When a company buys a building, it inherits the utility room along with it. In the case of a production and office building in Celje, that utility room brought more worry than benefit. The heat pump already installed could no longer cover the building’s demand, and indoor temperatures were too low for normal work. The answer the owners found for the winter under way was a stopgap: electric radiators.
For a few days, that would hold. For a whole heating season, it is the most expensive way to heat there is, because an electric radiator turns every kilowatt hour of electricity into exactly one kilowatt hour of heat, with no ambient energy used at all. On top of the cost, uncertainty was building up: nobody knew whether the old system would last another winter.
The decision was therefore clear. Instead of trying to rescue the old heat pump with partial repairs, they removed it and designed the utility room from scratch, around the commercial air/water heat pump KRONOTERM ADAPT MAX.
