Articles on Ground Source Energy
We publish articles on subjects of interest on ground source energy, and links to external articles.
The articles are listed, with the most recent at the head of the list, on the left.
They are also listed below under the following headings:
Articles on Heat Pumps
| Drivers for Heat Pumps | what is needed to encourage the market? | ||
| Upskilling for Net Zero | to meet the decarbonisation challenge | ||
| Expert Design yields Results | and pays for itself handsomely | ||
| Staying Cool with Heat Pumps | and saving loads of electricity | ||
| Turning up the heat | on ground source heating | ||
| Get Heat from Thin Air | using heat transfer instead of combustion | ||
| Open-Loop GSHPs | can be a good way to heat houses in the South East | How to Heat Rural Homes | without using combustion |
| High Efficiency from GSHPs | for both heating and cooling | ||
| Renewable Heating | can be achieved with ground source energy | ||
| Renewable Cooling | can be achieved by heat exchange with cold ground | ||
| Ground Source Heating and Cooling | can be achieved by heat recycling to and from the ground | ||
| Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage | The holy grail of the renewables industry | ||
| Misconceptions with GSHPs | unravelling the myths |
Decarbonisation of Heating
| Hydrogen for Heating? | Professor David Cebon's blog | ||
| Hydrogen Fuelled Heating | Cambridge professor writes to The Times | ||
| Absolute Zero Report | published in November 2019 by UK FIRES | ||
| Spark Gap | is the main barrier to decarbonisation of heating in UK | ||
| Time to abandon "Fuel Poverty" | in favour of "Heat Poverty" | ||
| Time to get serious on Net Zero | First published in HPV magazine, April 2020. | ||
| Combustion Free District Heating | First published in Energy World, April 2020, by the Energy Institute | ||
| Heat Pumps vs Hydrogen now | How heat pumps can help and why hydrogen can't | ||
| Coalition for Heat Decarbonisation | is needed now to kick start the electrification of heating | ||
| Climate Crisis needs Climate Action | before COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 | ||
| "Decarbonising heat is difficult" | unless you use heat pumps | ||
| Getting Serious about Net Zero | before 2050 | ||
| Stopping Climate Change | means stopping burning gas | ||
| Low Carbon Heat Market | Ten policy steps needed to get there | ||
| Road to Decarbonising Heat | using heat transfer | ||
| Decarbonising Cooling | a more efficient way to provide cooling | ||
| Decarbonisation of Heat | and Heat Storage |
Articles on the Environment
| Electrification of Heat is Easy | and enables heating without combustion | ||
| Natural Cooling | There is a cheaper way to provide cooling to buildings | ||
| Sustainable Energy | - without the hot air. Have you done the sums? | ||
| Energy Storage | is critical to balancing supply and demand in renewable energy | ||
| Urban Air Quality | Air pollution cost the UK £56bn in 2010 according to the OECD | ||
| Clean Growth Strategy | BEIS has published its Clean Growth Strategy, but postpones decisions on how to curb carbon emissions from heating |
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| The Energy Trilemma | can be resolved using ground source heating and cooling | ||
| Climate Change Concern | leads to enquiries about ground source energy |
Articles on District Heating
| Balanced Energy Networks | provide innovative clean heating without combustion | ||
| Advantages of District Heating | and an elegant variation which saves costs and carbon | ||
| 4G District Heating Networks | are designed to work at lower temperatures than CHP Networks | ||
| Burning hydrogen for heating | would emit six times the amount of NOx as burning natural gas |
Articles on the Road Ahead
| Infrastructure Investments | in groundworks yields good returns over the years | ||
| Ground Source Lobbying | The case for government to support ground source energy | ||
| Internet of Heat | combines technologies to recycle heat and save carbon | ||
| Demand Side Response | allows large users of electricity to earn income | ||
| DSR and Heat Pumps | is key to the electrification of heating and cooling | ||
| Integrating Renewable Technology | allows heat recycling and improved energy efficiency |