A RYDE-based renewable energy company has secured one of the UK’s largest heat pump installations.
Go Eco Consultancy Co Ltd (GEC-CO), based at Rosemary Vineyard, has already started work on replacing old oil-fired boilers with sophisticated heat pumps at ATC Lasham airfield near Alton, Hampshire.
Heat pumps extract ambient heat from the air and use it for central heating and hot water.
In all, 400kw of air source heat pumps will be installed at ATC Lasham, a private airfield where aircraft are serviced. Around 250 people work at the airfield.
The pumps are De Longhi high-temperature air-source heat pump from Italy.
The £300,000 project, funded by a Carbon Trust loan, includes wind turbines to generate energy to power the pumps.
At ATC Lasham, the new pumps are expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 400,000kg a year. This will save £90,000 per year.
GEC-CO, set up by Conrad Gauntlett in 2008, is a Carbon Trust-approved supplier of heat pump systems.
The company designs and installs domestic and commercial systems. Further commercial contracts totalling 600kw will be started in 2010
For more information, visit www.gec-co.co.uk.