve
highest possible SAP ratings, the unit limits gas
consumption and CO2 emissions.
The compact design of the Greenstar Xtra
ensures ease of siting and the flue options of
60/100mm and 100/125mm diameters result in
flexible installation. Unlike other heat recovery
systems, the unit does not require a blending
valve or an additional mounting plate meaning
that the time taken to fit the device, and the
associated labour costs, are kept to a minimum.