Q: What do you do?
Established in 1999, Kensa remains the UK’s only manufacturer of a full range of ground source heat pumps serving residential, industrial and commercial buildings.
Q: Where are you?
Kensa’s manufacturing facility is in Truro, Cornwall. There is a commercial office in Exeter, and installers within the Kensa Underground Network throughout the UK.
Q: How’s business at the moment?
Good. The launch of the domestic RHI, and the increase to the GSHP non-domestic RHI tariffs, have combined to stimulate increased interest plus the launch of innovative products, such as the Shoebox Heat Pump, has created significant demand in the new-build housing sector. Kensa’s ability to provide expert technical support is encouraging many installers to embrace the technology, particularly now the appeal of the domestic RHI tariffs is understood.
Q: How could business be better?
The sector is crying out for certainty from government over the available subsidy support. It was disappointing that the domestic RHI wasn’t launched with more fanfare but at least there is finally a message that the supply chain can take to market. An increase in the price of heating oil (to 2010 levels) would obviously be helpful whilst all proponents of GSHPs must continue to promote the extra efficiency and durability and the technology’s status as the most unobtrusive renewable.
Q: What’s the best business advice you’ve ever received?
My favourite business quote is from Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success” whilst the best business advice is to stay focussed and place the customer at the centre of everything you do.
Q: How are you going green?
The Truro factory is carbon neutral benefitting from solar PV Panels and a GSHP installation that takes heat from the flooded mine shafts below.
Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
