Renewable energy news from isoenergy

Traditionally, most closed-loop water-source heat pumps have been coupled to “Slinky” style pipework floated out across the body or water and then weighted down into place.

Isoenergy was approached in late 2014 by the building company R.W.Armstrong to provide a renewable technology energy centre for a large grade II listed country house in the Home Counties.

With the recent Paris Climate Change conference, changes to the feed-in tariffs after Christmas, announcements about the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in November and now a consultation about reducing the tax relief on VAT for installing renewable energy systems, it has been a busy and conflicting few weeks of Government policy changes.

Last month’s Government announcement of the new Feed In Tariffs for solar photovoltaics (PV) has finally given some clarity on the expected financial benefits of installing a new system in the future.

After the chancellor’s autumn statement last week, the policy briefing explaining the background to the headlines is starting to catch up.

It is now ten years since isoenergy started in business and during this time the company has established itself as a key operator in the provision of renewable and sustainable technologies to some of the great homes and estates of Great Britain.

All ground-source heat pump systems comprise of three core elements: the infrastructure providing the renewable energy resource from the ground; the heat pumps themselves; and the heat distribution system.

With the Paris Climate Change Summit at the end of 2015 and as the country continues to seek economical ways to reduce carbon output, a technology that has been a niche option is increasingly being investigated by building and energy managers.

Yesterday’s autumn statement by George Osborne leaves us thoroughly confused about where the RHI is going.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is a relatively small department, about 1/6^th the size of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, but with a complex task to do.