Nothing on the walls. Heat only the rooms you use. Slim white PowerBoard panels on the ceiling warm people and everything in the room directly, instead of heating the air first. Supplied and installed across the UK.
For a typical UK 3-bedroom home, PowerBoard infrared runs at £562–£1,263 per year (~£47–£105/mo) in real-world zoned use - only heating the rooms you're actually in, with panels cycling instead of running flat-out like a radiator. Pair it with solar PV + battery storage and that drops to £57–£758 per year (~£5–£63/mo). Gas runs £800-£1,400, oil £1,200-£2,000, LPG £1,500-£2,500. Costs vary based on insulation, panel sizing, and energy tariff.
Oil & LPG homeowners save most. Fuel costs 40-60% higher than gas means the running cost saving from switching is larger for rural properties.
Pair with solar PV + battery. Infrared panels respond instantly, so a solar PV + battery setup can cover most heating demand directly. Diverter-only setups can't power panels in the evening - battery storage does.
How these figures are calculated: All PowerBoard figures above come from the same formula used by the calculator below - UK 3-bedroom home at 27p/kWh. We keep this rate fixed, set just above Ofgem's price cap when we chose it (26.32p, October 2026). The "all rooms, full demand" line is a like-for-like worst case where every panel runs as if it were a radiator covering the whole property. "Typical zoned use" applies a 55% real-world utilisation factor to reflect how PowerBoard is actually used: only the rooms in active use are heated and panels cycle once at temperature. The "with solar" line assumes a 4kW solar PV system with battery storage. Run the calculator with your own home's details for a personalised figure.
Annual running cost estimates for typical Leeds properties, based on the comparison-table benchmarks above.
Gas / electric figures are UK 3-bed mid-points scaled by property size. PowerBoard figures come from the calculator's own formula: about 5 heating hours a day at 27p/kWh, with panels actually drawing power only ~38% of that time (thermostats cycle panels off once a room is at temperature, and only the rooms in active use are heated), scaled to Leeds's 8-month heating season. The "with solar" column also assumes a 4kW solar PV system with battery storage. Use the calculator above for a personalised figure.
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Climate, housing stock and energy mix all shift the headline figure. Here's how Leeds compares.
Leeds sits in the Aire valley with the Pennines rising sharply to the west, and Met Office data puts winter averages around 4–5°C with sharp cold pockets in higher suburbs like Cookridge and Adel. Annual rainfall close to 1,100mm is concentrated in the autumn and early winter, which keeps the heating season longer than the headline numbers suggest - running effectively from early October to late April for most family homes.
Leeds' LS-postcodes contain one of England's highest concentrations of pre-1919 back-to-back terraced housing, particularly in Harehills, Beeston and Holbeck. The city centre's mill conversions (Holbeck, Granary Wharf) and the new-build student towers around the universities are essentially all-electric. Leeds City Council manages around 54,000 homes and has been steadily upgrading the worst-performing stock - infrared panels are now an approved option in its retrofit framework for properties without gas.
Most Leeds homes are on mains gas, but the city's mill conversions and student-block stock skew heavily electric. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Better Homes Hub is funding heating retrofits with a strong push on insulation-first measures, and infrared panels pair particularly well with that order of works because their performance scales directly with how well the room holds heat.
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