[Greenbuilding] Nyle heat pump water heater update

[gennaro brooks-church]

Paul you sent that long email from a phone?? Wow

Gennaro Brooks-Church
EcoBrooklyn.com
347-244-3016
22 2nd St., Brooklyn.
This email was sent from my phone.

On May 23, 2013, at 6:46 PM, Paul Eldridge <paul.eldridge at ns.sympatico.ca>
wrote:

It has been two hundred and twenty days since we installed our Nyle heat
pump water heater, and I thought I'd provide list members with a quick
update. The little guy has supplied all of the DHW needs for our two person
household  and, with that, consumed 412.3 kWh or an average of 1.87
kWh/day. That's down from an average of 3.96 kWh/day for this same period
last year when we heated with electric resistance.

We're relatively frugal in our hot water use, so the simple payback for us
will be a little longer than most households, i.e., about ten years at
current utility rates. Even so, I'm extremely pleased with its performance.
We're now approaching that time of the year when we run our dehumidifier
virtually non-stop to keep humidity levels in check, so to the extent that
this HPWH reduces our dehumidifier run time, it will supply us with all
the"free" hot water that we can possibly use.

BTW, according to the City of Halifax's Solar City website, the typical
installed cost for a solar DHW system in these parts runs between $6,400.00
and $8,000.00 after all applicable rebates (source:
www.halifax.ca/solarcity/). And in speaking with one of their
representatives, I'm told that I could expect such a system to offset
perhaps one-half our annual needs. The Nyle, as mentioned, satisfies 100
per cent of our requirements at an installed cost of just $1,100.00.
Moreover, it would likely consume less electricity through the course of
the year than what might be required to operate the circulation pump,
control system and back-up electric element of a residential solar system,
had we chosen to go this alternate route.  This is not meant to be knock
against solar; rather, it's  to point out that there are other options that
are equally worthy of consideration.

Cheers,
Paul



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