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Wolseley UK has been crowned as a top employer by the Top Employers Institute, a title which is awarded to organisations that demonstrate ‘dedication to building a better world of work as exhibited through excellent HR policies and people practices.’
The UK’s over-reliance on the electricity grid, vividly exposed by recent extreme weather events, highlights the need for alternative energy sources such as solar.
In a bid to inspire installers of the future for a low carbon future, Panasonic has partnered with the Sparks series of events, where UK college lecturers will 'meet the manufacturer' cross the UK throughout January and February.
Vattenfall and Feenstra have teamed up to launch a simple and affordable heat pump system that could be a replacement for traditional gas central heating boilers.
In a move revealing increasing industry confidence in the growth of solar solutions, GoodWe is ramping up activity in the UK with new products for 2022 and a strengthened team.
REI is, once again, pleased to be an official partner of the ever-popular Low Carbon Homes’ retrofit conference, which will take place in Liverpool from 18-20 January.
Grant UK is welcoming Steve Farrow as its new area sales manager for East Anglia to provide support to installers, engineers and merchants on all its heating products and services.
Grant UK has called for installers to ‘adapt very quickly’ to recent changes in the official Building Regulations, describing them as ‘a real beginning for the decarbonisation of heat’.
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.
An increase in demand for high-precision handheld devices, capable of measuring photovoltaic (PV) systems, is developing in the UK, resulting in a need for technicians who know how to troubleshoot PV systems efficiently and effectively.
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.
The photovoltaic market is growing. In Europe alone, the cumulative installed PV capacity amounted to 151.7 GW by the end of 2020. And the trend continues. By 2024, the SolarPower Europe association expects an installed capacity of 253 gigawatts.
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?
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,