Beyond the term of the statutory warranty, picea owners receive a 10-year warranty. This warranty applies to all components installed in picea. This also includes, for example, the battery, the electrolyser and the fuel cell. A condition for a warranty claim is proper maintenance of the picea. This is ensured by concluding a service contract with HPS and mutual fulfillment of the contract conditions.
To ensure full cost transparency and planning security for you, HPS offers you a service contract. Proper maintenance and service is performed by HPS. The service contract costs € 499.80 (incl. 19% VAT) per year. With the warranty and the service contract you do not have to worry about anything for the next 10 years and there are no further costs.
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picea stores surplus PV electricity from summer as green hydrogen for you, and makes it usable again in winter to supply homes with CO2-free electricity all year round. In addition, the energy from midday is stored to reliably cover your consumption in the evenings and at night.
picea is the Latin name for spruce tree, which grows widely throughout Europe. Because of its fast growth and the timber’s excellent usability, the spruce is the most commonly occurring tree in Germany. Like spruce trees, picea stores sunlight and helps to reduce CO2 throughout Germany.
picea’s performance has been optimised for single-family homes and their consumption patterns. However, it is often possible to use picea in other application areas or to connect several picea systems together to achieve an even higher performance for commercial premises and apartment buildings. Our customer advisers will be delighted to help you.
Additional heating is always required in addition to the picea system. The waste heat from picea is generally not sufficient to heat a house all year round. picea can be combined with all standard types of heating systems. No matter what is used for heating (oil, gas, wood or electricity): with picea you need less of it. Heat pumps are particularly suitable for new buildings. Here, the electricity from picea can be used to operate them and create a modern system for CO2-free heating.
Thanks to hydrogen’s excellent properties for storing energy, electricity produced in summer can be used seasonally. Excess electricity from the PV system is used for electrolysis during the day. The electrolyser is a module in the picea that uses electrical energy to split water (H2O). In the hydrogen storage tank, these resulting H2 molecules are collected and used in winter to supply your electricity needs with the help of the fuel cell, when the sun no longer provides enough energy.
The integrated battery is used to supply your consumption even in summer or in the transitional period. Electricity that is not directly used during the midday period is stored in the battery and made usable again in the evening and at night. Load and yield peaks can also be absorbed by the battery. Combining short-term storage (battery) and long-term storage (hydrogen) therefore provides you with an optimal supply.
In summer, picea produces hydrogen. The conversion produces waste heat that can be used as service water. This summer heat is provided at a temperature of 55 °C. This can be used to heat a buffer or drinking water storage tank. This enables picea to relieve the heating system when producing domestic hot water in summer. In winter, hydrogen is used in the fuel cell to generate electricity. The resulting waste heat is released into the house via the ventilation unit. Used air is extracted and used to cool the fuel cell. It is then passed over a counterflow heat exchanger and releases the heat to fresh air, which is then preheated and prehumidified and fed into the house. This means that picea not only uses the waste heat from the fuel cell, but also keeps the heat in the house that would otherwise be lost during ventilation. If there is no central living room ventilation, the heat can also be used via the buffer or drinking water storage tank.