Whether you’re a homeowner, self builder, developer, landlord, or business, find the perfect ground source heat pump for your project with Kensa's heat pump solutions.
Kensa's design & support services coupled with a comprehensive range of ground source heat pumps ensure homeowners enjoy significant energy efficiency, bill savings & government funding.
Kensa’s ground source heat pumps bring social housing communities together to help eradicate fuel poverty & reduce heating bills. Using cost-effective Shared Ground Loop Arrays, housing associations can reduce carbon emissions on a huge scale.
Swimming pools, hot tubs, boat sheds, boats, water parks: you name it, we've fitted it! Ground source heat pumps offer an energy-efficient solution to heating & cooling water sources, as well as using water sources to heat & cool buildings.
Small but packing a punch, the award-winning Kensa Shoebox series produces temperatures up to 65°C. It features the quietest & smallest ground source heat pump on the market, offering an efficient, practical & affordable heating & hot water solution.
The efficient Evo series features 7kW, 9kW, 13kW & 15kW single phase models, & a 15kW three phase model. The elegant, simple-to-install, & ErP A+++ rated Evo series offers a 15% gain in efficiency & low noise outputs, perfect for medium to large homes.
The Kensa Q comprises of modular three phase models to provide tailored outputs for high heating & cooling demands, providing greater flexibility & compatibility with Building Management Systems
Installers are integral to the UK’s transition to low-carbon heating. Kensa is continually building a network of trusted, recommended and experienced installers across the UK.
Kensa offers a free, progressive and tailored training pathway for installers from all backgrounds. Start from the ground up or add to your existing knowledge whilst learning at your own pace.
Kensa's Partner Network recognises installers for their proven skills and experience with ground source heat pumps and offers exclusive member benefits.
Kensa has a nationwide network of trusted installers to help with your ground source heat pump project. Simply submit your plans and Kensa will recommend the right installer for you.
Kensa Heat Pumps is the UK’s number one ground source heat pump brand. We offer ground source heat pump training for trainers in training centres, sharing our extensive knowledge of ground source heat pump fundamentals and best practices with your trainers and students.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme is a government-proposed scheme to deliver grants of up to £6,000 towards heat pump installations in UK households. The scheme, which was known as the Clean Heat Grant, is intended to replace the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) from April 2022 to 2028.
The ECO supports retrofit efficiency works in the domestic sector with an upfront grant, with a particular focus on vulnerable consumer groups & hard-to-treat homes.
The Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme is a fund dedicated to heat decarbonisation & capital energy efficiency projects in non-domestic public sector buildings across England.
Through this scheme, an investor funds the network – known as Shared Ground Loop Arrays – to cover the most expensive aspect of the project. In return, the investor can charge connection fees if they wish.
The Government has demonstrated its commitment to decarbonising heat and buildings through policy and billions of pounds of funding. It has also recognised that highly efficient, low carbon heat pumps have a vital role to play in creating a cleaner, greener future for the UK.
A number of initiatives currently exist to incentivise the adoption of ground source heat pumps. Have a look at the heat pump funding and grants that could support your project.
Opened in April 2022 in England and Wales, the £450m Government Boiler Upgrade Scheme (formerly known as the Clean Heat Grant), offers households capital grants to replace fossil fuel heating systems with more efficient heat pumps that do not emit carbon when used.
Homes retrofitting ground source heat pumps will receive £6,000 when the system is commissioned, compared to £5,000 for air source heat pumps or biomass.
As this is a domestic scheme, there is a 45kW heat pump size limit per property. Social landlords and newbuild (except custom build) are not eligible,
Grant funding is available for the installation of heat pumps of up to £7,500, or £9,000 for households that qualify for a rural uplift. Additional funding can be requested as an optional interest-free loan.
Home Energy Scotland Grant and Loan – you can now apply for grant funding without taking out a loan. A rural uplift is also available to provide extra support to rural and island homes which can face increased costs to install home improvements.
Warmer Homes Scotland – you could get funding from the Scottish Government to make energy efficiency improvements, like new heating or insulation. The improvements offered will depend on a survey of the home. Assessors will come to your home to survey it and will recommend improvements suitable for the home, which could include a range of insulation and heating.
The Energy Company Obligation (ECO)
The ECO is a Government grant for retrofitting ground source heat pumps into social housing properties. It places legal obligations on larger energy suppliers to fund efficiency measures for domestic energy users.
The government’s response to ECO4 consultation sets out the policy of the scheme from April 2022 until March 2026. Please click on the link below to find out more about ECO4.
Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF)
This scheme intends to help new and existing heat networks to move to low and zero-carbon technologies. The fund is anticipated to run from April 2022 to November 2024.
Aimed at developers and investors in low-carbon heat networks, such as Shared Ground Loop Arrays, the objectives are to achieve carbon savings, increase the amount of low-carbon heat utilisation in heat networks and help prepare the market for low-carbon regulation.
The SHDF will upgrade a significant amount of social housing stock to an Energy Performance Certificate rating of C, with the fund expected to offer a potential £3.8bn overall.
Wave 1, which ran in the financial year 2021/22, awarded £179m of funding to 69 projects which will improve the energy performance of around 20,000 social homes.
Wave 2 opened on 29th September 2022, with application submission details to be published in October. The competition closed on 18th November and bid assessments for Wave 2 ended in December 2022.
Successful projects were notified in the spring and are now in process.
The applications will be worth £800m across three years.
The PSDS is a £1billion fund dedicated to heat decarbonisation and capital energy efficiency projects in non-domestic public sector buildings across England. Covering up to 88% of ground source heat pump installation costs, the scheme’s objective is to achieve significant carbon savings within the sector.
Eligible public sector bodies include:
Emergency services
NHS Trusts & Foundation Trusts
Further & higher education institutions
Local authorities
Maintained schools within the state education system
Nursery schools maintained by a local authority
Central government departments & non-departmental government bodies
Phase 3b of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme is set to provide £635 million of grant
funding over the financial years 2023/2024 to 2024/2025 – this is to be split with up to £402 million
for 2023/24 and up to £233 million for 2024/25.
It is clear there is both a need in the market and a desire from the government to support the development of schemes in this sector. However, with each funding round oversubscribed and short timescales to submit bids, projects need to be ‘shovel-ready’ to have a chance of success.
The application window for PSDS Phase 3b closed on 31 October 2022.
Stay in touch with Kensa to find out about further rounds of funding. Kensa has already assisted a number of local authorities and institutions to secure PSDS funding.
Contact us to discuss any potential schemes and we can support any application bids.
Ground array funding covers the cost of the groundwork for ground source heat pumps. Through this scheme, arranged by Kensa Utilities, an investor funds the network – known as Shared Ground Loop Arrays – to cover the most expensive aspect of the project. In return, the investor can charge connection fees if they wish.
Meanwhile, the developer or property owner benefits from a cheaper project, with all the efficient advantages of ground source over air source.
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