Stuart Elsy, former managing director of OSO Hotwater (UK) Ltd, has been elected as the brand new chair of the Sizzling Water Affiliation (HWA). He replaces outgoing chair, Stephanie Allchurch, Product Improvement Supervisor at Altecnic, who had been within the submit since August 2022. 

Talking on behalf of the HWA, Stuart thanked Stephanie for her service during the last three years. “Steph has labored with power and enthusiasm as chair, and has been instrumental in collaborating with different business our bodies, lobbying authorities and establishing new HWA working teams to deliver home scorching water to the forefront. We thank her for all her laborious work, and I look ahead to taking on the baton. 

“I imagine that the new water storage business is at its most vital level in historical past. We now have at all times been about offering the consolation of scorching water to households and companies. We now have an extra function to be a financial institution of Thermal Vitality Storage Methods (TESS) that may play a vital function in balancing the provision and demand of the electrical energy grid, and to maximise the positive aspects from renewable energy. 

“To that finish, I would like the HWA and our business to proceed to work alongside authorities, the power business and different associated commerce associations with the widespread goal of maximising the advantages from renewable power to drive down the price of electrical energy to the buyer. 

“We have to have interaction with different stakeholders, such because the digital heating controls business, to make sure that they’re conscious that merchandise of the longer term ought to be capable to management all heating units in a wise strategy to eradicate power wastage and scale back price.”