heat pumps

Heat pump technology works in a very different way to boiler-based heating systems. This means that when it is being retrofitted into a customer’s home, it is not a like-for-like replacement. Mark Wilkins, Technologies and Training Director at Vaillant, answers the six most commonly asked questions from installers who want to know more about how […]

Vaillant has launched a brand-new Customer Experience Centre, which was unveiled in an official opening attended by Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Helen Whately. Based at the company’s UK headquarters in Belper, Derbyshire, the new Customer Experience Centre will support both Vaillant and sister-brand Glow-worm, reinforcing the history of ongoing innovation right through to the […]

With recent announcements from Government about the decarbonisation of heating in the UK, the spotlight has been trained on the use of proven renewable technology such as that available from LG to provide our heating and hot water. The need to meet the new Future Homes Standards and the stipulation that gas and other fossil […]

New research for Baxi Heating shows an ongoing affordability gap between low-carbon heat pumps and traditional gas boilers. The UK government is targeting the installation of 600,000 heat pumps-a-year which would lead to a sizeable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the paper, commissioned by Baxi a provider of heating solutions, quantifies the ongoing higher running […]

Gas boilers produce twice as much CO2 as the UK’s gas fired power stations combined – but installers will continue to install them until they’re told otherwise. Phil Hurley – Managing Director at NIBE Energy Systems UK – explains why: Living in a warm and healthy home is something that many of us take for granted. […]