On the 12 June Enterprise Inexperienced awards in London, warmth pump specialist Kensa Contracting picked up the Renewable Power Challenge of the Yr accolade for its retrofit venture for Thurrock Council, which noticed Networked Warmth Pumps put in in 273 high-rise social housing flats.
Half-funded by Wave 1 of the Authorities’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF), the flagship venture, delivered by Kensa Contracting and Thurrock Council, noticed ageing electrical storage heaters throughout three tower blocks in Thurrock, Essex, changed with extremely environment friendly, low-carbon networked floor supply warmth pumps.
Since completion, the venture has reduce residents’ power payments by as a lot as 66%, lifting many out of gasoline poverty and enabling them to warmth their houses correctly. Changing electrical storage heaters, which price some residents hundreds of kilos a yr to run, with Kensa’s compact Shoebox warmth pumps can also be anticipated to scale back carbon emissions by 70%.
Networked Warmth Pumps encompass floor supply warmth pumps put in in particular person properties, whether or not flats, terraced streets, or new-build houses, related to a shared community of underground pipework. This offers every property with low-cost, renewable heating, scorching water, and cooling.
Putting in this answer in 273 Thurrock flats set a blueprint for utilizing SHDF funding to switch inefficient heating in social housing with Networked Warmth Pumps. From creating new inexperienced native jobs to offering the Council with a long-lasting renewable heating system, the venture delivered a number of advantages throughout the group.
With £1.2bn out there this summer time by way of SHDF Wave 3, social housing suppliers can apply for funding to make power effectivity enhancements of their properties, together with changing inefficient heating methods.
Talking in regards to the heating system, Thurrock resident Diane Barr mentioned:
“The warmth pump is way hotter, and the new water is so quick in comparison with the previous system. Plus it’s so low-cost – I pay round £21 per week, and that’s with doing the washing, utilizing the tumble-drier and dehumidifier. With the storage heaters, it price round £70 per week, and I solely used to have the heating on in three rooms, and the new water ran out fairly rapidly, so we couldn’t have a bathe.”
After receiving the award, Sustainability Director at Kensa Contracting, Ieman Barmaki, mentioned:
“It’s good for this venture to obtain the Enterprise Inexperienced Renewable Power Challenge of the Yr award. We’re extremely happy with this set up; it’s made an enormous enchancment to folks’s lives, it’s lowered power payments and given residents a heating system they’ll afford to make use of.
“Networked warmth pumps current a perfect answer to decarbonise complicated properties like high-rise tower blocks. We’ve delivered this renewable heating system to over 1,700 high-rise social housing flats, giving long-lasting advantages for the housing suppliers, the residents, the group and the surroundings.”
