Solar & renewable energy
What this means for the nation’s housebuilders, landlords and homeowners in particular, is that the biggest target now is our gas-dependent heating systems.
70 per cent of heat for buildings, currently comes from natural gas. What this means for the nation’s housebuilders, landlords and homeowners
in particular, is that the biggest target now is our gas-dependent heating systems. The Government’s strategy document names this as one of the ‘Grand
Challenges’ to overcome, recognising that heating is the most difficult decarbonisation challenge facing the country. We still remain heavily reliant on the use of gas but continuing on this path
will simply not allow us to move to the low carbon future that we are legally obligated to achieve. The Government is working to develop a post-Renewable Heat Incentive
(RHI) strategy for both domestic and commercial buildings which will help reduce barriers to growth in low carbon heating.
TIME FOR CHANGE In the George Clarke article on our blogsite, he says it is time for a massive, systematic change in the housebuilding industry and the quality of homes that
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we build, but he also states that we literally don’t have the number of skilled trades to build the number and quality of homes we need. While that may be an issue facing the new-build sector, we also urgently need
to find easy ways to decarbonise the millions of existing homes, and this is where I believe we do have the technology, the skills and the infrastructure to make a difference. While there is no one single ‘silver bullet’ solution, monobloc air source heat
pumps do offer one of the quickest and most straightforward ways of reducing carbon emissions, house by house. Not only can they be retro-fitted to replace carbon intensive forms of heating
such as oil, gas or solid fuel, they can also be added to existing heating systems to work in a Hybrid approach, which can immediately help reduce both running costs and emissions. With our own Ecodan systems for example, they come with intelligent
controls which work out when it is best to use the existing heating or run the low emissions, renewable system, meaning that the household get seamless and reliable heating and hot water at minimum running costs and emissions. The scalability of heat pumps also means that they can be added to and we
are seeing more examples of blocks of them being used for district heating schemes, so the technological solutions already exist that can really make a difference.
Sharon Oliver is marketing manager for Mitsubishi Electric’s Ecodan range of renewable heating systems. For more information please visit
les.mitsubishielectric.co.uk/the-hub
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