Heat Pumps 29

Opinion

Switching from oil and gas to renewables

Since the launch of the domestic RHI, HETAS has seen a noticeable increase in demand for biomass training and MCS registration, reports Robert Burke
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News

Helping hand

The wait is over – the RHI has finally arrived and customers are now looking to apply for the incentive; what does this mean for the installers? And how can they ensure they are meeting the requirements for the DRHI? MCS has listed some information below to help you and your customers Customers will be relying on their MCS certificate to be correct when applying for the RHI and therefore, the installer must ensure the certificate is filled out appropriately. For example, installers need to make sure that if they select ‘no’ for metering on the compliance certificate that they make the same selection on the MCS database – any differences between the two would render the customers RHI application being rejected.
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Opinion

System efficiency and cost control

Bob Long, MD Eco Innovate Ltd New designs and higher levels of sophistication continue to enter the heat pump market, but cheap heating is likely to be your customer’s only consideration, says heat pump specialist Bob Long
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News

Kensa launches installer scheme

Kensa Heat Pumps has launched a campaign to encourage the deployment of ground source heat pumps.
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News

YouGen to host live RHI Q&A session

Renewable energy consumer website YouGen.co.uk will be hosting a live online Q&A session with representatives from DECC from 2-3pm on Monday 28 July.
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News

Innasol saves 85,000 tonnes of CO2

Innasol’s management team (L-R Colm Lawlor, Silvio-Spiess and David Rae) Innasol estimates that it has saved its UK customers over £10 million since the company’s inception.
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Product

Mitsubishi adds RHI functions to heat pump selection tool

Mitsubishi Electric has launched an enhanced version of its heat pump selection tool to include calculations for ground or water source applications over 30kW, and extended the platforms available to include the iPhone and Android devices.
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Opinion

Q&A – Hydratech

Q: What have you got planned for the rest of 2014? To continue developing the excellent relationships and associations Hydratech has built with companies operating, installing and maintaining renewable energy systems. We are the only UK based formulator specialising in the manufacture of inhibited heat transfer fluids and will continue to invest heavily in R&D to expand our innovative product range. Most recently, Biotherm was launched to provide long lasting protection for biomass heating systems and we look forward to seeing the market warm up as individuals take advantage of the domestic RHI.
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Opinion

Heat pumps and flexible living

Bob Long, MD Eco Innovate Ltd Following on from last month’s article discussing suitable choices for heat emitters, heat pump specialist Bob Long looks at the importance of lifestyles requirements and occupants’ specific heating needs Consideration of lifestyle should be an integral part of system design, particularly when the heat source is to be a heat pump.  Designing a heat pump system to optimise upon the economics of operation can be much more complex than designs employing combustible-fuelled counterpart.
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Feature

Sector reacts to non domestic RHI changes

The extension of the non domestic RHI (phase two) also see significant increases to tariffs for GSHPs (from 4.3p/kWh to 8.4p/kWh), large biomass, solar thermal and deep geothermal, which all come into effect this week.
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Product

Mitsubishi launch water source Ecodan

Mitsubishi Electric has launched a new Ecodan ground and water source heat pump system which it claims can deliver up to 960kW of renewable heating and water flow temperatures of up to 65°C.
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News

Heating industry unites over GAHP inclusion in RHI

SEA chief executive Dave Sowden Leading heating industry stakeholders (Heating & Hotwater Industry Council, Sustainable Energy Association, UKLPG, Baxi, British Gas, Calor, Robur, Viessmann and Worcester Bosch) have joined forces to support the inclusion of gas absorption heat pumps (GAHPs) in the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) under the upcoming formal review of the scheme.
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News

Segen launches online forum

Andy Pegg, managing director at Segen Segen has launched a new online discussion forum, available to its customers. The forum has been designed to enable the industry to discuss topics and share experiences of solar PV and heat pumps.
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News

Solfex announces ASHP training dates

SOLFEX Energy Systems has announced new training course dates for installers to become confident in the specification and application of Samsung air source heat pumps.
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