Electric wallpaper trialled as ‘green’ alternative to central heating in Scotland

Glasgow tenements [credit: caingram.com]

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Electric wallpaper ‘is applied to the ceiling and is painted over’. It’s promoted as another way to reduce the supposedly fearsome ‘carbon’ emissions, for example where heat pumps aren’t an option. The makers explain how it works here. Any good? You decide.
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Electric wallpaper is being trialled as a green alternative to central heating in social housing properties in Glasgow, says The National Scot.

Scottish homes are among the oldest and worst insulated in Europe, with about 70,000 tenement flats in Glasgow alone, and heating accounts for more than 36% of total carbon emissions in the UK.

The average [Scottish] home loses heat three times faster than in many European countries.

Now electric wallpaper is being trialled in 12 tenement properties in Glasgow owned and managed by West of Scotland Housing Association, to assess its effectiveness as a “clean” heat source.

Electric wallpaper, which is applied to the ceiling and is painted over, is hoped to become a “viable” replacement for central heating – which began this year, however, data on energy consumption has yet to be collated.
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Funded by Scotland Beyond Net Zero – a coalition of leading climate and sustainability experts from Scotland’s universities – the trial is one of eight new research collaborations aimed at the transition to net zero.

Andrew Kubski, director of development and asset management for West of Scotland Housing Association, said: “We have been trialling this technology for a few months now and have had excellent feedback from our tenants where this has been installed.

“We are delighted to have the opportunity to work with both the University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde to bring a thorough academic lens to the effectiveness of the electric wallpaper.”

Full article here.
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Image: Glasgow tenements [credit: caingram.com]