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News

Finn Geotherm expands workforce by 25 percent

Finn Geotherm has expanded its workforce by a quarter to meet the company’s reported growth in demand for its ASHP and GSHP design and installation services.
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Opinion

Summer maintenance

Summer may not be a time when we want to remember cold winter weather, but it’s certainly the best season to service heating systems, explains heat pump specialist Bob Long in the first of two parts
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Opinion

Poor economics limit market growth

Heat pump specialist Bob Long calls for more efficient models of the technology to take on low cost natural gas.
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News

Kensa to co-host social housing retrofit event

The teams at Kensa and Trent & Dove are hosting a one-off event for housing associations Trent & Dove Housing and Kensa Heat Pumps are holding a one off event for housing associations looking to combat fuel poverty, at Burton’s Pirelli Stadium on 11 June.
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Opinion

Pollard’s patter

I am currently immersed in the Energy Related Products (ErP) directive. You may know that from 26 September it becomes mandatory for most heating devices to be ErP compliant and to carry an energy label. This includes air source, water source or ground source heat pumps. Furthermore, where a defined set of components are installed together, then there is a need for a ‘Package Label’ which could include a solar thermal device.
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News

NIBE publish exhaust air heat pump factsheet

Phil Hurley, managing director at NIBE NIBE has published a guide explaining the European Commission’s decision in 2013 to classify exhaust air heat pumps as renewable technology.
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News

CSA to host free RHI heat pump workshop

Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor The Carbon Savings Alliance (CSA) will be hosting a one-off technical workshop on RHI funded heat pump solutions in association with Kensa Heat Pumps and My Green Heating on May 14, in Exeter.
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News

Daikin UK publishes energy labelling white paper

Ahead of EU legislative changes in September, Daikin UK has published its white paper ‘New Ecodesign Rules and Energy Labelling for Space and Water Heaters’, to shed light on energy efficiency requirements and labelling obligations.
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Opinion

Talking tech

As often happens with my monthly article, the content is decided by yet another real-life event, from the heat pump world. We received a call from the owner of a property with a broken-down heat pump at a location near Preston. The heat pump had been installed four years prior and had cost significantly more to run than originally expected.
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News

Energy-related Product Labelling

Kelly Butler, marketing director at BEAMA, reminds readers of the legal implications of this year’s ErP introduction
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News

DECC unveils national water heat map

A new online tool has been launched for communities identifying the potential for extracting heat from Britain’s rivers, estuaries, canals and coastal areas.
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News

500 homes receive free heat pumps from Kensa

L-R Simon Lomax (MD), Lord Taylor (chairman) and Chris Davis (commercial director) 500 homes across the UK are to become the first recipients of Kensa’s fully funded GSHP offer.
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News

Kensa completes 2014 installer roadshow

Kensa Heat Pumps has wrapped its installer roadshow for 2014 which saw it engage with over 250 MCS and Oftec installers at 18 locations.
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News

Panasonic welcomes social house RHI change

Panasonic has welcomed the latest changes to the domestic RHI scheme that come into effect in spring 2015 which benefit those in the social housing sector.
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Opinion

Getting into hot water

Bob Long, MD Eco Innovate Ltd Heat pump specialist Bob Long revisits the topic of domestic hot water production from heat pump systems and the potential for high energy costs
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