But the main priority, it concludes, is to electrify the heating of the UK's 29 million or so homes. As Sir John Armitt, chair of the NIC told me with a smile: "It's literally all hands to the pumps, in this case the heat pumps!" The main reason, according...
Plans to offer a greater variety of grant funding to encourage the uptake of heat pumps is included among UK Government proposals to reform its Boiler upgrade scheme (BUS) incentive. A new consultation was launched in August that considers revising some of the main requirements for obtaining ...
Business and energy minister Lord Callanan says the UK's planned transition to lowcarbon heat systems will be a "gradual transformation" rather than a more drastic revolution in the industry. The minister (pictured right) said that low-carbon systems such as heat pumps are a fledgling industry...
such as the grant of independence, revolution, defeat in war, or complete collapse of the previous system of government. None of these things have happened to the UK, which is why it has never had cause to codify its constitution.” ...
announced that a third allocation of tariff guarantees will open for non-domestic applicants in July, to stimulate more investment in the sector. The domestic RHI will close and bereplacedby the Clean Heat Grant, providing grants of up to £4k for households to install heat pumps, from ...
I never saw how it could be green to make us dump our gas boilers long before they have worn out, given the amount of energy it would take to replace them with Heat pumps. The energy policy priority I am urging is to secure the construction of some more electricity capacity before ...
aFor instance, there are many ground water heat pumps applied in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning province, however, there is no monitoring system to monitor the condition of the ground water, and the owners or the government departments do know about the ground water and soil or rock...
New Possibilities in District Heating with Gas Turbine Driven Heat Pumps of Large Capacity: Transmitted by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany11Prepared by Messrs. K. Knizia, A. Harms and G. Hirschfelder, Vereinigte Elektrizit盲tswerke Westfalen Aktiengesellschaft. - Combined Production ...
For many European countries the electrification of heat provision, via heat pumps (HPs), provides a promising decarbonisation pathway. The UK is no different, but recently concerns have been raised about the financial attractiveness of HPs given how, through various policy choices, taxes and ...
This chapter focuses on the role of the Japanese government and utilities in R&D of advanced heat pumps and protection of the environment. R&D on energy conservation technologies includes focusing on everything from software to hardware, covering every stage from fundamental research to practical ...