Renewables and Sustainability
Running your Everhot from Renewable Energy
Everhot cookers offer supreme energy efficiency and many of our owners are now choosing to power their cooker and their homes with renewable energy sources, both to help financially and environmentally.
If you already have solar panels, or are thinking of installing them, we are the range cooker brand to choose. An Everhot cooker requires a trickle feed supply which closely matches how solar power is generated. With our ‘Follow the Sun’ mode your Everhot can ‘wake up’ as the sun rises and go into ‘sleep’ ECO mode as the sun sets, Eco timings will automatically adjust to match sunrise and sunset throughout the year. Most of our range cookers draw a maximum of 3kW, and an average of 600W, which means they won’t exhaust a solar system’s capabilities.
TV presenter and property developer, Sarah Beeny has been featured on Channel 4 welcoming an Everhot cooker into her home. Sarah has been rebuilding a semi derelict former farmhouse, fitting it with solar panels. She said, “It really suited us to have a warm kitchen with a single source of constant heat, that is why we chose the Everhot. All the electricity is created from solar panels and stored in a power wall battery. Without the Everhot in the kitchen, the whole plan would have been flawed.”
The Everhot was originally designed five decades ago for a mill owner who generated his own power and wanted a cooker that used a small, steady flow of power that matched his generation. We still supply to watermills but more commonly those characteristics are now sought out by those who generate, or are planning to generate, electricity from solar panels or even wind turbines. With our focus turning towards renewable ways of generating power, combining an Everhot with solar panels is an economical and environmentally friendly decision.
We are happy to answer any questions you have about how your existing Everhot, or the one you are hoping to buy, can work together with solar panels.
A number of Everhot owners have kindly provided case studies detailing the installation and use of their solar panels. Each of the case studies detailed below shows how an Everhot integrates into the household energy use, and the overall energy mix of consumption from the grid and solar panel production. An Everhot’s flexibility and versatility means that everyone can tailor their cooker to meet their needs and therefore the power consumed by the Everhot will differ from household to household. This may not correspond with our published consumption figures which are based on an Everhot being left on at temperature 24/7 and dropping into ECO mode overnight. In fact, you will notice that often the cooker is consuming less power over the course of the year than we state in our literature. This is due to owners not utilising all of their cooking zones over the warmer months.We have a unit price of 28p pkWh for our electricity cost calculations.
Solar panels work seamlessly in the background with your normal electricity supply and require no further expertise from the user. Excess energy will be automatically exported to the grid but it’s far more beneficial to use it all yourself and any excess can be stored in batteries, if you have them, to run your house overnight.
Solar panels can be an expensive investment but typically provide a return in excess of 10%. With the current increasing electricity prices, the return can exceed 25%. The Government’s Feed in Tariff scheme no longer exists for new solar panel purchasers, but the Smart Export Guarantee does.
Case Studies
A number of Everhot owners have kindly provided case studies detailing the installation and use of their solar panels. Each of the case studies detailed below shows how an Everhot integrates into their household energy use, and the overall energy mix of consumption from the grid and solar panel production. An Everhot’s flexibility and versatility means that everyone can tailor their cooker to meet their needs and therefore the power consumed by the Everhot will differ from household to household. This may not correspond with our published consumption figures which are based on an Everhot being left on at temperature 24/7 and dropping into ECO mode overnight. In fact, you will notice that often the cooker is consuming less power over the course of the year than we state in our literature. This is due to owners not utilising all of their cooking zones over the warmer months.
Case Study: Dr & Mrs King
Solar Panels: 24x 300W Panels & 9kWh Battery
Property Type: Detached House
Cooker Model: Everhot 90i
Case Study: Mr and Mrs Whiston
Solar Panels: 32 Panels with Battery
Property Type: Coastal Property
Cooker Model: Everhot 110+
Case Study: Mr and Mrs Stevens
Solar Panels: 12kW with a 15kW battery
Property Type: 5 Bedroom House
Cooker Model: Everhot 110i and Stove
Case Study: Mr and Mrs Spalding
Solar Panels: 7.5kW array
Property Type: Four Bedroom House
Cooker Model: Everhot 100i
Case Study: Mr and Mrs Kirrage
Solar Panels: 4kW, no battery
Property Type: Four Bedroom House
Cooker Model: Everhot 150i
Case Study: Mr and Mrs Gee
Solar Panels: 13kW array
Property Type: 5 Bedroom House
Cooker Model: Everhot 150i and Stove
Case Study: Anna Kastanias Kirton
Solar Panels: 8 Panels, 4.8kW array
Property Type: Two Bedroom Cottage
Cooker Model: Everhot 110i
Case Study: Jill Lemon
Solar Panels: 12 panels 4.7kW
Property Type: 5 Bedroom House
Cooker Model: Everhot 60
Case Study: Mr & Mrs Noble
Solar Panels: 12 panels 4.7kW array
Property Type: 3 Bedroom Cottage
Cooker Model: Everhot 90i
Case Study: Mr & Mrs Moseley
Solar Panels: 12 Panels 4kW
Property Type: Detached House
Cooker Model: Everhot 120i
