Joining the Renewable Heating Hub forums is completely free and only takes a minute. By registering you’ll be able to ask questions, join discussions, follow topics you’re interested in, bookmark useful threads and receive notifications when someone replies. Non-registered members also do not have access to our AI features. When choosing your username, please note that it cannot be changed later, so we recommend avoiding brand or product names. Before registering, please take a moment to read the Forum Rules & Terms of Use so we can keep the community helpful, respectful and informative for everyone. Thanks for joining!
SCOP
I’m curious to know what everyone’s SCOP on their ASHPs is. If you’ve been running your pump for a year (one winter and one summer) I’d love to know who has an annual COP of over 3.
Please pop your numbers below.
🔥 Britain’s Heat Pump Shitshow
How Installing a Heating System Became a National Nervous Breakdown
Free UK shipping.
📗 Heat Pumps Explained
A Jargon-Free Guide for Homeowners
Rewritten and updated for 2027
📘 From Zero to Heat Pump Hero
🛠️ Bodge Buster
New to heat pumps?
Take the Heat Pump Fundamentals course and use INTRO50 at checkout for 50% off.
I can only use the Carnot number from Emoncms HP app. Using the Carnot formula my number is 4.22. My total energy usage for the year 3634kwh. The "SCOP" number compares to previous oil usage of 1600litres/annum (16000kwh) and estimated energy usage from EPC and estimated energy usage from heat loss calculation.
How do you work out the COP some say its yield divided by consumption and others say yield plus consumption divided by consumption??
COP is heat delivered divided by power consumed.
So 100 kW / 20 kW = 5 COP
On my system (Vaillant Arotherm Plus 5kW hybrid system) it is showing from 1st January through to today, it has consumed 686 kWh and the yield is 3605 kWh, so a COP of 5.25, so happy with that, although the numbers are obviously a bit of a fudge as the boiler kicks in when the COP would be lower.
Our lifetime COP is 2.71 as we enter our fourth winter with this heat pump.
🔥 Britain’s Heat Pump Shitshow
How Installing a Heating System Became a National Nervous Breakdown
Free UK shipping.
📗 Heat Pumps Explained
A Jargon-Free Guide for Homeowners
Rewritten and updated for 2027
📘 From Zero to Heat Pump Hero
🛠️ Bodge Buster
New to heat pumps?
Take the Heat Pump Fundamentals course and use INTRO50 at checkout for 50% off.
Not sure if this has been posted. Theoretical but interesting.
We just had the first annual service. Ecodan R32 8.5kW as sole source for heating and hot water. Reading the numbers off the controller works out to 3.15 for the year. I was expecting lower because the hot water figure (captured on a third-party app called MMSPHeatPump) isn't great, even in summer.
- 27 Forums
- 2,790 Topics
- 65.9 K Posts
- 2,306 Online
- 7,195 Members
Join Us!
Installer Finder
Degrees of Separation
Latest Posts
-
RE: Review your electricity provider
@singlespeed I seem to remember that when I signed up f...
By Toodles , 3 minutes ago
-
Thanks for all the feedback. The pipework and radiators...
By JamesChatz , 2 hours ago
-
RE: Heat Pumps Without Grants: Would You Have Installed One & Will You Now?
Given the news that the BUS grant might get cut/reduced...
By Mars , 4 hours ago
-
RE: tepeo ZEB UK Support & Info Thread
@jamespa a ZEB is a variant of a storage heater in the ...
By wully , 4 hours ago
-
RE: [Update] Indevolt PowerFlex 3000: UK ENA Listing Status
Hi everyone, We’ve seen a few discussions and inqui...
By Indevolt Tech , 4 hours ago
-
RE: Passiv Smart Thermostat - Help & Forum Support
@singlespeed Good to hear it is all installed! We don't...
By Will H , 5 hours ago
-
RE: Cooling/heating with one unit
Long term, it may be more cost effective to get an A2A ...
By Rob of York , 8 hours ago
-
RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
Posted by: @editor I think we should make that approa...
By Rob of York , 1 day ago
-
RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?
My neighbour received an email from Anglian Water sayin...
By AndrewJ , 1 day ago
-
RE: Jokes and fun posts about heat pumps and renewables
Well the military is well known for going green, isn't ...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 1 day ago
-
RE: Why are ASHP installs so expensive?
I've ripped out over 11kw of storage and panel heaters ...
By Singlespeed , 1 day ago
-
RE: Safety study for plug in batteries out to tender - looks like Q3 2027 at best before legal
I think it may depend how much of the world is on fire ...
By EtchedPixels , 2 days ago
-
RE: Air-to-Air Heat Pumps & Air Conditioning: UK Heating and Cooling Q&A
I hope it's not the same people who make the awful TV s...
By EtchedPixels , 2 days ago
-
RE: Replacing Storage Heaters with a Heat Pump in a Stone Cottage
I found some interesting data about the price of heat p...
By Rob of York , 2 days ago
-
RE: PV and battery long payback - sense check query
Thanks for all the comments. I finally got to the bott...
By DavidB , 2 days ago





