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Why data holds the key to better-performing heat pump homes
Ian Rose, managing director at Passiv UK, explores the growing role of heat pumps in the development of a low-carbon future.
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ith the Future Homes Standard set to drive the adoption of low- carbon heating and higher energy
efficiency in new homes, the UK’s housebuilding sector is under increasing pressure to deliver properties that perform as efficiently in practice as they do on paper. Heat pumps are set to play a growing role in this transition. Installing these systems, however, is only half the challenge. The real test is whether they continue to perform as intended once the home is occupied.
Too often, problems only come to light when a homeowner finds that their home isn’t warm enough or their energy bills are higher than expected. By that point, systems may have been running inefficiently for weeks or even months. Without visibility of what is happening inside the home, developers, housebuilders and installers are effectively working blind. As the industry prepares for the Future Homes Standard, remote monitoring
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is therefore becoming an increasingly important part of delivering efficient, high-performing homes with heat pumps.
New standards require a new approach to performance
The Future Homes Standard represents a significant shift in how new homes will be designed and built, with greater emphasis on energy efficiency and low-carbon heating. But meeting the requirements at the point of construction is only part of the challenge.
For housebuilders and developers, the longer- term question is whether homes continue to perform as intended once they are occupied. The performance of a heat pump depends on a range of factors, from system settings and flow temperatures to the thermal characteristics of the property and how the system is operated. Without access to real-world performance data, it can be difficult to identify when a system is
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