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Switching on to solar heat. ☀️🌡🌍
The Earth Energy Bank: Award-winning inter-seasonal solar thermal storage for new homes.

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Our #ThermalEnergyStorage system, the Earth Energy Bank, will be powering these 47 homes year round. No need for gas. 🌱👍 https://t.co/BapETcvyCq @RHarrabin @theCCCuk

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@sicabc77 @betateach @planetkooler @swebster56 We’ve done some retro-fit. It’s slightly less cost-efficient as with most retro-fit solutions really, but as long as fabric is adequate it works very well. De Montfort Uni in Leicester retro-fit an EEB on their Forensics building and we’ve done others in London & Birmingham.

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@sicabc77 @betateach @planetkooler @swebster56 Hello! This is what we do - Earth Energy Banks. We started it in 2013 when we built a demonstrator house that was carefully studied by researchers @IESD - We now have homes nationwide heated year round by our system. You can see more about the tech here: https://t.co/b57lPFK2td

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@betateach @sicabc77 @planetkooler @swebster56 Thanks, Nathan. It is! I was actually going to get in touch with you to share a web brochure I've just put together. I'd love to get your views.

https://t.co/8DSJEoWzri

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@Your_Energy_YW @MixergyLtd Very exciting stuff!

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@Solaflair Great to connect with you, Rob!

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@eric_hawkins9 @PHAMNews @RobinWhitlock66 @betateach @s_calvert_heat @kenbone44 @Solaflair @RichMWPHS @Alonlineni @HeatCalculation Not sure there’s evidence of the grid “constantly failing”, but it may be tested.
On-site generation will certainly have a big part to play any smooth transition.

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@simonjenkins900 @KFiskPlumbing @betateach @eric_hawkins9 @MyHomeFarmUK @kenbone44 @DpawsonGas @_heatgeek @HighlandLtd @s_calvert_heat @Xtophe_Williams @NakedEnergyLtd Also in respect to increased efficiency - with well balanced ground storage it's three-fold.

GSHP's higher source temp also boosts its COP. And while conventional ground loop systems can deminish ground temp year on year, ground charging does not.

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@simonjenkins900 @KFiskPlumbing @betateach @eric_hawkins9 @MyHomeFarmUK @kenbone44 @DpawsonGas @_heatgeek @HighlandLtd @s_calvert_heat @Xtophe_Williams @NakedEnergyLtd https://t.co/bWqenN26Te

This should tell you a bit more. Hopefully it might be of interest! 🙂

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@simonjenkins900 @KFiskPlumbing @betateach @eric_hawkins9 @MyHomeFarmUK @kenbone44 @DpawsonGas @_heatgeek @HighlandLtd @s_calvert_heat @Xtophe_Williams @NakedEnergyLtd Hi Simon! We can provide PVT and are also very experienced at designing thermal ground storage systems. Our Earth Energy Banks have nationwide installations and just went into a 47 property development in Corby last year.

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Progress on an exciting new build in London designed by Joe Wright Architects. To be powered year round by our Earth Energy Bank #thermalstore - all heating and hot water requirements met by solar energy. #solarthermal

In collab with @carbonfreegroup

Video: Beam Development.

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@DrDavidSero @SimonWi96680130 Fantastic stuff! 🏈🙌🏼

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@ecorr_eu @eric_hawkins9 @kenbone44 Passivhaus comes at a cost also. There is an optimum cost balance between fabric and renewables.

There's still hot water requirements and need to warm the building fabric in winter. Air source is an option, but again costs and is less efficient in colder times of year.

[Eric Hawkins @eric_hawkins9]

@kenbone44 @caplinsolar uses the ground under there new builds, as a heat store from the thermal side of its PVT panels. GSHP then use this ground heat to heat the buildings, while the cooling of PV panels outside the depth of winter, increases efficiency to reduce running cost of GSHP

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@Dunc_O3 @kenbone44 Our system features the Earth Energy Bank - a thermal storage technology that features a matrix of shallow bores sitting within the footprint of a building - this store is charged with summertime heat from hybrid PVT - this heat is then drawn from the store in winter with a GSHP.

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Happy New Year from all the team at Caplin Solar! Here we are at the end of 2020. Most of us haven’t had an easy year, but there are definitely plenty of reasons to feel hopeful in 2021. ☀️🌍🌱

What are you looking forward to?

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@betateach @betateachpod @ThermalEarth @IESD @electriccorby We’ve also done two others in Warwickshire and Rutland, and another right now currently in build in Bitteswell, Leicestershire.

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How do we build a fossil fuel free future? Heating is the UK’s biggest source of carbon emissions. Solar is the most abundant energy resource on earth. Most of the sun’s energy reaches us in the form of heat.

#changeisnow #climateemergency #solarenergy #solarheat

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@betateach @betateachpod @ThermalEarth @IESD @electriccorby As well as three systems with @HAWKESarch - their Headlands, Echo Barn and Furrows projects...

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@betateach @betateachpod @ThermalEarth @IESD @electriccorby Hi Nathan, we’ve worked on a good number of projects together. @ThermalEarth were involved in 20 systems installed at our Corby development...

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@RoryStewartUK speaking on the @FuturebuildNow Arena stage about moving our cities toward zero carbon.