Electric boilers

Electric residential boilers can be a good or excellent choice for small and sporadic room heating, but never for large uses.

Electric boilers, efficiency and environment

Electric boilers are almost 100% efficient in converting power to heat – a much higher combustion efficiency than that of other boilers, fueled with pellet, oil or gas.

But… electric boilers are far from being carbon neutral. They may not produce pollution, but since the electricity they use is typically of fossil origin, their cleanness is illusory. In that respect, to cut CO2 emissions, think on pellet wood boilers or pellet stoves and inserts. Pellets are made of compressed biomass wood wastes, allowing very low pollution.

Electric boilers: an uneconomical choice

Despite the high efficiency of electric boilers, the high cost of electricity in most countries and regions make electric boilers an obvious very uneconomical solution for central heating and larger uses. The initial investment is really low, but the running costs are very high.

Electric heating: alternatives to electric boilers

If you are interested in electric heating, you may consider a heat-pump system, namely a geothermal solution.