What is a bioethanol heater?
Eco-friendly heating
One thing off-grid solutions aren’t great at is running electrical heating. The heaters are energy intensive, they take a substantial chunk from the batteries just to warm up a small room. That’s challenging during winter when you need heating and sunny days are short.
A great carbon neutral solution to this is bioethanol heating.
What is a bioethanol heater?
Bioethanol fuel
Bioethanol fuel is basically alcohol that has been fermented from crops such as hemp, sugarcane, potato, cassava or corn.
The fuel is truely carbon neutral. Carbon dioxide was absorbed when the crops grew and is released again when the fuel is burnt.
What is a bioethanol heater?
How the heaters work
The fuel is burnt in a reservoir to produce an attractive flame and around 2kW of heat. The heat can be varied by moving a slider that shrinks the flame opening.
The flame is enclosed in a metal stove which heats up and becomes a radiator. No chimney is needed as the burn mainly produces carbon dioxide and water. No chimney also means all the heat is kept in the room.
What is a bioethanol heater?
Attractive as well as functional
The bioethanol heaters look like traditional wood burning stoves, providing all the charm of a living flame without the soot, ash or chimney!
You can place them virtually anywhere in a room and, as there's no flue, you can move them around if you fancy a change.
What is the a bioethanol heater?
Warm up the room
Take a look at the Arada Solution 5 series of bioethanol heaters, all made here in the UK.
Additional information
The cost of bioethanol is around £2.50 per litre in the UK, but that's slowly falling as it becomes more popular. A litre produces around 2kW of heat for roughly 2-3 hours depending on fuel quality and room conditions. The flame size can be adjusted to reduce heat output which slows down fuel consumption. Disconnected energy doesn't sell bioethanol as other businesses that specialise in bulk purchasing the fuel can offer you much better prices than we could at the moment.