Ep6 Social Housing: Leading the way to net-zero

Serious about sustainability

English - October 08, 2020 08:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MB
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In this episode, Max Halliwell from Ecodan talks to Rob Hicks, Innovation Manager at Sovereign Housing Association. They discuss how the social housing sector and Sovereign, in particular, are playing a key role in reducing carbon emissions from home heating, by installing sustainable technologies for both new build and retrofit applications. Rob discusses a Sovereign Housing Association case study, where they were able to reduce resident heating bills by over 50% when switching to Ecodan, air-source heat pumps. They improved resident 'warmth ratings' – moving from, one out of five, to five out of five, and also reduced CO2 tonnage from 4.5 tonnes down to 1.8 tonnes (per property).

01:36 / Sovereign's approach to net-zero
02:28 / Air Source – the perfect match for off-gas grid
04:30 / Moving homes up to band C and beyond
06:38 / Reducing heating bills by over 50%
07:10 / Improving warmth ratings & reducing CO2 tonnage
08:02 / The Clean Homes Grant – the RHI replacement
10:27 / The Green Homes Grant
11:56 / Mitsubishi Electric Ecodan
12:25 / Sustainable heating technologies – the way forward
14:33 / The 2050 'Road Map' – 'Future Homes Standard'
18:26 / Social housing – leading the way to net-zero