REHEAT – REA OVERVIEW REQ
REHEAT A
s great as they are, there’s a lot more to renewable energy than solar panels and wind turbines! Some of the best opportunities
for cutting costs and carbon can be found in renewable heat. Since 2011, the world’s been making payments to UK companies that use eligible renewable technologies to meet their heating and cooling needs. the scheme, including biomass, heat pumps, geothermal, solar thermal and biogas. Once a project is up and running, it though, as more projects come on-stream
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Any business or organisation that needs
space, water or process heating could look to renewable technologies instead of fossil fuels
Accommodation dwelling. This includes housing estates, social housing projects, care homes, nursing homes, students’ halls of residence, hotels, apartment blocks and so on. These sites will need space
CUTTING COSTS AND CARBON WITH THE RHI
Green heating for businesses, developers and landlords
and/or work in them. Solar thermal systems, biomass boilers and heat pumps could all do A solar thermal system would ordinarily be on the roof, a biomass boiler in a utility room, a garage or a small standalone building, air source heat pumps are usually attached to building walls, and ground source heat pumps can be drilled or dug into any social landlords to use renewable heating
District heating District heating networks typically use underground piping to carry heat generated from a central generator into a number
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