Can I use a communal heating scheme?

Social housing developers are faced with a choice – installing a small heat pump appliance in each individual unit or installing a central plant with flow meter technology allowing separate bills for each property. Since the cost per kilowatt of output decreases as the heat pump increases in size, there are some obvious economies linked to the central plant option. In most cases, Kensa would recommend that two or three heat pumps were installed in any central plant configuration to provide some capacity control (ie. all heat pumps would only be working on the coldest days) and to ensure some output in the unlikely event that an individual heat pump fails in service.

The new CERT grant scheme can also provide significantly larger grants on installing a communal heat pump, over installing individual heat pumps.

Kensa manufacture a large range of commercial plant suitable for communal heating schemes and can provide help and advise whether this type of scheme is suitable for your development. Please contact Kensa for further information.