Following on from the government’s announcement of the Heat and Buildings strategy, leading manufacturers in the industry have welcomed the focus of direction and positive vision for a low carbon future.
Vital Energi and Star Renewables have officially opened the UK’s first large-scale water source heat pump project at the award-winning Queens Quay heat pump energy centre
Panasonic Heating and Cooling Solutions has released an innovative online design tool with calculator to help quickly identify the most appropriate Aquarea air-to-water heat pump, calculate savings and CO2 emissions at the click of a button.
A delightful coastal cottage, owned and maintained by the National Trust, is enjoying the benefits of choosing a renewable energy system to provide hot water and heating for its guests.
Not every home is ready to make the change to fully-renewable heating. But now, there’s a solution that means everyone can take advantage of the heat pump revolution.
This diversification in the market brings new opportunities as well as challenges for installers and consumers. Vaillant believes there must be an urgent increase of support for installers in the industry to expand their skills to accommodate heat pumps if the Government’s target of 600,000 heat pumps sold per annum by 2028 is to be met.
Facilitated by Low Carbon Homes, there are a number of events taking place throughout June and July. Each event is hosted by influential partners and guided by an advisory board of stakeholder representatives to determine event outputs and programme content in order to support the next steps of scaling up heat decarbonisation, locally.
The training academy at Grant UK’s head offices in Wiltshire, has been established for almost two decades and during that time, the premises have been adapted to meet the ever-changing training requirements of heating engineers. Starting out providing oil boiler training and OFTEC qualification and assessments, the academy later expanded to offer a comprehensive selection of courses on renewable heating systems. Today, air source heat pump courses are the most popular with over 700 installers and heating engineers completing heat pump training through the academy within the last two years.
Located on the outskirts of Swindon, the off-gas Oakfield development, a 239-plot development, is being managed by property developers, Igloo Regeneration, and construction partner, Mi-space, and the first homes will be available in 2022.
BESA, in collaboration with the Home Builder Federation (HBF) and Worcester Bosch have created an online course designed to upskill qualified heating, plumbing and RAC engineers to correctly install and maintain domestic heat pumps.
The award, from the Innovation category was awarded for the Lancashire-based company’s hydrogen boiler, which was developed as part of its commitment to move away from traditional nature gas fired boilers in order to be a cleaner, greener manufacturing business.
This first of three posts in our retrofitting mini-series showcases the project, highlighting what you need to know about retrofitting using renewable technologies.
The new Wamflow Zeno inverter driven air source heat pumps range is one of the most intelligent and advanced heating systems available and offers unparalleled efficiency, is more eco-friendly while also being incredibly effective.
The judges, including architect Paul Testa, reviewed all entries on the criteria including uniqueness in the market, performance and efficiency, environmental accreditations, overall value, suitability for use and sustainable production methods.
Jose Alves, UK country manager for Panasonic commented: ‘Panasonic had welcomed the UK Government’s scheme to help the sector and to help reach its net zero targets. We therefore have no hesitation in continuing with both our Green Cashback schemes to help both installers and homeowners to make the switch to renewable air source heat pumps, in a bid to help homeowners to decarbonise their homes and become more energy efficient.’
With sustainability and good quality high on the agenda for this new development, making the right specification choices was very important to the developer. Andy Denton, director of Marshgate Properties commented: ‘Selecting sustainable energy options is high on our list of important aspects for the homes we build. We had already installed Panasonic Aquarea Heat Pumps on a previous project a year earlier and have been impressed with the units and their performance. This, together with UK Alternative Energy’s professional approach and proficient installation team, has proven successful for the heating and hot water provision for this latest project.’With the new development’s rural location, mains gas was not an option as an energy source. Marshgate Properties has chosen to continue specifying the Panasonic Aquarea range of renewable air source heat pumps, making the move away from fossil fuels, and to help reduce the carbon footprint of each property, as well as providing on-going efficiencies for residents.
Matthew Thompson took the helm of his family business, Thompson Heating & Plumbing Ltd over 7 years ago. With the company being a big advocate of renewables, it is no wonder that when Matt started refurbishing a new family home in Duns Tew village, he chose to move away from fossil fuels.
Whilst the Green Homes Grant has come in for a great deal of criticism, and has struggled to attract installers, partly because of the terms and conditions, and partly because of the apparent failings in its administration, the scheme has successfully raised consumer awareness of heat pump technology to a level that no other intervention to date has achieved.
The Heat Pump Association (HPA), which represents around 95% of the heat pump manufacturing market share, has surveyed its members to estimate the supply of heat pumps in 2021. This has revealed that manufactures have placed orders with their supply chains to deliver a total of 67,000 units in 2021. This equates to a nearly double the number of heat pumps on shelves and in warehouses ready for installers to meet the growing consumer demand.
Panasonic are currently offering installers £800 and their customers an additional £600 as part of their Green Install Cashback Scheme and Green Homes Cashback scheme.
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