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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.
At Vaillant’s high-tech centre they go to great lengths to ensure that products are up to the job. Heat pumps are tested to the extreme as explained by Mark Wilkins, technologies and training director at Vaillant.
Panasonic air-to-water Aquarea heat pumps are providing energy-efficient heating and hot water to the Wicklow Hospice in Ireland.
AMTE Power has been confirmed as a partner of a new government-funded project to reduce the charging times of electric vehicles to just 12 minutes.
As the industry evolves to meet government targets to decarbonise homes across the UK, just how confident is the workforce to tackle the challenges ahead? Is the need for upskilling and retraining regarded as a positive step forward and how will installers navigate the surge in demand for heat pumps and updated installations?
The biggest-ever round of government’s flagship renewable energy auction scheme is now open with £285 million a year funding for low-carbon technology to allow the UK to move away from volatile foreign fossil fuels.
through the replacement of millions of fossil fuel heating systems, the report overlooks a vital ingredient - the workers.
Vaillant is supporting multiple projects across the UK and Europe that are exploring how to make the hydrogen-blend vision a reality, such as HyDeploy at Keele University, which has proven that blending up to 20% volume of hydrogen with natural gas is a safe and greener alternative to the gas we use now.
BayWe r.e is set to begin construction of the UK’s largest solar farm, which will deliver 52 GWh/year of clean renewable electricity - enough electricity to power the equivalent annual needs of around 15,000 family homes.
Caldera Heat Batteries has secured a £470,000 grant from the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to rollout their innovative Warmstone heat batteries to twelve pilot off-grid and hard-to-heat homes across the south of England.
LG has launched the latest version of its sector leading Therma V Monobloc air to water heat pump – the Therma V R32 Monobloc ‘S’.
The G1 Installer Scheme is Grant UK’s loyalty programme for heating engineers who fit Grant oil boilers and renewable technologies.
As we approach the launch of campaigns such as the Boiler Grant Scheme, due for release in April, as part of the government’s plans to drive down the cost of low carbon heating technologies, we believe reflection on past scheme failures will be the key to moving forward effectively in the future.
Why does investing in energy storage at the same time as renewable products such as solar or air source heat pumps hold the key to net zero emissions? Carlton Cummins, co-founder and chief technical officer at clean technology firm Aceleron explains the benefits.
Griff Thomas, managing director of GTEC, looks at the growing EV charging market and its potential to contribute to net zero 2050,
The Sustainable Energy Association (SEA) has published a report, commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, setting out advice for delivering a successful Home Upgrades Grant (HUG) scheme.
RSK Group Limited has announced the acquisition of four businesses, including heat pump specialists, across the environmental services sector.
The next generation of Q-Bot's underfloor robots aredriving down carbon emissions and providing savings
AceOn, a West Midlands renewable energy and battery company, is demonstrating its own commitment to helping the environment with a £20,000 investment in solar panels
Launched in 2018, Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc (GRID) is one of only two publicly listed funds devoted to investing in utility-scale operational battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Vokèra, by Riello, has launched the Unica MAX, its hybrid enabled, 20% hydrogen-ready gas condensing boiler range
rces with Wynnstay as their recommended partner for renewable energy advice and installations for their agricultural customers across England and Wales.
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.
Steve Dunning, managing director of Martindale Electric, explains how ALIVE can help safeguard renewable energy installers and ultimately save lives.