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Enfield’s ambitious ground-source heating plans

Kensa Contracting has won a deal to deliver England’s largest shared ground loop heat pump system. 400 flats in eight council blocks in Enfield will be retrofitted with Shoebox heat pumps from Kensa Heat Pumps and connected to the largest collection of district arrays of its kind.

Planned for completion in October 2018, the heating upgrade is expected to result in residents’ energy bills falling by 30-50 per cent.

Dr Matthew Trewhella, contracting director, Kensa, said, “This project is an excellent example of how district heating can be rolled out using the shared ground loop system architecture. Shared ground loop systems can be featured in developments of just two properties (micro-district), while this project clearly demonstrates how the concept can be scaled up to much larger systems.

“Not only do ground source heat pumps provide the lowest cost heat, they also deliver substantial carbon savings, and landlords benefit from the exceptionally low servicing and maintenance costs.”

The district ground source heat network system at Enfield will feature 16 shared ground loop systems serving the eight tower blocks. Each district system will typically consist of clusters of eight boreholes serving individual heat pumps installed in the flats of half a tower block.

This system architecture allows each resident to select their own preferred energy supplier to access the best available electricity tariff. The shared nature of the ground array design also reduces drilling costs (typically the most expensive part of a ground source heat pump installation) and ensures funding through the Energy Company Obligations (ECO) scheme as well as the government’s Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), securing Enfield Council quarterly payments for 20 years.

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  • Vendor: Kensa Heat Pumps
  • Topic: Housing Management
  • Publication Date: 061 - January 2018
  • Type: News

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