Heat Pumps

Heat pump innovation for retrofit

10/9/2019

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The lake at Welham Hall is used as a water source

Stiebel Eltron and Pure Renewables have provided a heat pump solution for an award-winning retrofit project at Welham Hall in North Yorkshire.

The installation consists of two Stiebel Eltron WPF 13S heat pumps, which provide heating and hot water to the whole property using a nearby lake as a water source.

Grant training in Scotland

5/9/2019

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Grant UK’s Training Academy will be delivering product training courses at the HLI Centre in Livingston from next month (October). The courses include air source heat pumps and Grant’s new underfloor heating range.

Throughout the summer, a number of Grant products have been installed at the HLI Centre, which joins the GTEC Centre in Hawes, North Yorkshire, and the main Training Academy at Grant UK’s head office in Devizes, Wiltshire.

For more details visit the Grant UK website.

Residents feel ground source benefit

3/9/2019

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The district heating system plant room at Quayside Court

Housing association residents in Suffolk are enjoying warm homes with significantly lower heating bills, thanks to a new communal ground source heat pump.

Norfolk-based renewable heating expert Finn Geotherm has completed the district heating system in In partnership with Gasway Services, part of Flagship Group.

LG heat pumps at Plumbase

27/8/2019

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LG's Neil Hopkinson and Ian Smith from Plumbase Renewables

Plumbase has become the first major merchant group to stock LG’s range of air to water heat pumps.

The Therma V line-up of R32 Monobloc, splits and high temperature splits will be availabe at 150 Plumbase branches available across the UK.

HPA adds backing to clean growth report

27/8/2019

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HPA chairman Graham Wright

The Heat Pump Association (HPA) has joined the Ground Source Heat Pump Association in backing a report from the Science and Technology Committee, which warns that the UK is in danger of missing its net-zero emissions targets.

The report, Clean Growth: Technologies for meeting the UK’s emissions reduction targets, outlines 10 key policy areas that need to be addressed if the UK is to deliver on its net-zero ambitions.

Clean growth report welcomed

22/8/2019

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Bean Beanland, GSHPA

The Ground Source Heat Pump Association has welcomed a report on clean growth from the Science and Technology Committee, which highlights a lack of Government policies in place to deliver the net zero emissions target by 2050.

Among the ‘areas of shortfall’ identified are a lack of promised consultation on changes to Building Regulations to improve energy efficiency. The report also points out that the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme is due to close in 2021 but no replacement scheme has yet been announced.

Grant extends Bath Rugby backing

21/8/2019

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Grant UK is backing Bath Rugby for a fifth consecutive year.

The firm became a Business Partner of the club in 2015 and has used home games at The Rec to strengthen and build relationships with customers.

Uflexing heat pump muscles

20/8/2019

The recently launched Uflex wet underfloor heating range is designed to partner with heat pumps. Grant UK managing director Paul Wakefield describes the installation process.

Grant UK’s wet underfloor heating range comprises of two systems – Uflex and Uflex MINI. Designed to partner effectively with renewable technologies, this underfloor heating solution complements and works alongside existing product ranges. Both systems are highly effective, easy to install and use the same manifolds. In this step by step we are looking at the Uflex MINI system.

Aquarea marches on

12/8/2019

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Part of the Spire View development in March, Cambridgeshire

A new development of 20 executive homes in Cambridgeshire is using Panasonic Aquarea Monobloc air to water heat pumps to supply heating and domestic hot water.

The four and five bedroom homes at Spire View, in March, have been built by James Developments and equipped by distributor Oceanair.

Kensa expansion to create new jobs

12/8/2019

From left, Craig Pascoe of HSBC, Kensa Group CEO Simon Lomax and MP Sarah Newton

British ground source heat pump manufacturer Kensa Heat Pumps has begun construction of a new 900m2 manufacturing and office facility on its current site in Cornwall.

Coinciding with its 20th year anniversary, the new premises at the former Mount Wellington Mine will enable Kensa to produce 30,000 ground source heat pumps every year, which it says will provide carbon savings equivalent to taking 60,000 cars off the road.