The unfortunate heating solution installed in your private house mercilessly gnaws away at your wallet, especially with the first cold spells. As the years go by, the gap between desires and actual expenses widens.
However, it's a different story with geothermal heating. Some jocular installers claim that warmth comes entirely for free, as the old devil heats the boiler underground around the clock. The reality, however, is somewhat more prosaic— a geothermal heat pump warms your home with energy stored in the ground or bodies of water over the summer by sunlight and rain. If this warmth isn't enough, the device uses electricity to generate the missing part of the heat. So, warmth isn't entirely free, but it's certainly cheaper than with any other heating method.
The working principle of a geothermal heat pump is simple—it extracts heat energy stored in the ground through a buried piping system and transfers it to the heating sources in your home, also heating the domestic hot water. Due to its low operating costs and small ecological footprint, it's worth considering this infinitely renewable energy source already in the earliest stages of house design. Of course, geothermal plans can also be considered later, as replacing an existing heating system with a heat pump is extremely simple.
Cooling in the Summer
Cooling your home with a geothermal heat pump is much cheaper in terms of fixed costs compared to a conventional air conditioner. With the arrival of hot weather, the process can be easily reversed, and then the machine collects heat from the house and transfers it into the ground. This cooling is particularly beneficial when the ground collector is installed at a short distance due to a small plot, as the geothermal heat pump heats up the ground faster in the summer. In return, you get the coolness that comes through the existing cooling or ventilation system.
When the pump dealer mentions SCOP, what does it mean?
Primarily, it refers to the device's efficiency because SCOP is the annual heating coefficient of the heat pump. If the SCOP is 4, it indicates that the device produces 4 kWh of heating energy while consuming 1 kWh of electricity. In the world of heat pumps, such a number is quite common nowadays, but there is one with a heating coefficient of as high as 5.77—the Thermia Diplomat Inverter Mini developed by the Swedes.
The Most Efficient and Quietest Geothermal Heat Pump
The new Diplomat Inverter Mini is specially designed for buildings with low energy consumption (1.5-7 kW), such as those that must be built according to the regulations that will come into effect in 2020. The smart device constantly adjusts its power, minute by minute, hour by hour, and day by day, both in winter and summer. Thanks to this, it never uses more energy than your home currently needs, covering 100% of the heat energy demand without additional costs.
The first such devices started operating in Estonia last fall. They save homeowners money, such as in a wooden house nominated for an award last year in Luige and in a 180-square-meter house completed last fall in Haapsalu, where a flow meter installed on the device allows us to say precisely that it cost 45–60 euros per month to heat the house last winter. And that includes hot water!
The Only Whispering Heat Pump
The new mechanical design makes the Inverter Mini the quietest pump in its sector. The noise level during operation can be as low as 29 dB, comparable to the rustle of leaves.
Web-Controlled
You can monitor and control your heat pump from anywhere in the world with any smartphone, computer, or tablet. With the Thermia Online app, for example, you can raise or lower the room temperature and stay informed about any malfunctions in the device.
The Online module can also track other important information, such as the coldest or warmest outdoor temperature of the year, day, or time, and how much energy came from the ground at that moment. It also shows the current heating water temperature in the house. Such information allows you to configure the geothermal heat pump to be more economical and better meet the customer's needs.
Inverter Mini can also send error messages directly to the maintenance person, so help arrives quickly. The application works on Android and iPhone.