2023 Unlock Net Zero live Awards winners – Mixergy & Wondwrall.

We celebrate the remarkable achievements of the Heat Pump Ready cohort at the Unlock Net Zero Awards. Congratulations to all the nominees – Q-Bot Ltd, Energiesprong UK and Build Test Solutions, and the incredible winners:  Mixergy Ltd – supply chain […]

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Podcast | The first episode of the Heat Pump Ready series with BetaTalk is now live!

BetaTalk – the Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating podcast – is hosted by Nathan Gambling and focused on amplifying the voice of talented engineers working to decarbonise our homes. […]

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Stakeholder Engagement – Informal Expression of Interest in Potential Future Heat Pump Innovation Support

1. Background As part of its stakeholder engagement on the needs and potential future support for Net Zero innovation, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) wants to […]

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Modular heat pumps for cell based microfactory assembly

Ventive are designing a modular heat pump which will integrate with home sensors to assess the home and adapt the system performance, optimising operations for improvements in energy efficiency, energy storage and flexibility. […]

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Two stage heat pump with greywater energy recovery

This project aims to utilise energy from greywater in a novel heat pump for retrofit in existing homes and new build properties, dramatically improving energy efficiency and cutting operational costs. […]

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EST MCS heat pump consumer journey

This project will develop a tool to assess property suitability for a heat pump and allow consumers to request installation quotes from installers, who will be able to accurately quote without site surveys, whilst still complying with MCS standards. […]

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Digitising the Customer Journey of Heat Pumps in Social Housing

This project aims to provide digital tools and monitoring to support optimal heat pump performance, reduce maintenance visits and simplify heating operation for residents in social housing. […]

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Archetypal heat pump retrofit for 175,000 non-trads

This project will utilise the Energiesprong approach to develop optimum standardised whole house retrofit solutions for four of the most challenging and/or common non-traditional home archetypes across sites in West Kent. […]

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Free heat pump home survey and design tool

Q-Bot’s simple and free-to-use app will help homeowners confidently match a heat pump to the thermal demand and other specific house needs. This can then be used by contractors to de-risk the installation process. […]

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Highly flexible storage heat pump (HFSHP)

This project aims to combine electrically driven heat pumps with heat storing batteries to shift heat production from times of peak electrical demand on the grid, enabling consumers to charge heating systems during off-peak periods. […]

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Heat Pump manufacturing automation for scale and cost

This project aims to redesign the residential heat pump assembly process and build a trial manufacturing assembly line, using state of the art analytical and physical tools to offer a systemic approach to optimised manufacturing. […]

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Guru verify for heat pumps: delivering best practice install, commissioning and maintenance verification tools to the heat pump market

This modular mobile app & web platform will verify heat pump system outcomes and store heat pump settings for future maintenance, also providing a training resource for new heat pump engineers. […]

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Guru smart heat pumps: developing tools for social housing landlords to enable heat pump installation at scale across the UK

This holistic solution will monitor & understand the context of a heating system prior to heat pump installation, to ensure units are correctly selected and sized, and provides ongoing tools to allow landlords to remotely manage their heating system. […]

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MEASURED: The role of measured building performance in heat pump

This project aims to optimise heat pump specification, design and management by using smart meters, low cost sensors and innovative new techniques to measure on site building key performance parameters. […]

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Greenwich thermal infrastructure motivating electrification (Greenwich TIME)

This project aims to deploy networked heat pumps distributed on a shared ground array with a familiar finance offer to existing services, thereby decoupling the large capital costs of ground-source loops from customers and enabling consumers to replace their boiler with minimal household disruption. […]

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Renewable heat infrastructure network operating system (RHINOS)

This project aims to reduce the lifetime costs of domestic heat pumps and associated infrastructure through the innovative deployment of shared ground arrays. An area-based approach will be taken to coordinate grid upgrades, deploy across private and social housing, and catalyse neighbourhood regeneration. […]

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Heat Pump Ready Newcastle

This project aims to target areas of Newcastle suitable for large scale heat pump roll out and identify areas where grid upgrades may be necessary. The project will develop a portfolio of consumer propositions including Heat as a Service (HaaS) to provide a variety of financial options that support heat pump adoption. […]

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24 projects to share £15m ‘Heat Pump Ready’ innovation funding

Millions of pounds in government innovation funding will be awarded to two dozen projects looking to address technical and skills barriers to heat pump use A heat pump with integrated […]

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