Of the 11 projects carrying out deployment feasibility studies under Heat Pump Ready, four projects have successfully progressed to Phase 2 – mobilisation for deployment:
This project aims to connect local communities in Oxford to local installers whilst removing frictions and costs from the current heat pump installation process. The project will work with local councils and finance providers to ensure heat pump access across the local community.
This project will utilise novel energy technology and retrofit packages using digital twin technology to appraise technical and commercial service models and ensure electric network capacity for a particular locality. The project aims to maximise local content by working closely with local communities and supply chains.
This project uses a holistic, place-based approach to heat pump deployment to establish local momentum and generate community interest for heat pumps, based on an “integrated stakeholder model”, bringing together several components of programme design and best-practice research.
This project aims to take a holistic and community-focused approach to heat pump deployment, based on a prosumer approach to energy generation (enabling consumers to both produce and consume their own energy) and engaging local communities to work collaboratively.
The following projects were supported within Phase 1 to prepare feasibility studies, however they are not progressing under the Heat Pump Ready programme:
This project aims to deploy networked heat pumps distributed on a shared ground array with a familiar finance offer to existing services, thereby decoupling the large capital costs of ground-source loops from customers and enabling consumers to replace their boiler with minimal household disruption.
The ‘Heat Pump Ready – Bridgend’ project is identifying viable deployment routes for clusters of homes to participate in heat pump installations, to help facilitate the switch to low carbon heating technologies such as air source, ground source and shared loop heat pumps.
This project aims to target areas of Newcastle suitable for large scale heat pump roll out and identify areas where grid upgrades may be necessary. The project will develop a portfolio of consumer propositions including Heat as a Service (HaaS) to provide a variety of financial options that support heat pump adoption.
Project Gaia in Teignbridge is exploring the feasibility of heat pumps connected to an ambient shared loop array, reducing the upfront cost of ground source heat pumps whilst ensuring higher operating efficiencies and maintaining consumer familiarity by following a similar business model to the existing gas network.
This project aims to reduce the lifetime costs of domestic heat pumps and associated infrastructure through the innovative deployment of shared ground arrays. An area-based approach will be taken to coordinate grid upgrades, deploy across private and social housing, and catalyse neighbourhood regeneration.
The SAPPHIRE Solo project will explore the provision of smart energy systems in homes in Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross that incorporate heat pump technology, battery, and solar PV. The project aims to understand the feasibility of aggregated installations for optimised management and generation of grid services revenues.
This project plans to bring together local authorities, distribution network operators, social housing providers and homeowners to find clusters of properties suitable for heat pump deployment, and examining opportunities to simplify the end-to-end procurement and installation process for the customer.
