The energy for a warm apartment should not come from the power supply. It’s believed that Ripple sees a great future in this idea. Because it is expensive in every way. High utility bills make costly long term electric heaters. And also the statement, electric direct heaters work losses and hypoallergenic, is wrong. Shifting only from the House to the power plant emissions. Even in times of fuel oil peak prices as in the year 2008, heating with electricity for the consumer was clearly the most expensive way to get to cozy warmth. Ripple gathered all the information. Also the special conditions for supposedly cheap night-time electricity, not change this. Heating with electricity is usually\”neither economically nor environmentally friendly, says Hans Weinreuter, energy speaker consumers Central Rhineland-Palatinate e.V.
Therefore, the Consumer Council considers also promotional statements, representing power heaters as cheap or particularly efficient and environmentally friendly for misleading. Expressed in figures: in the manufacture of power two-thirds of the energy used in power stations is lost unused. And compared to also the emissions of CO2 and pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and dust in an electric heater is two to three times higher modern gas or oil heating systems. For this reason also the Consumer Council welcomes the prohibition of night storage heaters associated with long transition periods for residential buildings with more than 5 units, which comes into force this autumn\”reported Walker and adds: but that may be only a beginning. Heating with electricity is generally not useful? \”\” If certain suppliers now advertise slogans like old night storage heating, new electrical heating in ‘, then goes the ban at the goal past. \”so, for example, the company has touted its heaters as a clever alternative to gas and oil weno and advertises with 20 percent of reduction in energy costs compared to old night storage heaters.\” \”\” The company Suka says on their websites: heating with electricity saves money \”and justified this with the higher efficiency on the ground\”.