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 30 Mar 2023

Hull University teaching hospitals save energy and cut emissions with heat pump system

Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH) NHS Trust worked with ICS Cool Energy to retrofit and decarbonise their heating system with the latest heat pump and multi-pipe chiller technologies.... 
 7 Sep 2022

A future saver: Elco heat pump installed at high street bank

?Staff at the Lloyds Bank in Chatham, Kent, are benefiting from highly sustainable heating, thanks to the installation of a new 48kW Aerotop M heat pump from Elco Heating Solutions. The new heat pump has replaced ageing and inefficient gas boilers, ... 
 17 Aug 2022

Haier MRV heat pump systems give new life to former church

Eight Haier MRV air-to-air heat pump systems have been installed at a former church transformed into an extension to a health centre. The project which includes air conditioning, underfloor heating and heat recovery, is unusual for the fact that the ... 
 3 Mar 2022

Q-ton delivers low carbon hot water for Citadines hotel

A London hotel has recently upgraded its hot water generation plant using the Q-ton air-to-water heat pump system from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).... 
 14 Feb 2022

Successful major order for Engie Refrigeration

Engie Refrigeration GmbH from Lindau on Lake Constance, Germany, has successfully delivered its first major order of 2022 - five thermeco2 high temperature heat pumps are currently being installed for the Osatina Group, one of the leading food ... 
 2 Feb 2022

High temperature heat pumps chosen for school decarbonisation project

CIAT heat pumps are being used in a ground-breaking project by a multi-academy school trust to decarbonise heating across several schools. The project is anticipated to reduce carbon emissions by more than 9,000 tonnes over the lifetime of the ... 
 6 Jan 2022

Aerona³ heat pump helps Colchester Football Club go green

Colchester Football Club has been a vaccination centre during the pandemic and when a new heating system was required for the vaccination area, a Grant Aerona³ air source heat pump was installed to keep this essential resource up to temperature.... 
 5 Jan 2022

Carrier helps decarbonise the City of London

Carrier AquaForce 61XWHZE high-temperature heat pumps operating on ultra-low global warming potential (GWP) Hydro-Fluoro-Olefins (HFO) R-1234ze refrigerant have been chosen for E.ON's ground-breaking district heating and cooling scheme in the City ... 
 2 Dec 2021

District heating for an ecological transition in the comfort sector

District heating systems could be a key technology in achieving the international climate mitigation goals, both those laid out in the Paris Agreement and the more stringent ones set by the European Green Deal. In this sense, Frascold – a leading ... 
 9 Nov 2021

Heat pumps deliver 8 Megawatts of renewable heating to improve farm yields

A Leicestershire farming company has installed a combined 8 megawatts (MW) of high-efficiency Carrier AquaForce® ground-source heat pumps in two projects to increase the quality of hay production and enhance returns. Carrier is part of Carrier ... 
 4 Oct 2021

Embraco achieves 41% energy savings in food retail

Embraco, a global provider of refrigeration technology for the complete residential and commercial cold chain, and a portfolio brand of Nidec Global Appliance, presented a case study at the last AtmoEurope, online event held on 29 September, in ... 
Bales of hay being dry.
 4 Oct 2021

AquaForce GSHP for thoroughbred project

Two high-efficiency 1.5MW Carrier heat pumps are being used to dry Lucerne hay, a premium feed in demand by UK racehorse breeders and trainers. The ground source heat pump (GSHP) system was installed at a specialist farm near Coventry by OMNI Heat ... 
 16 Aug 2021

UK Nursery invests in CIAT GSHP system

A 1.9MW heating system powered by highly efficient CIAT ground-source heat pumps is providing low-cost, low-carbon renewable heating for Coletta & Tyson, one of Europe’s largest independent nurseries.... 
 19 Jul 2021

GSHP village format to ‘heat the streets'

A ground-breaking scheme delivering subsidised ground source heat pumps to 500 homes in Cornwall is being described as a blueprint for decarbonising domestic heating.... 
 27 May 2021

Daikin unveils the 4-step guide to decarbonizing our homes

Daikin unveils the 4-step plan to transform residential heating and cooling for a greener Europe. The goal is to decrease CO2 emissions from residential buildings by raising the share of renewable heating and cooling systems to 40% by 2030. This is ... 
 4 May 2021

Major energy savings from retrofit deliver new hope for older buildings

Despite the stop-start trials and tribulations of the Covid-affected 2020 and 2021, the retrofit at The Oxfordshire Golf Hotel and Spa is said to have already seen its thermal energy demand reduced by 93 percent.... 
 10 Jul 2020

Europe’s first smart city quarter powered by Panasonic

Panasonic has started to install its CO2-saving energy solution for the smart city project, Future Living Berlin. The urban beacon is an important project in the company’s wider smart cities portfolio, which contribute to its focus on the ... 
HRH Princess Royal Keyte Gardens with houses.
 9 Jan 2020

Heat pumps in Passivhaus homes bring rewards for residents

Warwickshire Rural Housing Association’s (WRHA) ground-breaking development of ultra-low energy homes is now letting residents reap the rewards one year on.... 
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