Case Study

Case study – Shropshire Rural Housing retrofit 

In this study, the properties are part of the Shropshire Rural Housing Association (SRHA), which is a small rural housing association with over 270 deeply rural homes throughout the county.

As most of their rural homes are off the gas grid, they are heated by electric storage heaters. These heaters have been unpopular due to the cost of running the heaters and lack of controllability. 

Summary 

Property type: Social housing 

Technologies installed: Heat pump 

Collector type: Boreholes 

Size (kW): 4.3kW & 6.2kW  

New/retrofit: Retrofit 

Brand: Kensa 

Challenges: 

Most of the homes are off the gas grid and heated by electric storage heaters, which has proved unpopular because of cost and the lack of control. The association knew they had to replace the storage heaters to achieve better efficiency, but with no access to mains gas, the options were limited and unaffordable. 

The recommended solution: 

Kensa recommended the installation of ground source heat pump systems in the homes to give tenants control over their heating, reduce their energy costs and invest in modern low carbon technology to reduce our carbon footprint. Feedback from tenants has confirmed that this has been achieved as they now have control over their heating using the system to deliver better comfort levels at a reduced cost. 

Key features: 

4.3kW & 6.2kW Kensa high temperature single compact heat pumps 

Outcome: 

38 retrofit installations were successfully carried out between October 2013 and March 2014. The installed heat pump solution is such that it will provide controllable heating and hot water solution. Feedback from tenants has confirmed that this has been achieved as they now have control over their heating using the system to deliver better comfort levels at a reduced cost. 

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