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Halifax-based Viva Training, has been approved by BPEC for heat pump training, includng GSHPs, ASHPs and MCS accreditation..

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Viva is BPEC approved for heat pump training 

Halifax-based Viva Training, has been approved by BPEC for heat pump training, including GSHPs and ASHPs, which enables installers to expand into the renewables sector.
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Case Study

Case study – Shropshire Rural Housing retrofit 

Rural, off-the-grid social housing in need of a retrofit to reduce costs and increase control of heat and water was the task for Kensa during this Shropshire-based case study. See how they did it... 
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Case Study

The Little Ruin gets a new lease of life

In this study, this 200-year-old property is set in the Stroud Valleys, Gloucestershire, and is undergoing a renovation by its owners. The new owners wanted to remove their ageing boiler as part of their modernisation of the property.
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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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Case Study

Case study – GSHP solution for 300-year-old farmhouse

In this study, the featured property is a rural farmhouse in the heart of Northamptonshire, which is now truly warm for the first time in its 300-year history thanks to the installation of a GSHP renewable energy system.
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Case Study

Low carbon solution for Old Millers property

renewable solutions provider, isoenergy provided a low-carbon solution to oil-fired boilers resulting in a 70% reduction of emissions footprint and lower running costs.
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Opinion

Heat pumps in the headlines again – but what is the truth?

These kinds of headlines grab the public’s attention and, even if fundamentally incorrect, still spread misinformation and concern amongst the general public about heat pumps, whose trust the heating industry needs to win over if we are to achieve our legally binding Net Zero targets by 2050.
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Case Study

GSHP solution for a Grade II listed building

In this study the featured property is a fifteenth century Grade II Listed medieval house, Cae’r March, in Snowdonia National Park, previously heated using oil fired central heating. With the remote location making deliveries challenging, the owner linked up with renewable solutions provider, isoenergy, to find a solution to enable them to move away from oil.
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Ground source heat pumps for ground-breaking homes

Thermal Earth has recently begun the process of drilling over 100 boreholes at the largest development in the Cardiff Living housing scheme. The boreholes will provide ground source heating and hot water to 170 new homes on the former site of Eastern high school.
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Opinion

Heat pump industry: GHG can’t be turned off like a tap

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.
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NIBE launches new GSHP policy paper

The paper, which has been shared with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, proposes a new policy to fund 100 years of ground works and bore holes for GSHPs.
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Powering parks

Putting ground source heat pumps beneath the UK’s parks and playing fields could create enough clean energy to heat the equivalent of five million homes.
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