The Government are practically to replace subsidies for fuel boilers. This is a large diversification that you need to take notice of

The Government are practically to replace subsidies for fuel boilers

. This is a large diversification that you need to take notice of

Government subsidies to replace oil or traditional electric boiling with heat pumps ignore the global heating impact of their HFCs, argues new analysis.

The UK's proposals for offering subsidies to homeowners plus businesses to switch from gas, oil together with traditional electric boiling to energy pumps has been criticised for ignoring the impact of their HFCs.

energy pumps appear like refrigerators but in contradiction, rather than aflame a fuel to create generated power they move heat from a low-temperature generated power source together with 'pump' it to a higher temperature where it can be used to provide central warming or tropical water in the same way as a domestic boiler.

The Energy Saving Trust (EST) has recently complete the biggest ever commonwealth of nations texploratory energy pumps, studying the performance of energy pumps at 83 sites (54 ground source in addition to 29 air source). Although it found a wide variation in performance levels in the trial, it concluded that heat pump technologies would save 'significant amounts of CO2 in the UK, when replacing oil or traditional electric heating.'

However, according to green analysts this fails to adopt account of the global heating effected by the hydroflurocarbon (HFC) gases used along with emitted by generated power pumps. HFCs are as much as 2,000 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Eric Johnson, director of Atlantic Consulting, which has conducted its own inspection into air-source heat pumps, said they had found that HFCs consistently add about 20 per cent to the footprint brought about by power-generation with emissions during the 15-18 year lifetime of the pump along with after its scrapping.

'On a lifetime "per kWh of delivered heat" basis energy pumps are about as carbon-intensive as natural fuel or LPG in heating,' he said. 'In countries with low-carbon electricity like Sweden heat-pumps tend to win over existing systems but in countries like the british empire with relatively high-carbon power generation then it is no make better than a gas heater.'

'So should you rip out your fuel boiler including replace it? No,' said Johnson.

While acknowledging leakage during manufacture along with disposal, the Energy Saving Trust say that barring a technical fault there should be no HFCs released during the use of generated power pumps. They said their heat pump study did not explicitly aim to measure or comment upon the potential of in-situ generated power pumps to contribute to HFC emissions through their everyday use.

Writing in the Ecologist, Johnson said his findings on HFCs were similar to alternative peer-reviewed studies that had been published by researchers at Delft University including Chalmers University of Technology in the past two years.

He said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had also estimated heat-pump leakage at 4-5 per cent ot its original fill of refridgerant per year in 2005.

The Energy Saving Trust said it was interested in the entire greenhouse fuel footprint of heat pumps, along with would be 'interested to sound in more detail at the findings of the Atlantic Consulting study,' according to renewables development manager Jaryn Bradford.

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