Homebuilding & Renovating

GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMPS

Ground source heat pumps (GSHP use electrical energy in a highly efficient way to produce heat, significantly reducing heating running costs and CO2 emissions. While they require electricity to operate, they can also be combined with renewable electricity sources such as solar PV panels.

HOW DO THEY WORK?

GSHP use a series of buried pipes that extract the energy from the sun that warmed the ground. The heat pump then amplifies low

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