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Arc Heatpumps offers an increasingly favoured solution for homeowners seeking efficient and eco-friendly heating alternatives: heat pumps. This innovative technology presents two primary systems:
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP): Also known as air to water heat pumps, ASHPs extract heat from the outside air. By absorbing low-temperature heat, it converts it into a fluid, which is then processed through a compressor. This process elevates the fluid’s temperature, allowing the heat to be distributed through the property’s heat emitters, such as radiators.
Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP): Similar in operation to ASHPs, GSHPs extract heat from the ground.
Our expertise lies in designing and installing comprehensive heat pump systems in Somerset & Devon. At Arc Heatpumps, we craft solutions tailored not only to meet your home’s requirements but also to optimise energy savings. Partnering with leading global manufacturers, we ensure top-tier quality in every heat pump system we install, providing you with an assurance of excellence when you choose Arc Heatpumps. Let us transform your home heating with our cutting-edge heat pump installations.
A heat pump is a low carbon heat source. It uses electricity to extract the heat stored in the air or ground, ‘upgrading’ it for your heating and hot water.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) supports the decarbonisation of heat in buildings. It provides upfront capital grants to support the installation of heat pumps and biomass boilers in homes and non-domestic buildings in England and Wales.
On Thursday 21 September 2023, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero issued a change notice in accordance with BUS Regulation 13(4) to increase the BUS grant level for air source heat pumps and ground source heat pumps.
Acting on behalf of property owners, installers can apply for:
Heat pumps use the refrigeration process to transfer low-temperature energy from the air or ground into higher-temperature energy used for heating and domestic hot water.
Even at outside temperatures as low as -20˚C, a heat pump can supply significantly more energy than it uses – and, with no local CO2 emissions, it helps reduce impact on the environment.
In order to access this free environmental supply an energy input is required. In a well-insulated property, every single kilowatt of electricity used to power the heat pump can provide up to 3 kilowatts of free energy. This ratio is known as the Coefficient of Performance (CoP), in this case the CoP would be 4, meaning the efficiency of the heat pump is 400% – compare this to a boiler at 90% efficiency and the advantage is clear.
Because a heat pump is at its most efficient when producing much lower water temperatures than atraditional boiler, it’s important to pair it with the right heat emitter: ideally underfloor heating or oversized radiators.
