Heat Pumps Today

18 Colchester Football Club has been a vaccination centre during the pandemic and when a new heating system was required for the vaccination area, a Grant Aerona³ air source heat pump was installed to keep this essential resource up to temperature. Colchester Football Club go green February | March 2022 I N S T A L L A T I O N S Info wwww.grantuk.com/products/air-source- heat-pumps The grounds of Colchester Football Club in Essex have not only welcomed the Club’s home fixtures throughout the course of the season but they have also played a pivotal part in the Covid-19 vaccination programme. Initially, the NHS set up a temporary tent at the Club to enable nurses and volunteers to deliver vaccines to local residents, but the decision was later made to transfer the vaccine centre to a more permanent area inside the stadium. The concourse area of the grounds was selected as the suitable site, an area which had previously been used on match day for food outlets and consequently, it did not have its own heating system. A solution was therefore needed to provide heating to this concourse area. Local G1 Installers, Blueflame Colchester, were approached to identify and install a suitable and sustainable heating system for the vaccination centre at the Club. A renewable system featuring an air source heat pump was designed and installed. For this installation, the heat pump has been set up to provide heating only partnering with new radiators to ensure that the concourse area was kept warm to the desired temperature. The new heat pump was installed in the early autumn and it has since been operating to ensure that the concourse area and its vaccination hub remains warm, especially through the colder months of winter. Lord Callanan experiences Kensa’s heat pump vision at COP26 Energy and Climate Change Minister Lord Callanan was taken on a virtual tour of a Glaswegian street powered entirely by ground source heat pumps from Kensa – a British company championing replacing the UK’s current gas grid with renewable heating. Lord Callanan took time out during the Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day at COP26 to visit the Green Zone stand of Kensa Heat Pumps – the only heating appliance on display at the summit. Meeting with James Standley, Managing Director, Kensa Heat Pumps and Karl Drage, Director of Business Development, Kensa Group, Lord Callanan learnt about the company’s vision for decarbonising heat.