Heating Tower Bridge: A tale of two boiler houses
The success of a boiler upgrade project at Tower Bridge relied heavily on close collaboration within the project team and Hoval’s end-to-end service delivery.
As...
Reducing thermal stratification in space heating
Hoval has launched a modular, scalable solution for heating and ventilating warehouses and other ‘shed’ type buildings of any size and height, providing significantly...
Atlantis lands grant for multiple tidal turbine hub
Simec Atlantis has landed a £1.5m grant to start building a subsea hub, where multiple tidal turbines can connect.
The aim is to get more...
Legal & General buys into heat pump firm Kensa
Legal & General Capital has acquired a 36 per cent stake in heat pump firm Kensa as it amasses a portfolio of companies aiming...
Heat pumps, energy efficiency and DSR ‘critical’ to decarbonise London
If London is to stand a chance become a net zero emissions city within a decade, mass deployment and funding of heat pumps will...
New MD for Baxi
Karen Boswell will be the new managing director of Baxi Heating UK and Ireland. She replaces David Pinder, who retires from the firm after...
Muntons to decarbonise 100 GWh of heat demand each year
AMP Clean Energy is to install, own and operate a £16.5 million low carbon energy centre for leading malt product manufacturer and distributor, Muntons –...
Government proposes amendments to heat metering and billing
The government proposes amendments to heat metering and billing, its response sets out the new requirements for heat suppliers, and the changes made to the...
Viridor and Vattenfall collaborate to harness low carbon heat for UK cities
Vattenfall will work with recycling and energy recovery company, Viridor, to capture heat from Viridor’s energy recovery facilities (ERFs) across the UK. Heating in...
Baxi Heating commits to net zero operations by 2030
Baxi Heating UK and Ireland, part of BDR Thermea Group, commits to net zero operations by 2030 and to manufacturing products that only use...
UK household waste can pave way to a green bioLPG future
A new report released by Liquid Gas UK (LGUK), the trade association for the LPG industry in the UK, outlines how a green future...
BHIVE: a dynamic purchasing system for heat networks
BEIS has established a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for heat networks - the BEIS Heat Investment Vehicle (BHIVE). It will allow public sector heat...
A risk or an opportunity to alleviate fuel poverty?
The updated Heat Network require that Operators of all unmetered shared heating system must, where possible, charge Residents for their measured heat use. So,...
Government forecasts its RHI commitments
Monthly and quarterly forecasts have been released for the Government's estimated committed RHI expenditure for the next 12 months.
The data in Table 1 below...
Refrigerants could pose sustainability risk to heat pump rollout
Heat pump suppliers are being urged to consider balancing an expected surge of installations in 2021 with long-term environmental targets concerning the global warming...
Getting heat billing right
Fairly and accurately charging for heat has always been a problem to solve cheaply and easily when addressing the retrofit of existing properties. Ista’s...
Keeping leading UK brewery operations cool
ICS Cool Energy has helped a leading multinational brewery in Burton-on-Trent to fulfil its cold storage and process cooling needs.
The brewery was looking for a...
COVID-19 has caused a 14% increase in home daytime heating
A new study from tado° has found that UK homes had their daytime heating on 14% more this winter in comparison to the previous...
Government pledges £44 m for green heat networks for homes & public buildings
Energy ministry Beis has unveiled plans to decarbonise Britain’s homes and public buildings, releasing £44 million to trial low-carbon heat networks, heat pumps and...
“Expensive” insulation means one-third of UK homeowners refuse to plug Europe’s leakiest homes: PWC
Payback lags averaging ten years on the builders’ bills needed to improve Europe’s leakiest homes are putting the Johnson government’s 2050 Net Zero goal...