Ground Source Heat Pumps

The Facts!

Ground Source Heat Pumps use the latent energy in the ground to provide you with low cost warmth and hot water for almost any type of property.
The Pump works by drawing on the natural , renewable energy in the ground and then delivering it to provide ample heating and hot water for your home. As it uses sustainable energy, it causes no direct emissions or other damage to our environment.

Features and benefits:
• Energy efficient – delivers efficiency of up to 400%
• Environmentally friendly
• Can replace the need for a boiler
• Significantly reduces your heating and hot water bills
• Ideal for use with underfloor heating or appropriately sized radiators

North Sea gas reserves are rapidly depleting. Current estimates state that these reserves will have run out in approximately 10 years' time. Burning fossil fuels, as we know, cause damage to the environment, and so governments, local authorites, businesses as well as individual customers are increasingly turning to nature's renewable energy sources as the was forward.

How it works

The earth's natural heat is collected through a series of pipes, called a loop. The loop is installed below the surface of the ground. The ground in the UK remains a stable 10 degrees at a depth of approximately 2 metres all year round and this is the heat that is used with this technology.

A fluid is used (a mixture of water and environmentally-friendly anti-freeze) to circulate through the loop in a closed system, this moves the heat from the ground to your heat pump. The indoor heat pump uses electrically driven compressors and heat exchangers in a vapour compression cycle, rather like how a refrigerator works, but without the harmful CFC emissions. The pump concentrates the earth's energy and releases it inside your home, delivering it to your radiators, underfloor heating and to the hot water tank. Apart from the small amount of electricity it takes to power the heat pump, all your heating and hot water needs will be fed from the ground around you.