About this project
A circa £400,000 contract with research consortium from UCL, BSRIA, SP Technical Sweden for UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), £35,000 to University of Westminster, undertaken by Colin Gleeson, 2014–2017.
The RHPP policy provided subsidies for private householders, Registered Social Landlords and communities to install renewable heat measures in residential properties. Eligible measures included air and ground-source heat pumps, biomass boilers and solar thermal panels. As a result, around 14,000 heat pumps were installed via this scheme. DECC funded a detailed monitoring campaign, which covered 700 heat pumps (around 5% of the total) to provide data to enable an assessment of the efficiencies of the heat pumps and to gain greater insight into their performance. The data provided included physical monitoring data, and metadata describing the features of the heat pump installations and the dwellings in which they were installed.
Featured project publication
Gleeson, C. (2015) Residential heat pump installations: the role of vocational education and training in Building Research and Information, September, 44(4): 1-13.