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Showing your heat pump some love with ACF50

Graham HendraMar 13, 202213 March 20220

Heat pumps and air conditioning units are subject to some terrible conditions, and I personally think it’s time to give them some love. Your heat pump lives outside in all kinds

It’s time for rural households to wake up to the government’s heat decarbonisation plans

Malcolm FarrowMar 10, 202212 March 20225

Most policy commentators agree that it makes little sense to install heat pumps in inefficient buildings. Yet that’s exactly what the government’s new Heat and Buildings Strategy proposes.

Innovative heat pump projects in Europe and the UK

MarsMar 7, 202217 March 20220

Join us for an incredibly interesting conversation with Thomas Nowak, Secretary General of the European Heat Pump Association, where we discuss the difference in installation numbers of air source heat

Why do we put feet under heat pumps?

Graham HendraMar 6, 20226 March 20223

A few weeks ago I bumped into two legends of the heat pump industry. We will call them Jon Bon Johnnie and Leopold. The names have been changed to protect

Weather compensation and heat pumps: the verdict

Graham HendraFeb 28, 202212 March 20223

I wanted to take a closer look at weather compensation and heat pumps and see what effect it has on the running costs of a heat pump. Excuse my questioning

Simple radiator sizing for heat pumps

Graham HendraFeb 20, 202224 March 20237

There is a lot of rubbish that’s said when it comes to radiator sizing for heat pumps. There shouldn’t be – it’s really not that hard. Back when the RHI

Why don’t we revise the subsidies to get people off gas?

Graham HendraJan 29, 202212 March 20222

We are all supposed to be moving away from fossil fuels and into renewable sources of energy. That ultimately means we need you to use electricity. Why electricity? Because it’s easy

This is not a throttle

Graham HendraJan 9, 202229 January 20224

We have all been there. You get home and the house is a bit cold. Someone (I’m not pointing any fingers) goes to the thermostat and winds it up to

Does having a heat pump automatically make you green?

Graham HendraJan 3, 20223 January 20220

If you have been watching the news over the last few months you might have noticed that electricity and gas prices have started to soar. Lots of people are panicking,

The Graham Hendra Awards

Graham HendraDec 20, 202120 December 20210

By now, if you’re a regular reader of my posts, you will know I’m a bit of an egomaniac so it won’t surprise you that I thought I would hold