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RENEWABLE SOLUTION TO OVER 1 MILLION HIT BY OIL PRICE RISES
The New Year is traditionally seen as a time for change and in light of recent figures released by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), this may never have been more true if you are one of the million plus people using oil to heat your home.
The world's First RHI now open for applications!
The moment we have all been waiting for has finally arrived as the world's first Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) launches to the Commercial sector.
Permitted Development Rights Extended To Cover Air Source Heat Pumps
Information published on the legislation.gov.uk website indicates that the rules governing permitted developments have been extended to cover the installation of Air Source Heat Pumps.
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Rock Village Hall
Ice Energy attends the opening of Rock Village Hall by Environment Minister Ian Pearson.
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Village Eco Shop opened by Prince Charles
Ice Energy MD Andrew Sheldon meeting Prince Charles at the opening of the Brockweir & Hewelsfield Eco Village Shop.
Village Shop of the Future
The Brockweir & Hewelsfield shop is made of green oak construction insulated with 10 inches of fibreglass, an infrared reflective layer and plasterboard. The internal floor area is approximately 160m² and has ground floor volume of 420m³ and first floor volume of 470m³ approximately.
The ground floor has a thermally insulated concrete base in which the heating pipes are embedded and the first floor has heating pipes between the joists.The heat pump was switched on 14th November 2003. A watt-hour meter was fitted later to record all the electricity used by the heat pump including all the circulating pumps involved in the complete system.
During the period 20 Dec 03 to 28 Feb 04 (72 days), the total consumption was 2012 units, an average of 27.9 units per day. This is despite many days when the doors had been left open as work on the shop was still in progress. Some days even the windows had been left open when plaster on the walls was drying.The performance of the ground source heat pump was very satisfactory and maintained a ground floor air temperature within +/- 2°C in spite of opening doors and windows. The shop's projected electricity consumption by the heat pump for 2004 was approximately 6000 kWh.
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