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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle's 9-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 Newcastle compares.
Newcastle's exposed North East position means it gets the full benefit of any easterly wind off the North Sea - January averages of around 1°C are routinely a degree colder in wind-exposed Tyneside flats in Heaton and Walker than the headline number suggests. The heating season runs from early October through late April, and persistent salt-laden air shortens the working life of external metalwork, including condenser-boiler housings.
The dominant Newcastle property type is the Tyneside flat - a pair of single-storey flats stacked into one Edwardian terrace, with the upper flat reached by its own front door and shared back yard. They're particularly common in Heaton, Jesmond and Sandyford, and they create a specific heating problem: routing new gas pipework from the upstairs flat through the downstairs neighbour's ceiling is rarely practical, and shared flues are not allowed under current building regs.
The North of Tyne Combined Authority estimates around 11% of households are in fuel poverty - meaningfully above the English average - and Northumbria Energy Services Limited (NESL) operates a small district-heating network in the city centre. Outside that footprint, gas is dominant on the ground floor and electric storage on the upper Tyneside flats.
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