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ABOUT EVERHOT

Everhot is a British engineering success story, built over four decades here in the Cotswold hills of South Gloucestershire.

Our original birthplace is Coaley Mill, a 13th century water powered mill near Dursley where our Showroom still remains. Just three miles up the river you will find our carbon negative factory where we design and hand build all of our heat storage range cookers and electric stoves. The first Everhot was invented here in Coaley more than 40 years ago thanks to engineer Ossie Goring who was concerned by how much energy his heat storage cooker was using. Living at a water mill, he decided to set about creating an environmentally-friendly electric range cooker which could run off the water turbine he had installed. A few years and many prototypes later, Ossie had perfected a ‘trickle feed’ design which allowed his new cooker to be powered by a small intermittent flow of electricity.

To this day, an Everhot’s peak electricity demand is a fraction of that needed by other heat storage range cookers. Ossie’s breakthrough not only enabled the first Everhot to run off his water turbine, but also a standard 13amp plug. For the last 25 years, Ossie’s son, Guy Goring, also an engineer, has continued to ensure that our cookers set the pace in terms of innovation, efficiency and functionality.  

Our commitment to the environment

Our heat storage range cookers and electric stoves are our biggest focus, and we are continually searching for ways to make them even more efficient and more compatible with renewable energy sources. Everhot trusts in local manufacturing and, to this end, all of our cookers are assembled here in Gloucestershire from parts that are almost exclusively supplied from the UK and using energy that we largely generate ourselves.

The 25kW water turbine which brought our original cooker to life in 1979, still powers our head office and is now supplemented by a biomass heating system using thinnings from our woodland, together with 245kW of solar panels across both our head office and factory roofs. Along with the existing solar panels, we have installed 158kW of battery capacity so we can store excess solar production to use overnight, further reducing our dependence on the electricity grid. Indeed, through the summer months we can often run solely on our own power.

If you are also thinking about installing your own solar panels, an Everhot range cooker – as well as offering supreme energy efficiency – is also ideally suited to working in harmony with domestic solar installations. Click here to find out more.

Our factories are a series of BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) ‘Excellent’ rated buildings, and we are in an ongoing process of refurbishing our historic head office buildings to improve their energy ratings.

Everhot Headoffice
Planting trees as part of the Everhot rewilding project
Water at the Mill at Everhot's Coaley Mill.

Our rewilding projects

In addition to generating our own power, in 2012 we planted 10,000 native trees on a 12-acre site within a mile of our factory. This site is already a haven for wildlife with grass snakes, slow worms, and the relatively rare woodcock all being sighted recently. In March 2020, a further 12,500 native trees were planted in a separate 14-acre site within Coaley. This site is a patchwork of new woodland, water and open grassland and again has been quickly adopted by all manner of wildlife including otters and barn owls.

Everhot MD, Guy with Baby Barn Owls
Baby Barn Owl

At the end of 2020 we purchased an additional 27-acre site in the village which has been planted over the last two winters and now means we have planted in excess of 50,000 native trees within the vicinity of our company. Again, this new site is a patchwork of dew ponds, open grassland and native woodland which means it not only offsets our carbon footprint but also creates a wonderful mixed habitat for wildlife.

We are proud to be Gold Corporate Partners with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and all of the above projects have been completed under the guidance of the Trust to ensure the planting programs are sympathetic to our area. Everhot is based just beneath Coaley Peak, one of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s many nature reserves from where you can see the Severn, the Forest of Dean, Cotswold Escarpment, and the Stroud Valleys.

We are pleased to support Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and share the objective of looking after the amazing variety of wildlife and wild places in Gloucestershire for the future.

Everhot Headoffice

In the Press

You will regularly find Everhot mentioned in and photographed by the national newspapers and monthly consumer lifestyle magazines.

The millpond is a wildlife haven, providing a home to otters, kingfishers, swans and many other birds.

History & Innovation

The first Everhot Cooker was invented more than 40 years ago, here at 13th century Coaley Mill in Gloucestershire overlooking the millpond.

House with Solar Panels running an Everhot Cooker.

RENEWABLES AND SUSTAINABILITY

Your Everhot storage range cooker can ‘wake up’ as the sun rises and go into ‘sleep’ ECO mode as the sun sets using renewable solar energy.