I hope so, I do alot of work in building decarbonisation. These options won't generally help things like the hard to treat houses or the serious retrofit costs for alot of stock. Essentially where they need serious insulation and ventilation upgrades to bring up to standard which can cost alot more than the heat pump and dispersion installation costs.
And for hard to treat builds like solid stone etc then higher flow temperatures than most heat pumps deliver so often alternatives are needed or heat pumps not in the cost range that are viable for domestic homes. The solar PV isn't great in Winter when we tend to need the energy more for things like lighting and heating (in some places). Smart, local level energy systems with local generation and storage are really needed to overcome things like grid constraints which are a risk to both heat and ev electrification . Any way happy Christmas !
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I hope so, I do alot of work in building decarbonisation. These options won't generally help things like the hard to treat houses or the serious retrofit costs for alot of stock. Essentially where they need serious insulation and ventilation upgrades to bring up to standard which can cost alot more than the heat pump and dispersion installation costs.
And for hard to treat builds like solid stone etc then higher flow temperatures than most heat pumps deliver so often alternatives are needed or heat pumps not in the cost range that are viable for domestic homes. The solar PV isn't great in Winter when we tend to need the energy more for things like lighting and heating (in some places). Smart, local level energy systems with local generation and storage are really needed to overcome things like grid constraints which are a risk to both heat and ev electrification . Any way happy Christmas !