The Thermly Distress Diagnostics project aims to develop data analytics capability, intelligence, and associated web-based software to identify with relative certainty when households will need a heating system replacement.
Project Sojourner is an interactive tool that performs a comprehensive analysis of a property’s thermal efficiency without the need for a site visit, using this to provide personalised advice on energy-efficient upgrades and accompanying financial propositions.
Consumers have currently limited access to optimised heat pump operation due to a lack of heat pump-specific smart-controls.
Traditional heat pumps have limited compressor efficiencies and contain refrigerants with high Global Warming Potential (GWP) and Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP).
The project aims to improve lifetime performance and costs of heat pumps by using heat pump data to reduce friction between installer, customer and smart tech provider.
This project aims to create an innovative air source heat pump solution, designed specifically for the easy replacement of gas boilers in a cost-effective way, without the need for major internal home rework.
CUBEX will bring a modular heat pump solution to the UK market targeted at small homes and apartments, which are difficult to decarbonise with conventional monobloc outdoor Air Source Heat Pump systems.
Clear Blue Energy’s Flexible Heat Pump project is focused on evolving the conventional Vapour Compression refrigeration cycle for heating, delivering key benefits.
Deployment of heat pumps in mid and high-rise buildings is both technically complex due to internal and external space constraints and commercial difficulty, as well as to proportions of social housing within these buildings.
This project aims to deliver an innovative subscription-based model for heat pump deployment that eliminates upfront costs and simplifies the adoption process, making heat pumps financially accessible to a significantly broader range of consumers.
Achieving the UK Government’s target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028 will require a large scale and rapid increase in the rollout of heat pumps. In this blog, we will explore key learnings from Heat Pump Ready
The Heat Pump Ready Stream 2 – Wave 2 competition was announced by the Government on Monday 23 October. The competition is now open, and applications should be submitted online by 8 January 2024, 14:00 GMT. The Heat Pump Ready Stream 2
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 partner of the yearWondrwall Group – organisation of the year in
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. In this first episode of the Heat Pump Ready special
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 gauge the level of interest in potential new innovation support
The Heat Pump Ready team has revealed its programme of talks that will run throughout InstallerSHOW this month. The Heat Pump Ready zone at InstallerSHOW will showcase innovation that will accelerate the deployment of domestic heat pumps in the UK. The zone includes an
Heat pumps are now the new metric of success for sustainability, argues Jim McClelland. Heat pumps are everywhere — not in terms of actual installations, sadly; but with respect to mentions in the media and buzzwords bandied about in public discourse.
High Density Deployment stream will support the development and trial of solutions and methodologies for the optimised deployment of domestic heat pumps at high-density. Overview Heat Pump Ready, Stream 1: Phase 2 has awarded a total of £9,746,535.60 to 4
Combined investment from a private equity group and the government’s Heat Pump Ready incentive will be used to scale up production to meet European demand for integrated HVAC systems UK-based modular heat pump manufacturer Ventive has received a £2.5m investment
This project aims to deliver a data-driven digital platform that optimises the energy performance of heat pump systems, using AI software and sensing technologies, to enable automated control of heat pumps.
Thermly is an online property-level analytics platform, empowering customers with property-specific data to identify suitable opportunities for heat pumps, connect them with the supply chain and assist in installation.
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.
THIS is an all-encompassing integrated software package and app for installers to streamline the survey, installation and commissioning processes required when installing a heat pump.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This project aims to create a software solution to deliver a cost-effective property retrofit options analysis and verification protocol, enabling the offer of a financially insurable performance guarantee to homeowners and landlords.
Project MESH aims to reduce heat pump installation complexity and deliver higher system efficiency throughout the year by exploiting aggregated thermal inertia in a novel system design and thermal storage solution.
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.
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.
The aim of this project is to develop a green homeowner loan to pave the way for mass adoption of green home improvements, by developing a fintech platform specifically designed to fund heat pumps and other green measures.
The right sizing heat pumps project aims to reduce capital, operational and grid infrastructure upgrade costs through developing a tool to assess heating requirements, properly size, and optimise heat pump performance.
The Glow Heat Pump Community project will provide a data driven solution to reduce complexity and uncertainty for consumers whilst providing data, tools and resources for peer to peer installer support on decision making and upskilling.
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.
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.
GenGame are creating a full package Home Energy Management System (HEMS), using household data to identify heat pump potential, and support the sizing and optimisation of heat pumps.
This project will reduce survey costs by supporting heat pump sizing, providing homes with a personal net zero smart heat pathway using AI tech integrated with smart meter & thermostat data.
This project will allow Energiesprong to offer a seamless end to end comfort plan management service, which provides guaranteed heating outcomes for occupants in return for a fee which is no more than the total savings.
This project will deliver a digital solution to streamline heat pump pre-installation steps into one self serve remote survey, which will identify innovative heat pump solutions tailored to customer profiles.
This project aims to provide a scalable approach to heat pump financing and deployment via a Heat as a Service (HaaS) modelling solution, providing decarb pathways and financing models for households.
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.
The ‘Heat Pump Ready – Bridgend’ project is identifying viable deployment routes for clusters of homes to participate in heat pump installations, to help facilitate the switch to low carbon heating technologies such as air source, ground source and shared loop heat pumps.
This project aims to take a holistic and community-focused approach to heat pump deployment, based on a prosumer approach to energy generation (enabling consumers to both produce and consume their own energy) and engaging local communities to work collaboratively.
The SAPPHIRE Solo project will explore the provision of smart energy systems in homes in Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross that incorporate heat pump technology, battery, and solar PV. The project aims to understand the feasibility of aggregated installations for optimised management and generation of grid services revenues.
This project uses a holistic, place-based approach to heat pump deployment to establish local momentum and generate community interest for heat pumps, based on an “integrated stakeholder model”, bringing together several components of programme design and best-practice research.
Project Gaia in Teignbridge is exploring the feasibility of heat pumps connected to an ambient shared loop array, reducing the upfront cost of ground source heat pumps whilst ensuring higher operating efficiencies and maintaining consumer familiarity by following a similar business model to the existing gas network.
This project will utilise novel energy technology and retrofit packages using digital twin technology to appraise technical and commercial service models and ensure electric network capacity for a particular locality. The project aims to maximise local content by working closely with local communities and supply chains.
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.
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.
This project plans to bring together local authorities, distribution network operators, social housing providers and homeowners to find clusters of properties suitable for heat pump deployment, and examining opportunities to simplify the end-to-end procurement and installation process for the customer.
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.
This project aims to connect local communities in Oxford to local installers whilst removing frictions and costs from the current heat pump installation process. The project will work with local councils and finance providers to ensure heat pump access across the local community.
The two projects were awarded grant funding by BEIS under their Heat Pump Ready Programme EDF has announced two new projects to support customers transitioning to heat pumps. Both projects are supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under
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 heat storage functions and an app to improve system commissioning