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Skate off: Jayne Torvill is enjoying green heating thanks to ground source heat pumps, supplied and installed by Ice Energy Technologies
Dancing on Ice star Jayne Torvill, who with skate partner Christopher Dean achieved Olympic glory at the 1984 Winter Games, is now enjoying clean, green, cost-effective heating thanks to ground source heat pumps, supplied and installed by Ice Energy Technologies.
Star turn: Brighton Energy Coop has commissioned an 87kW solar array at Shoreham Port near Brighton
Brighton Energy Coop has commissioned an 87 kW solar array at Shoreham Port near Brighton. NRG Renewables, the Southeast specialist for PV, solar thermal, micro CHP and heat pumps, has completed installation of 366 Canadian Solar panels at the site in Shoreham Port, designed to provide clean electricity to local businesses.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has today launched its low carbon heating scheme for communities which is now open to applications.
Viessmann says that its heat pumps should be your first choice if your priorities are to save on heating costs in an environmentally responsible way.
Octopus Investments, in partnership with Geothermal International (GI), has today announced it has entered into an agreement with J Sainsbury’s PLC to install ground source heat pumps at some of its supermarket sites.
SOLFEX energy systems says its customers will be able to prepare earlier for the new 2013 ERP directive regarding changes in the legislation for the usage of circulators and pumps.
Andy Gribble, Plumbase. The company is launching the Ecobase initiative to help installers with the Green Deal
Andy Gribble, Plumbase managing director, asks is the British public is ready for the Green Deal?
Finian Parrick, md of Fair Energy
Fair Energy’s Finian Parrick, looks at some of the issues affecting customers installing district heating systems with the Renewable Heat Incentive in mind
Sun Master Energiesysteme GmbH has introduced the master.system – a plug-in solar system which can be connected to existing heating systems.
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Guy Cashmore, Kensa looks at performance issues with domestic hot water and heat pumps
Performance issues with domestic hot water probably cause more technical calls than any other subject. This is especially true where ‘off the shelf’ indirect cylinders have been combined with larger size heat pumps.
NIBE Energy Systems has launched a campaign to ensure consumer satisfaction for its exhaust air heat pump users.
A renewable energy company has announced the launch of its second franchise, based in Wrexham, North Wales.
A new green fund has been launched to enable commercial buildings to deploy the latest energy saving technologies.
The Heat Pump Association (HPA) say they are seriously concerned about the message the government are sending to consumers and installers following the latest RHI funding announcement from DECC on 11 June.
Dimplex Renewables has unveiled its latest online offering – mygreenheating.co.uk.
BRE’s Introduction to Renewable Energy Technology course will commence in just 10 days time at its Watford campus.
Ground source heat pump manufacturer Kensa Engineering is appealing to social housing landlords to take advantage of the government’s Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) competition.
A £10 million scheme aimed at getting low carbon forms of heating such as biomass boilers, solar hot water panels and heat pumps into the homes of social housing tenants across Great Britain opens to applications today.
NAPIT has been awarded further BPEC approval for the new two-day Heat Pump Systems Installer Training Course, *designed for qualified plumbers, heating engineers, oil engineers or gas engineers wishing to install heat pump systems.
Four of the renewable industry’s trade associations have co-written a letter to climate change minister Greg Barker outlining concerns over elements of the commercial Renewable Heating Incentive (RHI).
City College Plymouth has responded to the growing demand for low carbon courses by announcing that its first cohort of students will be undertaking the Installation of Small Scale Solar Photovoltaic Systems course.
Eight leading companies in the UK heat pump sector have today jointly set out a vision for how industry and government can achieve a radical decarbonising of residential heating in the UK by 2030.
It would be fair to say that the recent announcement that the full Renewable Heat Incentive is to be put back until summer 2013, did not receive a rapturous applause from the renewables industry. Hidden amid the Heat Strategy and up against the news that the Renewable Heat Premium Payment was to have a second phase, how is the industry viewing the delay? Lu Rahman reports