Jon Selman and Dan Turner from Plymouth Energy Community to discuss combining solar energy and heat pumps, and whether this could be the future of residential heating.
In the United Kingdom, the biggest energy use comes from heating, exceeding transport and electricity generation.
Heating our homes, businesses and industry accounts for 46 per cent of all the energy used in the UK. In order to reach net zero by 2050, we need to re-think the way we heat our homes and businesses.
The SunPeople project aims to explore combining solar energy and heat pumps as a zero carbon heating solution.
Plymouth Energy Community is working alongside Plymouth City Council in SunPeople, which is co-funded by the Interreg France (Channel) England programme, a project financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
It was set up to foster economic development in the south of the UK and north of France by funding innovative projects which have a sustainable cross-border benefit in the programme’s eligible regions.
It is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.Plymouth Energy Community