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Heating is your biggest renewable energy opportunity – Heating accounts for around 60% of carbon dioxide emissions in your homes.

Use home Heat Pumps to provide a renewable & sustainable solution to your main target area for carbon emissions all year round. Tackle the area where you can make the biggest year round carbon reduction first, with a practical and cost effective Heat Pump system which reduces both carbon and your heating costs...

Step 2

Step 1 completed, now look at further use of sustainable energy – Use our experience to look at additional ways to practically use renewable energy in your home.

Now that your main renewable energy opportunity is dealt with, explore other ways to use sustainable energy, for example a Solar Boost system to enhance your home Heat Pump system.

Home Heat Pump use has increased dramatically over the past five years, this high rate of installations has been driven by environmental demand and also the fact that more potential users are becoming increasingly aware of the simplicity and benefits of Heat Pump systems.

Heat Pump systems are NOT new technology, Heat Pumps work on the basic principle of heat transfer and refrigeration which has been around since the 1800’s with the first domestic refrigerators developed commercially in the 1920’s. Refrigeration is the process of transferring heat form one area to another; in the domestic refrigerator heat is removed form the body of the refrigerator to make it cooler and “moved” into the kitchen or utility room in the form of heat energy.

Heat Pumps work the opposite way round to a refrigerator system, they transfer heat from an area where heat energy is available and move it into another area where it is used as valuable much higher grade heat.

So how can a unit deliver heat into a home when it is zero degrees C outside, the simple answer is that there is always heat energy in the atmosphere or ground even down to temperatures of -273 degrees C on the Kelvin scale which is determined as absolute zero degrees centigrade.

For example, an external “cold temperature” of zero degrees C is collected by the Heat Pump and transferred into the home as high grade heat, delivered at around 50 degrees C or higher depending on the type of unit used.

Yes, but you will have seen a different type of heat pump being used in commercial applications: shops, bars and restaurants or offices.
This will have been a unit with a condenser unit positioned outside and an indoor unit mounted on the wall or ceiling inside. This is a commercial DX (direct expansion) system which uses the same principles of refrigeration to provide heating or air conditioning, extracting heat from the atmosphere outside the building with refrigerant gas transferring the heat through the building between the outdoor and indoor units.

These systems are not suitable for domestic installations as they require complicated installations and use a larger amount of refrigerant gas than standard domestic Heat Pump system i.e. connecting the split indoor and outdoor units.
However a DeLonghi Air Source Heat Pump system provide the same benefits but are self contained and use water as the method of heat transfer rather than having refrigerant gas running through the property.
This means that the installation can be carried out by a plumber as there are no external refrigeration pipes to connect or fill with refrigerant gas.

An added benefit of this is that a DeLonghi Heat Pump can also provide an efficient means of controlling the temperature of your home throughout the year, simply add the Home Climate option and the Heat pump system delivers complete year round temperature control to any installation.
This delivers a very efficient system with a small carbon footprint i.e. a system that economically delivers both sustainable renewable heating and domestic hot water with the benefit of providing home air conditioning should you have a need for this type of requirement.