The MCS-approved Aerona³ is Grant UK’s third generation inverter driven air to water heat pump, with an ErP rating of A++. 

The Aerona³ offers three outputs, 6kW, 10kW and 16kW, and combines design features such as weather compensation controls and a base tray heating element to prevent ice formation in cold weather conditions.

It is aimed at incorporating renewable technologies into properties when space is at a premium. Grant promises easy installation and maintenance for both installers and end users and the Aerona³ comes with a 5-year guarantee (subject to T&C’s) when fitted by an approved installer.

The company says the units boast an impressive Seasonal Coefficient of Performance (SCOP) even when external temperatures drop as low as -20°C. The HPID6 model produces 6kW at a SCOP of over 4 when tested at low temperature and average climate conditions. This means, for every kilowatt (kW) of energy used to run the heat pump over 4kW of energy is being given to the heating system in return.

The output from the Aerona³ will modulate down or up depending on the climate conditions and the demand on the heating system.

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A luxury housing development amongst the dunes of Perranporth beach in Cornwall will use ground source technology from Kensa Heat Pumps to provide heating and hot water to the 40 apartments and homes.

Acorn Blue is building The Dunes on the site of a derelict hotel, with completion scheduled for June next year. The groundworks stage is now complete for Kensa’s Shoebox ground source heat pumps, which will be sited inside each of the homes to provide 100% of the heating and hot water for two apartment blocks, five coach houses and four beach houses.

Montrose Port Authority had a problem with their ancient oil boiler heating system which heated the organisation's office block.

Each year, the Scottish port authority spent £41,000 on oil and £51,000 a year on electricity to heat and power the building which is subdivided into offices for local oil industry businesses. 

Will Hawkins, Heat Pumps Today editor, visits a warehouse in the North East  for an exclusive insight on how NIBE  ground source heat pumps keep steel at the right humidity.

When you have to keep £15 million worth of steel at the right humidity for a nearby car plant, you need to think carefully about how you do it. Get it wrong and all that steel attracts condensation and becomes unusable.

That is exactly the challenge faced by the logistics firm AV Dawson  in Middlesbrough.  Their customer, TATA Steel, has an exacting client, namely Nissan, the car maker. Nissan needs steel to arrive in perfect condition to be able to use it.