Renewable energy

Renewable energy technologies like solar, air source heat pumps and ground source heat pumps offer an alternative to fossil fuels and can help reduce your homes CO2 emissions.

Solar Heating Worcester Greenskies solar panels

A typical well sized solar system should provide around 50-70% of the domestic hot water requirements of a home, representing a very worthwhile saving on hot water heating costs. The remaining hot water requirement is provided by the boiler.

The Worcester Greenskies solar panels are a perfect partner to the new range of condensing Greenstar regular and system boilers, with different models available in both oil and gas, which require a separate cylinder for the storage of hot water. When used together a Greenstar boiler and solar system provide a highly effi cient system to give heating and hot water comfort.

Ground source heat pumps

GSHP’s use the latent heat absorbed by the ground that is radiated by the sun daily no matter what the weather is doing above ground. Underground temperature remains constant, at around 12 degrees, and provides a reliable continual source of warm water which, harnessed with a glycol based GSHP system, gives a constant feed of hot water and heating into a property.

“Ground source heat pumps can generate four kilowatts of energy for every single kilowatt of electricity used”

GSHP’s are very effi cient ways of heating your home and are in excess of 300% effi cient. There are also more grants, feed-in tariffs and cash backs available for GSHP’s from various sources as it is a well established form of heating your home and a great long term investment.