Projects

The Heat Pump Ready programme supports 45 projects across 2 streams: High-density deployment and Optimised solutions development.

Thermly Distress Diagnostics

Thermly

The Thermly Distress Diagnostics project aims to develop data analytics capability, intelligence, and associated web-­based software to identify with relative certainty when households will need a heating system replacement.

Project Sojourner

EDF Energy R&D UK Centre Ltd

Project Sojourner is an interactive tool that performs a comprehensive analysis of a property’s thermal efficiency without the need for a site visit, using this to provide personalised advice on energy-­efficient upgrades and accompanying financial propositions.

HomelyLifetime

Homely Energy

The project aims to improve lifetime performance and costs of heat pumps by using heat pump data to reduce friction between installer, customer and smart tech provider.

CUBEX

Mixergy Limited

CUBEX will bring a modular heat pump solution to the UK market targeted at small homes and apartments, which are difficult to decarbonise with conventional monobloc outdoor Air Source Heat Pump systems.

The Flexible Heat Pump

Clear Blue Energy Limited

Clear Blue Energy’s Flexible Heat Pump project is focused on evolving the conventional Vapour Compression refrigeration cycle for heating, delivering key benefits.

vTherm Hub

Vital Energy Solutions Limited

Deployment of heat pumps in mid­ and high-­rise buildings is both technically complex due to internal and external space constraints and commercial difficulty, as well as to proportions of social housing within these buildings.

Technology Platform for Heat Pump Subscriptions 

Fornax Energy

This project aims to deliver an innovative subscription­-based model for heat pump deployment that eliminates upfront costs and simplifies the adoption process, making heat pumps financially accessible to a significantly broader range of consumers.

Intelligent airsourcing to net zero

Wondrwall Ltd

This project aims to deliver a data-driven digital platform that optimises the energy performance of heat pump systems, using AI software and sensing technologies, to enable automated control of heat pumps.

Thermly

VIA Analytics

Thermly is an online property-level analytics platform, empowering customers with property-specific data to identify suitable opportunities for heat pumps, connect them with the supply chain and assist in installation.

Modular heat pumps for cell based microfactory assembly

Ventive

Ventive are designing a modular heat pump which will integrate with home sensors to assess the home and adapt the system performance, optimising operations for improvements in energy efficiency, energy storage and flexibility.

Heatly

Thormer Solutions Ltd

THIS is an all-encompassing integrated software package and app for installers to streamline the survey, installation and commissioning processes required when installing a heat pump.

Two stage heat pump with greywater energy recovery

Thermoelectric Conversion Systems Ltd

This project aims to utilise energy from greywater in a novel heat pump for retrofit in existing homes and new build properties, dramatically improving energy efficiency and cutting operational costs.

EST MCS heat pump consumer journey

The MCS Service Company

This project will develop a tool to assess property suitability for a heat pump and allow consumers to request installation quotes from installers, who will be able to accurately quote without site surveys, whilst still complying with MCS standards.

Archetypal heat pump retrofit for 175,000 non-trads

RJ Barwick

This project will utilise the Energiesprong approach to develop optimum standardised whole house retrofit solutions for four of the most challenging and/or common non-traditional home archetypes across sites in West Kent.

Free heat pump home survey and design tool

Q-Bot Ltd

Q-Bot’s simple and free-to-use app will help homeowners confidently match a heat pump to the thermal demand and other specific house needs. This can then be used by contractors to de-risk the installation process.

Performance

Parity Projects Ltd

This project aims to create a software solution to deliver a cost-effective property retrofit options analysis and verification protocol, enabling the offer of a financially insurable performance guarantee to homeowners and landlords.

Making efficient systems around heat pumps (MESH)

Mixergy Ltd

Project MESH aims to reduce heat pump installation complexity and deliver higher system efficiency throughout the year by exploiting aggregated thermal inertia in a novel system design and thermal storage solution.

Highly flexible storage heat pump (HFSHP)

Kensa Heat Pumps Ltd

This project aims to combine electrically driven heat pumps with heat storing batteries to shift heat production from times of peak electrical demand on the grid, enabling consumers to charge heating systems during off-peak periods.

Heat Pump manufacturing automation for scale and cost

ICAX Ltd

This project aims to redesign the residential heat pump assembly process and build a trial manufacturing assembly line, using state of the art analytical and physical tools to offer a systemic approach to optimised manufacturing.

Green homeowner loans

Home Infrastructure Technology

The aim of this project is to develop a green homeowner loan to pave the way for mass adoption of green home improvements, by developing a fintech platform specifically designed to fund heat pumps and other green measures.

Right sizing heat pumps

Hoare Lea

The right sizing heat pumps project aims to reduce capital, operational and grid infrastructure upgrade costs through developing a tool to assess heating requirements, properly size, and optimise heat pump performance.

Glow heat pump community

Hildebrand Technology Ltd

The Glow Heat Pump Community project will provide a data driven solution to reduce complexity and uncertainty for consumers whilst providing data, tools and resources for peer to peer installer support on decision making and upskilling.

Total home optimisation management (THOM)

Gen Game

GenGame are creating a full package Home Energy Management System (HEMS), using household data to identify heat pump potential, and support the sizing and optimisation of heat pumps.

AI smart heat pathway

Green Energy Options

This project will reduce survey costs by supporting heat pump sizing, providing homes with a personal net zero smart heat pathway using AI tech integrated with smart meter & thermostat data.

Integrated comfort and billing service

Energiesprong

This project will allow Energiesprong to offer a seamless end to end comfort plan management service, which provides guaranteed heating outcomes for occupants in return for a fee which is no more than the total savings.

Accelerating the heat pump journey

EDF

This project will deliver a digital solution to streamline heat pump pre-installation steps into one self serve remote survey, which will identify innovative heat pump solutions tailored to customer profiles.

Advanced modelling for heat as a service

City Science Corporation Limited

This project aims to provide a scalable approach to heat pump financing and deployment via a Heat as a Service (HaaS) modelling solution, providing decarb pathways and financing models for households.

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The Heat Pump Ready programme is funded by the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero as part of the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP). Research, collaboration and knowledge sharing is managed by the Carbon Trust with support from IPSOS and Technopolis.