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News

83% surge of installers are planning a move into renewables  

Are you planning to move over to renewables? 72% of installers are likely to expand into renewables in the next three years while 83% plan to transition into air source heat pump renewables, a Wolseley study reveals.
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News

Discounted heat pump training for Nottingham installers 

Nottingham-based plumbing and heating tradespeople are being offered discounted heat pump training, by renewables training provider GTEC, to help them to brush up on their skills before the end of March 2022.
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News

Aerona³ heat pump helps Colchester Football Club go green

Colchester Football Club has been repurposed as a vaccination centre during the pandemic, and a Grant Aerona³ air source heat pump has been installed to keep this essential resource up to temperature.
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News

Panasonic heat pumps power Irish hospice

Panasonic air-to-water Aquarea heat pumps are providing energy-efficient heating and hot water to the Wicklow Hospice in Ireland.
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News

Surge in demand for heat pump training

Logic4training says it experienced a 6,700% increase in online enquiries for heat pump training on the day of the government’s announcement to subsidise boiler upgrades.
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News

Worcester Bosch launches new air to water heat pumps

The 7001iAW is an air to water heat pump that provides cooling and heating for homeowners, while the Hybrid 7000iAW is a hybrid system (compatible with a variety of heat pumps and combi boilers), which uses the best of both worlds to efficiently heat the home. 
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Case Study

Air source solution for a Saxon manor house

Our latest case study from renewable solutions provider, isoenergy, features the air source retrofit of a Saxon Manor house which had previously been heated by gas.
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Product

Panasonic reveals air-to-water heat pump calculator

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.
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News

Heat pumps create sustainable development for locals

The development of two three-bedroom houses and four two-bedroom flats near Helston, Cornwall was granted permission based on the homes being made available to people who are local or who have strong connections to the parish area. The ethos of the build was to create homes for the local community that would be both affordable and sustainable and to ensure planning requirements were met, renewable heating systems were required.
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Opinion

The business of heat pumps

The need to lower UK carbon emissions is immediate if we have any chance of meeting our net zero 2050 target.  Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP) are a well-established technology that offer significant carbon savings when compared to gas or oil central heating. ASHP’s are far more efficient than other electric heating systems, producing as much as four times more heat than the electricity they use. 
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Guide

Part 6: How to select the right air source heat pump and why?

Throughout this series of posts, Chris Higgs, managing director of Freedom Heat Pumps has considered everything from the look and sound of heat pumps to the efficiency and electrical loading in the hopes that it helps you, the installer, answer some of the questions that your customers may have. Here, in our sixth and final post of this series, Chris takes a look at the cost of heat pumps, and why accreditation, such as that from MCS, may be important for installer.
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Guide

Part 4: How to select the right air source heat pump and why?

Here, Chris Higgs brings us part four of our series, taking a closer look at refrigerant types for heat pumps and how there has been a shift to more environmentally friendly refrigerants in recent years, as well as the 3 designations of heat pump flow temperature.
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