Renewable energy news from isoenergy

We at isoenergy pride ourselves on the performance of our installations. We design and install systems, especially heat pumps to the highest standards and then monitor their performance to ensure they are running as efficiently as possible.

Ofgem has announced that the price cap on domestic electricity and gas is to be reduced from October 2019. The latest cap will mean that households on standard variable, default or pre-payment tariffs will pay around £75 a year less, with an estimated 25 million households across the UK benefiting.  

International Energy Association figures released in May 2019 show that there were nearly 18 million heat pumps installed globally in households in 2018. This compared to a figure of 14 million domestic installations in 2010 shows a 29% increase in an 8 year period. This success, however, falls within the context that only around 3% of heating in buildings globally is provided by heat pumps and currently the main driving factor for installations in many countries is cooling rather than heating.

isoenergy continues to grow the business in the West of England and Wales. This good news means, we have decided to exhibit at the Listed Property Show being in Bristol on Saturday, September 21^st 2019.

On the 31st of March 2019 all subsidies for Solar PV were removed. This move by the government has resulted in many domestic households with Solar PV providing electricity to the grid without compensation. The government have responded to this situation with the planned introduction of the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) tariff.

We are often asked to provide the heating system for outdoor swimming pools, either from a ground source heat pump that is being installed to heat the house, or from a dedicated air source heat pump.  Pools in the UK climate generally need heating to reach a comfortable temperature of about 28^oC reliably in all but the hottest periods of the year.

isoenergy is very pleased to welcome two new staff members to the consultancy team. These latest members of the team will help improve our offering to our existing client base and new prospective clients.

On the 12^th June 2019 the UK pushed greenhouse gas emission reduction to the forefront of public consciousness with the government announcing that Britain would be “net zero” by 2050. This historic announcement sets a far more ambitious goal than the previous target that proposed an 80% reduction by the same year.

“Right now, we’re facing our gravest threat in thousands of years: climate change”. These were the words of David Attenborough at the start of his recent documentary; Climate Change – The facts.

We are now three weeks into our installation at Glyn Cywarch and the project is starting to take shape.