• Bold plan sees only natural thermal spring in Wales become a renewable heat source for village school and bowls pavilion
  • UK-based Ground Source Heat Pump specialists, Kensa, have installed an innovative system that uses warm spring water to heat two council buildings
  • Historic Taff’s Well spring, once believed to provide medicinal properties, gets a new community role
  • The highly efficient open-loop water source heat pump system installed by Kensa is expected to cut carbon emissions from heat by close to 80%
  • It is the latest renewable school heating system retrofit project completed by the UK’s leading ground source heat pump manufacturer and solutions provider

A primary school and bowls pavilion in a South Wales village have switched to clean, renewable heating, but in an innovative way that cannot be replicated anywhere else in Wales.

Ffynnon Taf Primary School and the Pavilion at Taff’s Well Bowling Club in Taff’s Well, Wales, have had a bold new heating system installed by Kensa, the UK-based Ground Source Heat Pump specialists, that uses naturally occurring heat from the only thermal spring in Wales – the historic Taff’s Well Spring.

This unique water source heat pump system harnesses natural heat from the warm spring water, which emerges from deep beneath the earth at around 21C, to provide the two council-owned properties with low-carbon heating and hot water.

Using the innovative clean heating method instead of gas is expected to cut the school and pavilion’s carbon emissions linked to heating by close to 80%. It also demonstrated a way of using Kensa’s ground source heat pumps without drilling vertical boreholes to access heat energy stored in the ground.

Read the full article at kensacontracting.com

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