Heat Pumps and Solar Heat - The Challenges and Complexities of Installing Low Carbon Technologies

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Heat Pump podcasts I imagine a few and far between. This one likes to meet the engineers installing heat pumps, solar thermal systems etc. to see and understand the challenges which they face. Engineers are at the front line of installing renewable technology and have different vantage points to other cohorts interested in reducing CO2 emissions and reaching net zero targets.

01:25 Ken discusses how consumers are becoming more aware of the low carbon and renewable technologies available to them02:49 Leia from Your Energy Your Way chats about the RHI and whole house retrofit and the cost of a heat pump04:10 Rob from Solarflair education of heating engineers05:30 Nathan mentions how the gas industry has trained engineers and how high efficiency boilers are not efficient if on inefficient heating systems07:06 Leia - changing radiators for heat pump systems and the importance of rom by room heat loss calculations08:23 wet heating systems and how many radiators are oversized and perfect for low temp heating systems10:00 fabric first and the second law of thermodynamics10:35 heat pumps matching heat loss and insulation requirements. Hybrid and bivalent heating systems11:35 High temp heat pumps and MCS rules12:09 MCS accreditation and the struggle with DNO form filling14:00 DNO District Network Operators and Energy Network Association16:46 Concerns with overload and amps. AC and DC and Substations19:44 A 12kW heat pump does not require a 12kW electrical supply21:06 COP goes down in the winter, low temp heating systems and heat calculations24:11 Solar heat and solar thermal hybrid heating systems. Glycol stagnation and refract testing26: 35 Integration of solar thermal with buffer tank and buffer size29:30 Airing cupboard and roof space for heat pumps and how solar thermal is more efficient than PV with small roof spaceSupport the show