Wiggly Amps Ltd History

The company was founded by Pete Birch and Jon Witte and was incorporated on the 19th July 2000. Both Pete and Jon were RAF Fighter Pilots who were looking for a new challenge after their military service ended. Founding and running your own business may not appear as exciting as flying a multi million jet aircraft but everybody has to grow up some day!

See Jon's last flight below!

We are often asked about our company name: The term Wiggly Amps is often used in the RAF as a colloquial description of the advanced electronics and software seen in today's aircraft. It was felt that the name Wiggly Amps succinctly described the abilities and aims of the new company as well as providing a link with our past. But perhaps most importantly the name is memorable and hopefully it will bring a smile to your face.

Our Headquarters

As you can tell from our address, Wiggly-Amps Ltd is one of the country's emerging rural businesses. Our offices are deep in the Norfolk countryside offering us a pleasant and mostly relaxing working environment.

Wiggly Amps saves our nature

Here at Wiggly-Amps Ltd we strive to ensure that our impact on the environment is kept to a minimum. All talk and no action? Not Wiggly.

Although our offices and workshops are converted agricultural buildings we have managed to combine new technology with the old technology of the bricks and mortar to give us a great working environment. The buildings were converted with energy management in mind. We used state of the art insulation in the roof, walls and floors ensuring that our energy loss is kept to a minimum. The only downside to this is that our mobile phone reception is poor within the building. The foil lining of the insulation has produced an excellent Faradays cage reducing the signal strength within the building.

All the glazing in our buildings are double with large gap argon filled K glass that helps us retain the heat from the sun reducing the amount of energy lost through the glass. Effectively our windows act as one way valves for the suns heat.

Both the ground and first floor are of solid construction thus the interior of the building has a large thermal mass. Through this thermal mass passes under floor heating pipes to distribute our heating energy in the form of hot (or warm water).

The warm water is produced by a super efficient geothermal heat pump. In fact our heating energy is actually collected from earth under the surrounding fields - effectively we have very large green solar panels that are kept in shape by grazing sheep! The system does require electricity to drive the pumps and the compressor of the heat pump but we get about 4 times more heating energy than the electricity we consume.

But in our opinion that is not good enough - Our electricity consumption is still not fully green. Within a few months we expect to be 100% self sufficient with our energy produced by a wind turbine. To be truthful we will generate more than we use - when it is windy the excess going back to the grid. However on those calm days we will still use energy from the national grid. Overall our generation will be greater than our consumption hence the 100% claim.

Watch this space we have a few more ideas up our sleeves that we intend to progress over the next year.