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Advinia turns up green heat with ground pumps

Advinia Health Care is to install green heating systems in multiple care homes in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint.

The operator of 35 care homes will remove existing systems powered by gas and oil, and replace them with zero-carbon ground source heat pumps (GSHP).

The GSHP system works by recovering heat from 130 metres below ground floor level, storing that energy inside 2,000-litre buffer vessels and then distributing it around the care home’s radiators.

By taking advantage of government grants, the upgrade is expected save Advinia millions in reduced heating bills and maintenance costs.

“The GSHP system allows us to achieve a number of our main objectives at once. We can reduce our carbon footprint, lower the cost of heating our homes and enjoy the benefits of a system with vastly-improved reliability,” said head of property services Darren Miller.

“The savings we will make on heating bills and engineering repairs to traditional heating systems can be used to enhance other aspects of our homes. We aim to redistribute the money into areas that will benefit colleagues and residents,” he added.

Advinia has partnered with installer Renewable Heat Generation for the project.

Work has begun on the first six of Advinia’s care homes to be fitted with the GSHP systems.

Installation takes between 10 and 12 weeks to complete at each home.

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