This page provides links to useful documents and organisations with further information on Ground Source Heat Pumps.

Guides to GSHPs

John Parker at Earth Energy Engineering has written a guide to GSHPs giving more details of the Powergen HeatPlant system - click here

Carrick Housing association have produced a leaflet explaining GSHPs to tenants - click here

Case studies

Drum Housing Association have installed GSHPs to flats and houses within their school fields development, click here for case study.

Penwith Housing Association pioneered the installation of GSHPs in existing properties, click here for a case study & photos.

Sign post Housing Association have installed GSHPs to 8 flats, click here for case study.

GSHP User Guides

Powergen and Earthenergy have compiled a user guide for their installations. Click here for a copy.

Denys Stephens of Penwith Housing Association created this user guide for Penwith's tenants at one of their sites. This guide is site specific, and is provided as an example of what might be done. Click here for a copy.

Presentations from previous events

East Ridings of Yorkshire Council Event
Arnout Andrews, ESD - please click here
Danny Hill, ERoYC, - please click here
Mike Newell, Powergen, - available soon
Brian Kennelly, EarthEnergy, - please click here

South Shropshire HA - Hereford Event
Robert Saunders, Marches Energy Agency - please click here

Mid Suffolk District Council - Stradbroke Event
Clive Taylor, HPS - please click here

Signpost Open Day
Arnout Andrews, ESD - please click here
Denys Stephens, Penwith Housing Association - please click here
Brian Kennelly, EarthEnergy - please click here

Further information on GSHPs

ESD, Penwith Housing Association, Earth Energy Engineering and GeoScience undertook a feasibility study in 2005 to investigate the potential for GSHPs in social housing. Click here for a copy of the feasibility report. Click here for a copy of the case study that was produced as part of the project.

The Hard to Treat group of the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes commissioned a study to help inform Local Authorities, Housing Associations, architects and developers about the use of heat pumps in the UK. Click here for a copy of the guidance including an explanation of heat pumps, their advantages and disadvantages, the different types of heat pumps and how and where they can be used most effectively. Full report to follow.

The Energy Saving Trust has information on GSHPs on their website - click here.

The UK Heat Pump Network develops and promotes balanced information and guidance on heat pumps.

The GSHP Club promotes the concept of using Ground Source Heat Pumps as an environmentally preferable means of heating and cooling buildings and acts as an impartial source of information about the ways in which this may be done.

The Heat Pump Association (HPA) is the UK's leading authority on the use and benefits of heat pump technology and includes many of the country's leading.