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BESA, in collaboration with the Home Builder Federation (HBF) and Worcester Bosch have created an online course designed to upskill qualified heating, plumbing and RAC engineers to correctly install and maintain domestic heat pumps.
The award, from the Innovation category was awarded for the Lancashire-based company’s hydrogen boiler, which was developed as part of its commitment to move away from traditional nature gas fired boilers in order to be a cleaner, greener manufacturing business.
NIBE Energy Systems has announced a new partnership for its heat pump deliveries, appointing Expect Distribution to provide UK wide transport coverage from 1st June 2021. The transport and logistics company will support NIBE in enhancing its service to installers, with improved product tracking and delivery timescales.
Following on from the case study shared earlier this week, Max Halliwell, communications manager, residential heating, Mitsubishi Electric & vice chairman of the UK’s Heat Pumps Association tells us more about using heat pumps and solar PV to retrofit a school in Gloucestershire, as well as his views on the retrofitting opportunity for installers.
This ban comes as one of 400 steps on the road to net zero, as proposed in a special report by the agency. The report has been welcomed as an important contribution on the road to COP26 in Glasgow, when countries will attempt to agree the measures needed to put the Paris climate agreement into practice.
This first of three posts in our retrofitting mini-series showcases the project, highlighting what you need to know about retrofitting using renewable technologies.
This Wiltshire home was extended to transform the property into a five-bedroom house. When the homeowners started this project, they decided to take the opportunity to add a renewable technology into their heating system by utilising the additional roof space being created by the extension. A Grant solar thermal system was chosen and installed, helping the family to not only significantly reduce their carbon footprint but also lower their monthly heating bills.
As an ‘all-in-one’ heating solution, the Therma V R32 Monobloc outdoor unit consists of three main components: a plate heat exchanger, an A-Class water pump and the expansion tank.
Shaun McCarthy has joined Grant UK in the new position of sales support engineer, providing onsite pre- and post-installation product support for all of Grant’s renewable heating technologies.
They are now inviting tenders from MCS certified installers of air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, Solar PV (photovoltaic) and energy storage systems to install both national and regionally.
The firm received significant backing in a two-week public vote which decided the final five finalists for the Manufacturing Innovator of the Year award in the 2021 Innovation Awards.
PHI is an independent research institute that has played a crucial role in the development of the Passive House concept, which is considered a building that is ‘truly energy efficient, comfortable, and affordable at the same time’. It is the only internationally recognised, performance-based energy standard in construction. Passive House is a voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, which reduces the building’s ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling.
The new Wamflow Zeno inverter driven air source heat pumps range is one of the most intelligent and advanced heating systems available and offers unparalleled efficiency, is more eco-friendly while also being incredibly effective.
Energy Superhub Oxford (ESO) is one of three demonstrator projects, part-funded by government, designed to showcase how innovative technologies can be combined to create smart, local energy systems
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If you regularly install and register Vaillant products, you could be eligible to receive rewards, ongoing support and business growth with Vaillant Advance – a loyalty scheme created for installers.
The firm — whose national reputation for its expertise has led to it being dubbed the Telford company taking on Tesla — has been shortlisted for the Manufacturing Innovator of the Year award in the 2021 Innovation Awards.
Over the next decade, electricity energy storage systems will play a key role in creating a ‘smart’ energy grid which is more efficient, flexible and can cope with the complexities of a low-carbon society.
Ian, the founder and managing director of Boiler Plan UK, has already written to business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng urging him to extend GHGS until its entire £2billion budget is claimed. However, last month the government scrapped the scheme after blaming administrative delays and the huge demand for the vouchers.
The judges, including architect Paul Testa, reviewed all entries on the criteria including uniqueness in the market, performance and efficiency, environmental accreditations, overall value, suitability for use and sustainable production methods.
Primarily a EN 12831 compliant calculator, it can undertake room by room heat loss calculations to allow for the appropriate sizing of heat emitters.
If the UK Government is to meet its legally binding net zero emissions target by 2050, installation supply chains for low carbon heating are going to have to be much stronger than they are today.
Grants between £1,000 and £5,000 are available to help fund up to a third of the cost of systems including solar PV, biomass boilers, solar thermal, small-wind turbines, and wood fuel heaters. Projects funded include equipment upgrades, waste reduction machinery, and of course renewable energy systems. The programme has already awarded over 30 grants for renewable energy projects, with a sharp increase in applications for solar being seen in 2020/21. Solar PV projects are now the second most popular across the scheme, with 10% of applications being for this intervention (up from 0.6%) A further increase has been seen during the last month, with 50% of awarded grants in Berkshire having been for solar PV arrays.
According to scientists from the University of Sussex, the UK needs ‘heat pump influencers’ to speed up the transition to net zero buildings. While it is clear that a low-carbon energy transition requires a multitude of technologies and policies, the study focusses on heat pumps, which have been shown to be a critical low-carbon option for meeting domestic heating demand, potentially leading the way towards a broader transition