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Infrared heating: The future of energy efficient electric heating
Commercial and domestic properties are increasingly switching from older fossil fuel-dependent heating systems, to infrared heating. If you have convection, storage, or underfloor heating, or even patio heaters, then infrared heating could help you reduce your heating bills. Infrared heating is the future of energy efficient electric heating. It is a sustainable, fully controllable and stylish way to heat your home or business. Infrared heating is swiftly growing in popularity for many reason, learn more below.

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Some of the Main Benefits of Infrared Heating by Gaia Smart energy Include

Health Benefits

Learn about the health benefits of heating your room with Infrared Heating.

Design

Choosing Infrared heating as your heating of choice gives you freedom to install one panel, or an entire system. You can choose from a plethora of materials, sizes and aesthetic designs.

Comfort

Infrared heating is designed for quick and even heating. Comfort to heat your room how you want it.

Ease of use

At Gaia we work with Smart heating control systems that are low maintenance and easy to use.

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Adding Genius Hub smart controls to your Jigsaw infrared heaters

Adding Genius Hub’s smart heating controls to your infrared heater gives you even more control over your energy costs. Each heater is controlled individually with its own smart thermostat, allowing you full control over how you heat your individual rooms.
Download the app to your devices and control each room independently from anywhere in the world. Enjoy the many user-friendly, smart features of the latest energy-saving technolog.
  • Set rooms to different temperatures
  • As required, at the touch of a button
  • Use the smart occupancy detection feature to set a room to heat when someone enters
  • Set a heating scheduleList Item
  • Boost a room
  • Allow manual thermostat control

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Unlike traditional convection heating which causes significant energy wastage and additional running costs, infrared converts all electricity into heat, resulting in a more cost effective system.

  • Jigsaw’s energy-efficient infrared heaters are proven to be at least 30% more efficientthan convection heating. This means that you can enjoy a consistent, comfortable warmth throughout your home or business in a more cost-effective way.
  • Further savings can be gained by adding smart heating controls and/or by incorporating green energy production such as solar panels.
  • Infrared heating also reduces heating costs considerably, because it creates the benefit of zoned heating 
  • Infrared heating gives you control to only heat up the areas in your home or business that you wish to be heated. You will no longer need to preheat a room, because infrared heat works instantly.
  • Traditional convection heating causes energy wastage and additional running costs, infrared converts all electricity into heat

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What is meant by 'traditional convection heating'?

  • The term “convection heating” refers to a type of heater that uses convection currents to heat and circulate air within a room.
  • Several types of radiators and heaters fall under the heading of “traditional convection heating”: standard ‘wet’ radiators (heated by oil or gas), electric storage heaters, electric fan heaters, oil-filled electric heaters, etc.
  • The primary difference between convection and infrared heaters is the way in which they transfer heat

Traditional convection heater

  • Warms the surrounding air, rather than objects and people in the room.
  • The spread of heat is uneven and slow. Heat rises to the ceiling where it is not needed, and easily escapes through draughts. The air can feel stuffy.
  • Less energy efficient, because a convection heater needs to heat large volumes of air.
  • Less environmentally friendly.
  • More expensive. At least a third more energy is required to heat a room using convection heating.
  • Can cause, prolong and aggravate various health issues (allergies, respiratory issues, circulation). These problems arise because convection heaters heat the air rather than the objects. This circulates dust particles around a room, and creates condensation and mould when warm air is moved towards cold surfaces such as windows.

Infrared heater

We reccomend infrared every tme.
  • Warms the objects and people in the room directly, rather than the surrounding air.
  • The spread of heat is even and almost instant. The radiant heat waves transfer directly to objects and people in the room and are instantly absorbed by them. The feeling is similar to stepping into sunshine.
  • More energy efficient, because it converts all of the electricity it uses into heat.
  • Better for the environment– carbon neutral; almost zero energy wastage. A great partner for additional green measures such as solar panels. [For further information, see the section on ‘Low Carbon Heating’.]
  • More cost effective. As infrared heaters can heat the objects rather than the air, they do not waste energy in the way that convection heaters do.
  • Has multiple health benefits and can tackle the many health issues impacted by convection heating. This is because infrared heaters heat the objects in a room rather than the surrounding air. [For further information, see the section on health benefits.]
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Infrared can be incorporated with green energy production

The decarbonisation of heating is an essential step in the  response to climate change.
If we are to meet our carbon reduction targets, the way we live must change. A crucial step in this change is the phasing out of gas and oil boilers in our homes and businesses, in favour of low carbon heating solutions.

Fossil fuels (gas and oil) are not long term options, and so we must make a permanent change towards sustainable heating options.

Simply put, the more steps you take to limit heat loss in your home or business, the less energy you will use to heat it.

Electric heating is carbon neutral when powered by renewable electricity

Although it is not a renewable energy in itself, infrared heating can be incorporated with green energy production such as that from solar panels, to produce an even more carbon efficient approach to heating a particular space.
Although it is not a renewable energy in itself, infrared heating can be incorporated with green energy production such as that from solar panels, to produce an even more carbon efficient approach to heating a particular space.

Combining infrared heaters with solar PV battery storage.

Battery storage is a rapidly evolving technology, and is typically used alongside solar photovoltaic panels (PV). Surplus electricity generated by your solar panels can be stored for later use (e.g. at night and when it is raining), rather than being exported to the National Grid. This means that your infrared heaters can be entirely heated by your solar-generated electricity, reducing both your running costs and the environmental impact. You can be entirely independent from the grid.
By charging your batteries during off peak times (typically 12am to 7am) you can avail of cheaper electricity, and then use the stored energy to heat your house and power your appliances.

What makes infrared a more sustainable option than some other heating systems?

Air or Ground Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs and GSHPs) are an impractical option for many people for a number of reasons, including the high cost of install, ongoing maintenance, and the noise and space requirements. ASHPs may also struggle to provide sufficient heat on particularly cold days in winter. And because ASHPs are central units, they suffer similar drawbacks to boiler-based central heating, as they do not allow for effective zoned heating.
Traditional convection heaters must heat the air in a room, while infrared heaters heat the objects and people in the room directly. This important difference results in a significant contrast in the amount of energy used by the two heating systems. For instance, air– which convection heating relies on– is not a good insulator. A lot of energy is therefore needed by convection heaters to constantly reheat the air in the room, because once the room becomes cold, our bodies will lose heat also. This is why convection heating results in energy wastage, compared to infrared heating.
With traditional heaters, 30-35% of the heat is lost through the roof, and 18-25% through the wall. By contrast, infrared heating will not pass through building material because the infrared wavelengths are too opaque.
Infrared panels are electric, and convert all the electricity they use into heat, leading to low energy usage. This means they are more energy efficient, and create a smaller carbon footprint, than traditional convection heating.
Another reason infrared heaters are energy efficient is that very little energy is required to heat the surface of a panel. Once the room is warm, the infrared heater only needs to maintain the surface temperature, rather than having to heat all of the air in the room as a traditional heater must do.
Infrared heaters do not emit any harmful chemicals like carbon monoxide into a room. Essentially, they do not add anything to the environment, and don’t take anything from it either.

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