Air Source Heat Pumps

The UK’s commitment to achieving net zero by 2050 is more than a climate target—it is a societal imperative. It intersects with the housing crisis and energy poverty, but recent assessments indicate that we are behind schedule. Meeting the sixth carbon budget and achieving an 81% emissions reduction by 2035, as recommended by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), will require bold action and financial innovation. Crucially, this includes transforming how we heat homes, as heating accounts for a third of emissions. The financial tipping point—when renewable heating solutions like heat pumps become not just environmentally preferable but economically accessible—is central to progress. Housing Association Magazine’s Joe Bradbury discusses:

It is essential to ensure that heat pumps installations in social housing performs as designed and with minimal issues for residents. Here James Griffiths Projects Manager at GF Building Flow Solutions (formerly Uponor) outlines how the correct pipework specification can help ensure optimal system performance, simplify installation and prevent future issues.

The UK has set a target to reach net zero by 2050 and with around 40% of the UK’s total carbon emissions coming from residential properties, a shift to low carbon heating is required if we are to meet this objective.

This solution combines the efficiency of a heat pump with the reliability of a traditional boiler, offering homeowners a sustainable and efficient way to heat their homes and water.

The Xtend Hybrid is designed to address the unique challenges presented by the UK’s diverse range of home insulations. While heat pumps offer an eco-friendly heating solution, they often struggle to meet the demands of less insulated properties, particularly during the colder months. The Xtend Hybrid bridges this gap by utilising a high-efficiency boiler to support the heat pump, ensuring homeowners enjoy uninterrupted comfort and hot water supply throughout the year.

Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions wowed the crowd at InstallerSHOW 2024 with its latest innovations, new partnerships, and significant investments in UK training centres. These efforts are set to revolutionise and speed up the UK's journey to Net Zero.

With 19% of the UK’s carbon footprint produced from energy used in heating, using gas boilers, Panasonic is leading the way in decarbonising existing building stocks with its renewable solutions.  The future of heating is here, and it's sustainable!

Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs) are a type of heating technology that absorb and concentrate heat from the air outside and use it to heat homes.  They are more efficient and environmentally friendly than traditional fossil fuel heating systems.

Optimism and excitement should be the order of the day. 2023 ended with an agreement at COP28 for a “transition” that should signal the “beginning of the end” of fossil fuels – the main driver of climate change. 2024 begins with high expectations in the UK of what can be achieved to get ever closer to net zero.

Mitsubishi Electric has recently conducted some research with IPSOS that suggests 7 in 10 people know little or nothing about heat pumps. 

On the one hand I find this really surprising because heat pumps have been in the press and across many forms of media in a MASSIVE way over the last
2 years.

The government have been pushing air source heat pumps and so has the industry. They are now regarded as one of the ecological and sustainable replacements for fossil-fuel burning heating systems.

But, on the other hand, with people being bombarded with so much information from many different directions about so many ‘alternative solutions’ to virtually everything, it is hardly surprising that they aren’t up to speed with air source heat pumps.