Grant continues to support the deployment of renewable home heating technology across Ireland
For over four decades Grant’s innovative heating solutions have been helping to address the problem of rising energy costs and to reduce carbon emissions, whilst contributing towards a greener future.
The company, which is headquartered in Birr, County Offaly is at the cutting edge of sustainable and innovative product development and continues to adapt and expand its product portfolio to include a wide range of renewable heating technologies including air to water air source heat pumps, solar thermal panels, underfloor heating, hot water cylinders, aluminium radiators, and condensing wood pellet boilers.
A key feature in many new build properties including social housing developments, the Grant A+++ Aerona3 R32 air to water, air source heat pump is available in four outputs (6kW, 10kW, 13kW, and 17kW) and offers a superior seasonal coefficient of performance (SCOP) even at colder temperatures. This award-winning heat pump range has become a popular choice amongst property developers and local authorities due to its cleaner, more environmentally friendly performance, and ability to lower a property’s overall carbon footprint.
Heat pumps are being used most commonly as the main heat source in new build homes although they are also an efficient option for older homes which are undertaking a deep retrofit. Despite retrofitting numbers having dropped drastically in Ireland in recent years, the Government’s Climate Action Plan has a target to reduce emissions from the residential sector by retrofitting the equivalent of 500,000 homes and installing 400,000 heat pumps in existing homes to replace older, less efficient heating systems by the end of 2030.
To support the move to heat pump technology, Grant has diversified its education offering for installers, architects, engineers, and local authorities, to include CPD courses via its onsite Training Academy and online eLearning Academy.
Commenting on the company’s commitment to helping reduce Ireland’s carbon footprint in the home heating sector, Barry Gorman, National Renewables Sales Manager at Grant said: “We are delighted to be supporting many social housing projects, new build developments and retrofit projects throughout Ireland to help to advance the deployment of renewables. Now is the time to educate those in the heating trade as well as homeowners of new and existing homes throughout Ireland on the importance of choosing renewable heating technology, like our Grant Aerona3 heat pump system. Our heat pump technology can deliver a fully decarbonised, resource efficient home heating system, whilst also allowing long term cost saving and increased comfort.”
“We are delighted to be supporting many social housing projects, new build developments and retrofit projects throughout Ireland to help to advance the deployment of renewables.” Barry Gorman, National Renewables Sales Manager, Grant
Grant’s diverse range of renewable heating technologies work together seamlessly, to provide a fully integrated, efficient, and cost-effective heating system for a property.
Gorman adds: “When installing a heat pump as part of a retrofit, Grant Afinia aluminium radiators would be the most common choice heat emitter. Designed to work effectively with low temperature heating systems, the Afinia range pairs easily with our Grant heat pump range. For a new build property, many homeowners opt for underfloor heating as the heat emitter of choice. The Grant Uflex underfloor heating system also works effectively at low temperatures so is the perfect choice heat emitter to complement the highly efficient Grant Aerona3 heat pump in a new build, to conserve energy and make financial savings.”
Whether the Grant Uflex underfloor heating system or Afinia aluminium radiators have been chosen as part of a new build project or retrofit, it is important that both heating technologies are sized and specified correctly by Grant’s team of technical specialists. By submitting property plans and heat emitters of choice, property developers and architects can avail of Grant’s free of charge heating design service to ensure all chosen heating technologies are specified correctly in line with the property and its occupants needs.
In recent years, Grant has largely transformed into a renewable heating company with a portfolio including biofuel ready condensing boilers, condensing wood pellet boilers, solar thermal panels, underfloor heating, hot water cylinders, aluminium radiators, and air to water air source heat pumps. Grant’s innovative heating technologies are playing an important part in helping properties become sustainable as the journey continues towards achieving a zero-carbon future for Ireland.
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