To heat a standard sized room you would need a 3Kw economy storage heater - this heater would fill itself up with heat overnight using a cheaper tariff of electricity and release the heat at a time to suit you.
Most people want a room to be heated in the evening and want about 4 hours of heat.
This 3Kw heater would use 3 units of cheap electricity per hour at the cheaper tariff of say 8 pence. Let us assume that it takes three hours to be fully charged you use a total of 9 units of electricity at a total cost of 72 pence.
An infrared heating panel of 850 watts (like the one in the picture above) would heat a similar sized room but would use your peak tariff to provide the heating. Let us assume that the panel would need to be on for 5 hours to ensure that the room was up to a nice temperature for your 4 hour session in front of the TV - say, electricity costs 13 pence per unit on your more expensive tariff and so assuming the panel is on full blast (which it won't be) it will cost just 55 pence to provide the same warmth!
That is nearly a 25% saving on your fuel bills!
In reality you would control the temperature in the room with a thermostat and so the panel will not be on full blast for the whole period and so the savings can be considerably more!
How does that sound?
Multiheat are specialists in infrared heating panels!
Note: the cost of electricity is an estimate and it will depend on your own tariffs as to what the actual cost will be and also will depend on how you use the room and the level of temperature that you feel most comfortable with! All these variables will impact on actual savings and the above example is only a guide!
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