14 Heat Pump News
Sponsored by: Cold control helps UVEX beat R22 deadline
COLD CONTROL SERVICES recently helped UVEX SAFETY (UK) Ltd (a subsidiary of the uvex safety group) to upgrade its air source heat pumps and air conditioning equipment to beat the R22 phase out deadline on 1 January. Temperature control specialist Cold Control supplied a Daikin heat pump system throughout the Surrey site offices across two floors. This replaced the existing 20 year old system, improving
efficiencies and saving energy. Finance supervisor at uvex, Stephanie Chambers, said: “This is a significant project for us in terms of investment and will have a big impact on our working environment and employee wellbeing.” Cold Control provided a complete solution for uvex including an air conditioning system, replacement ceiling tiles, ductwork and cranes with energy efficient units to replace the R22 refrigerant. Cold Control’s managing
director, Mark Grant, commented: “There are a number of solutions available for businesses that use equipment still running on R22, but our advice is that the most cost effective course of action is to upgrade aging equipment to units with higher efficiencies and which don’t use R22.”
Stephanie Chambers added: “We are very pleased with the way that the engineers from Cold Control conducted themselves on site and the
way in which the project progressed. The engineers kept me in the picture with day-to-day liaison and caused minimum disruption to our working days.
She continued: “The contracts manager popped in on a regular basis during installation to check that everything was running smoothly and since
commission has made follow up site visits to ensure the set-up of the system is correct and that our staff are happy.”
Kensa Heat Pumps completes upgrades
KENSA HEAT PUMPS has successfully completed a substantial programme of renewable heating upgrades in partnership with four social housing providers using the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) funding stream and Domestic RHI, resulting in tenant running costs being halved.
Thanks to successful joint bids for government RHPP funding with Kensa, Westward Housing, Shropshire Rural Housing Association (SRHA), Ocean Housing, and South Holland District Council are all reporting reduced tenant running costs and energy savings, following the completion of an ambitious programme of retrofit renewable heating installations, covering 125
social housing properties throughout Shropshire, Devon, Cornwall and Lincolnshire.
Using the RHPP Fast Track and RHPP Reach Out Schemes, all four social housing providers collaborated with Kensa to undertake a complete upgrade of their heating systems to ground source heat pumps in off gas grid housing stock following feedback about problems with their night storage and solid fuel heating. Kensa’s RHPP schemes consisted of:
25 ground source heat pumps from January to March 2014 using the RHPP Fast Track scheme.
Association installing 38
ground source heat pumps under the Fast Track scheme between October 2013 and March 2014, and 25 ground source heat pumps under the RHPP Reach Out scheme between April and June 2014. ground source heat pumps under the Fast Track scheme with an approved extension on completion to June 2014. Council installed 16 ground source heat pumps under the Reach Out scheme between April and June 2014.
All properties in the RHPP programme feature individual boreholes ranging from 58m deep to 125m deep, due to variances in load and geology. Each borehole is connected to a 3.5kW, 4.3kW, or 6.2kW Kensa Compact
high temperature heat pump. Spanning flats, houses and bungalows, the four social housing schemes within Kensa Heat Pumps’ RHPP Programme will all earn an income for seven years through the Domestic RHI. All four Housing
Associations are reporting immediate improvements on tenant bills, with many reporting a reduction in heating costs of 40-50%. It is expected each property will save 110 tonnes of CO2 over the system lifetime.
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ACR News February 2015
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