New BUS extension - £2500 Grant for Air to Air Heat Pump / Air Con units

wrf12345

Cold water showers are the way to go, help the NHS as well as much healthier for the body.

sheenas

matt_drummer said:

sheenas said:

Heat Batteries? Regulations for home solar batteries focus on fire safety, recommending outdoor installations like garages or utility rooms, away from habitable spaces and escape routes.
So on the back of that safety advice we can get a grant to install something that is not really recommend, don't these people talk to each other?

Before anyone asks it's been reported only this month the Solar & Battery Fires have exceeded the number of new installations for the first time. Agreed that is mostly due to poor installation & Maintenance but the recommendations should be carefully considered. 

Not what you think, they store hot water.

Maybe we are talking cross purposes, i was refering to the Fogstar Energy 32kWh Battery in the links above. Storing hot water is fine by me.

matt_drummer

sheenas said:

matt_drummer said:

sheenas said:

Heat Batteries? Regulations for home solar batteries focus on fire safety, recommending outdoor installations like garages or utility rooms, away from habitable spaces and escape routes.
So on the back of that safety advice we can get a grant to install something that is not really recommend, don't these people talk to each other?

Before anyone asks it's been reported only this month the Solar & Battery Fires have exceeded the number of new installations for the first time. Agreed that is mostly due to poor installation & Maintenance but the recommendations should be carefully considered. 

Not what you think, they store hot water.

Maybe we are talking cross purposes, i was refering to the Fogstar Energy 32kWh Battery in the links above. Storing hot water is fine by me.

You can't get a grant for those, they are not heat batteries.

QrizB

sheenas said:

Before anyone asks it's been reported only this month the Solar & Battery Fires have exceeded the number of new installations for the first time.

And before anyone else asks, that's not true.

There were 171 solar & battery fires in the whole 2024, from 1.7M installations. Of those 171, 94 were in domsetic premises. In contrast there were almost 100k new solar PV installations in the first half of 2025 (so you might expect 200k for the full year).

171 is quite a lot smaller than 200,000, and as a proportion of 1.7M installations is roughly 1-in-10,000.

They also found there were only 12 fires that started in a battery bank.

See stats here:

https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/eco-homes/solar-panels/one-fire-every-two-days-linked-to-solar-panels-prompting-calls-for-stricter-installation-checks

https://qbeeurope.com/news-and-events/press-releases/uk-fire-services-tackle-a-solar-panel-fire-every-two-days/

wrf12345

Does not seem to be any further details on how it works, other than needing MCS install according to Google AI (had me killed off in a motorcycle accident previously so...), supposed to be something mentioned in the budget but seem to have forgotten. As it stands, get an air-to-water heat pump for heating water and a couple of air-to-air units (driven off a single outdoor unit), should be covered by the two grants!!!

wrf12345

Seems that the £2500 will start next year and MCS have not yet worked out their accreditation scheme for A2A, so may be much later than the beginning of the year. If you want to keep costs down, converting hot water before applying may be an option - it will have to be signed off by a competent person or council, though, unless you have an old house and reinstall an old cylinder and claim it was there beforehand but I am sure no-one of this site would do such a "criminal" thing,