The heat gets distributed
Without a water jacket the living room overheats while the rest of the house stays cold. With one, the surplus goes where it is needed.
All energy measures
Heating and hot water
Water-jacketed stove
An ordinary wood stove heats the room it stands in. A stove with a water jacket sends part of the heat into the waterborne system, so the rest of the home benefits from it.
See what this means for your homeThis measure is relevant if
- The home has waterborne heating
- You have access to firewood and burn it anyway
- You want heat even when the power is out
- There is room for a buffer tank
What it does to energy use
A buffer tank is not optional
A stove delivers a lot of heat in short bursts. With nowhere to store it, the heat has to be used at once and most of it is lost.
Independent of the grid
Wood burns without electricity. Where the supply is unreliable that is a resilience value the energy accounts do not show.
Clean burning and local rules
New stoves are clean-burning and emit considerably fewer particulates than old ones. Some municipalities have their own rules on wood burning — check before installing.
Sequence matters
The stove comes after the waterborne system and after the tank — without them the water jacket has no function. It is also a supplement rather than a main source: it needs someone to load it, and cannot cover the heat demand on its own.
Enova funding
Water-jacketed stoves are among the measures Enova funds.
Rates and terms change. What you can receive depends on the building, how the work is carried out and which schemes apply at the time. Always check Enova's own pages before relying on a figure.
The rates tell you what you can receive. The calculation tells you what the measure actually does to your home — how much it saves, what it costs, and whether it should come before or after the others.
Which measures pay off in your home?
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