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Geothermal Heat Pumps

Heat pumps make a significant contribution to solving the problem associated with increasingly scarce and evermore expensive energy resources by using the freely available, inexhaustible solar energy stored in the soil, ambient air or water converting this for use in the heating system.

Up to 75% of the energy needed by the heating system is extracted from the environment, so the only running cost is electricity needed to drive the heat pump compressor. Put another way – for every 1kW of energy needed to run the heat pump, up to 4kW of useful heat is provided, giving the heat pump an efficiency of up to 400%.

Whenever fossil fuels such as gas or oil are burnt, carbon dioxide is released. CO2 is the principle contributor to long term climate change. As heat pumps extract up to 75% of the heating energy directly from the environment, their carbon dioxide emissions compared to gas or oil central heating system are reduced by approximately 50%.