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UK Government backs swathe of green heating projects including sewer-powered heat pumps
…traditional gas heating. Hull East District Heat Network: With a £22m investment, Hull’s district heat network will use excess heat from a nearby chemicals park, providing low-carbon heating to public…
National Trust to replace oil heating with heat pumps at historic ‘Palace of Art’
…heat pump at The Vyne in Hampshire and a ground-source heat pump at Speke Hall near Liverpool. The Trust has also integrated heat pumps into domestic buildings, including holiday and…
Study: Brits face extra £9bn energy bills due to Government’s go-slow on heat pumps
…stock and a more rapid rollout of heat pumps. The Government is targeting 600,000 heat pump installations annually by 2028 but its own climate advisors have warned that it is…
Brits fitting solar and heat pumps as Government prepares to scale back bills support
…on Regarding low-carbon heating, previous research has shown that many homes are keen to fit heat pumps for benefits such as lower bills and lower carbon. But they often find…
Sound-powered heat pumps and dairy without the cow: April 2023’s best green innovations
…rooms and additional detached structures, as well as custom additions such as heat pumps and solar panels for off-grid living. Heat pumps that leverage sound energy The International Energy Agency…
From nuclear to heat pumps: What’s included in the UK’s new Energy Act?
…fuel heating appliances to ensure that heat pumps account for an ever-increasing proportion of their total appliance sales. This is similar to the Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate for automakers. Time-bound…
Premier Inn to replace gas with heat pumps across hotel estate
…sites to identify appropriate technologies for energy efficiency and low-carbon heating. The firm has already switched to heat pumps at some 40 existing hotels. New-build hotels will need to be…
Heat pumps and EVs still too expensive for the majority of Brits, survey finds
…Boiler Upgrade Scheme from £5,000 to £7,500. He made this change in tandem with weakening time-bound targets to get homes with oil-fired and gas-fired boilers to switch to heat pumps…
Volcanic batteries and speedier hydrogen R&D: The best green innovations for Net-Zero November 2023
…system that could contribute to the phase-out of fossil fuel heating for homes. Under the Harvest Thermal system, air-source heat pumps pull warm air into a building to heat water…
Waste heat from Scottish supercomputer to be reused to warm homes
…heated water could then be transported around the mine system at a maximum of 40C. Heat from the water will be used to serve heat pumps within homes or other…
Reports: Ministers threatened to resign over proposed weakening of heat pump ambitions
…will mandate heating manufacturers to ensure that heat pumps account for an ever-increasing proportion of their output. In tandem, the Government could do away with a target for 600,000 heat…
National Infrastructure Commission: UK should rule out hydrogen for home heating
…galvanising economic support for emerging low-carbon technologies such as heat pumps. The NIC is recommending that the Government fully subsidises heat pump installation costs for one-third of homes, based on…
UK Government urged to rule out hydrogen heating, especially in rural communities
…instance, the costs were estimated for 5,000 domestic properties. In the first scenario, domestic heating would be fully electrified with air-source heat pumps, and in the second, all homes connected…
UK Government to keep homes warm using waste heat from data centres
…utilising heat pumps, a new solar farm and access to wind energy. Many businesses are also trialling methods to power nearby homes with waste heat from their energy-intensive data centres,…
UK geothermal project gets share of £91m low-carbon heating fund
…energy centres and biomass plants and ground and air source heat pumps. A total of £20m has been provided for the construction and commercialisation of a heat network to deliver…
National Grid moves to speed heat pump and solar panel installations
…heat pump installations. Policymakers are likely to axe rules preventing air-source heat pump installations within one metre of a property boundary without planning permission and ease rules enabling multiple heat…
UK’s heat pump grant scheme set for overhaul to encourage uptake
At present, the scheme caps grants for air-source heat pumps at £5,000 and for ground-source heat pumps at £6,000. Properties need to meet certain requirements to access this maximum, including…
London stalling: Why the capital’s stellar climate resiliency progress is at risk
…target calling for the installation of 600,000 heat pumps annually by 2028. To provide context, only 55,000 heat pumps were installed in 2021. In tandem with this target, a proposed…
UK confirms delay to heat pump manufacturing mandates
…Heatio co-founder Thomas Farquhar called the decision “cowardly”. He said: “This was a proposal to increase competition and drive down prices for clean heat technologies such as heat pumps, making…
Hampshire to host UK’s largest water-source heating and cooling network
…that the solution is more efficient than using air source heat pumps due to the stable and higher average temperature of the water. The organisations claim the water-source system will…
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