FAQ

Air source heat pumps use the earth’s free ambient energy to produce renewable heat energy for central heating and hot water systems. They were first built in the 1850’s with Lord Kelvin, suggesting the theory and then Peter Ritter von Rittinger building the first example. The modern heat pump can take its energy from water, the air or the ground; with the advancement in condensers and compressor efficiencies making them a major contributor to the micro generation of renewable energy. But not all heat pumps are made the same.

Eco Air Boilers are compatible with retro fitting to most existing central heating and hot water systems. They simply require plumbing into the system and an electrical connection. The efficiency of the system will depend upon the type of radiators or heating system in use, the energy saving measures existing in the building and the type of piping used. Global Energy Systems’ no obligation consultation and site survey will assess the best options for you. As an MCS accredited manufacturer and installer of our own heat pumps, Global Energy Systems can provide a full assessment, specification and installation service, ensuring that your renewable energy solution is tailored to your needs.

The size and type of property you are looking to fit an Eco Air Boiler on will affect the price of the installation and the potential running costs and savings. It is thus very hard to give an accurate estimate without some information about the property. As an MCS accredited manufacturer and installer of our own heat pumps, Global Energy Systems can provide a full assessment, specification and installation service, ensuring that your renewable energy solution is tailored to your needs.

Installing an Eco Air Boiler can save you up to 65% of your heating and hot water bills, but the size and type of property you are looking to fit an Eco Air Boiler on will affect the price of the installation and the potential running costs and savings. It is thus very hard to give an accurate estimate without some information about the property. As an MCS accredited manufacturer and installer of our own heat pumps, Global Energy Systems can provide a full assessment, specification and installation service, ensuring that your renewable energy solution is tailored to your needs.
By combining an Eco Air Boiler with solar panels, carbon emissions and fuel bills for heating can be reduced to zero by the creation of a Heat and Power System, removing your fossil fuel use and offsetting the electricity used.

Installing an Eco Air Boiler heat pump can save you up to 60% of your carbon emissions. This will vary with the nature of the building and the fuel currently in use. By combining an Eco Air Boiler with solar panels, carbon emissions and fuel bills for heating can be reduced to zero by the creation of a Heat and Power System, removing your fossil fuel use and offsetting the electricity used.
For more information, see Eco Home

The high performance Eco Air Boiler heat pump is a complete, delivered and installed system. It is delivered with a noise baffled Eco Air Boiler, designed and built in the UK, specifically for the UK climate and with a 25 year life span, an Eco Store water tank, designed specifically for the Eco Air Boiler and sized according to your requirement, an Eco Touch control panel to manage your system and three year’s subscription to Eco Link, to optimise and manage the performance of your Eco Air Boiler through your own personal energy management portal.

The Eco Air Boiler is an MCS accredited heat pump.

you will be paid on the eligible heat used from your Air Source Heat Pump and payments are made based on your EPC (Energy Performance Certificate)

With our specially designed baffles and low noise fan an Eco Air Boiler heat pump is quiet enough to site outside near windows or doors with units having been placed under bedroom windows.

The size of an Eco Air Boiler heat pump depends upon the model chosen. They typically take up about the same size as a modern two door fridge freezer and can be located in side passages, yards, gardens or on flat roofs. The space required for a wheelie bin is normally an adequate location. An Eco Air Boiler is a high performance heat pump, as such it’s designed specifically for the UK climate. This does not make it as small as some other heat pumps, but it does make it perform through a British winter.
For more information, see London Eco Air Boiler.

An Eco Air Boiler heat pump typically takes up about the same size as a modern two door fridge freezer and can be located in side passages, yards, gardens or on flat roofs. The space required for a wheelie bin is normally an adequate location. An Eco Air Boiler can be located indoors but will require ducting to allow this which will affect the costs of installation.

An Eco Air Boiler heat pump is in effect a fridge working in reverse and as such demands no more maintenance or servicing than a modern domestic fridge. This cuts out the need for gas certification or the servicing needed to ensure that fossil fuel burning boilers are safe.
With the Eco Link service, your Eco Air Boilers’ performance will be monitored and optimised for you.

Eco Air Boilers when designed into properties at build can offer significant carbon reductions and cost savings. Installation at build allows the full potential of the high performance system and building to the realised, Eco Air Boilers are listed on SAP App Q making specification simple. They are designed and built in the UK to offer up to 400% efficiency, generating up to 4 times the heat output of the electrical input, this is micro generation through renewable energy.

Air source heat pumps can play a major role in meeting carbon reduction targets and eliminating fuel poverty they also help to improve EPC ratings. High performance Eco Air Boilers can be scaled to deliver dedicated single property solutions through to district provision of heating and hot water. Retro fitting is simple and causes minimal disruption, fitting into most existing systems and allowing eco upgrades to be staged. They are designed and built in the UK to offer up to 400% efficiency, generating up to 4 times the heat output of the electrical input, this is micro generation through renewable energy.

Eco Air Boilers can be configured in series to create large scale, bespoke solutions for residential or commercial properties. They offer major opportunities in terms of both carbon reduction and maintenance and fuel bill savings against conventional fuels and are viewed positively by planning authorities. Under the current MCS structures they can be combined with existing combustion boilers to create bivalent systems, where the heat pump is backed up by the existing boiler in extreme temperatures. They are designed and built in the UK to offer up to 400% efficiency, generating up to 4 times the heat output of the electrical input, this is micro generation through renewable energy.

Whether you are looking for an environmentally responsible way of providing central heating and hot water for a young family, planning to reduce your fuel bills for retirement or designing an eco upgrade to make your home more sustainable air source heat pumps are an ideal solution. They are designed and built in the UK to offer up to 400% efficiency, generating up to 4 times the heat output of the electrical input, this is high performance micro generation through renewable energy in your own home.

The discreet nature of the units means that heat pumps are ideally suited to urban properties with limited space, remote locations, where planning restrictions apply or where properties or areas are protected. An Eco Air Boiler also offers an ideal solution for the year round running of a swimming pool.

Eco Air Boiler heat pumps have up to 400% efficiency, requiring as little as 1kW h of electricity for every 4kW h of heat energy generated. This renewable energy generation reduces your carbon emissions from your heating and hot water dramatically. To offset the effects of the generation of the electricity used, solar panels as part of a Heat and Power System are an ideal and allowable solution in the process of creating zero carbon homes. Any electricity generated by solar panels is eligible for the Feed In Tariff.

Though under floor heating is an ideal method of delivering heat to your property from an Eco Air Boiler heat pump, it is not a necessity. The effectiveness of any existing or planned radiators or heat delivery systems will be assessed as part of the no obligation consultation and site survey before we provide you with a quote for your new system.

As an MCS accredited manufacturer and installer of our own heat pumps, Global Energy Systems can provide a full assessment, specification and installation service, ensuring that your renewable energy solution is tailored to your needs.

Yes you will. The Eco Store Hot Water Tank is specifically designed to work with the Eco Air Boiler heat pump. It is provided with the installation and within the quoted price. A high pressure, un­vented Eco Store will normally fit within the space of an existing water tank.
As an MCS accredited manufacturer and installer of our own heat pumps, Global Energy Systems can provide a full assessment, specification and installation service, ensuring that your renewable energy solution is tailored to your needs.

Yes, the high performance Eco Air Boiler heat pump operates effectively down to -25°C and up to 30°C, all the units operating through the recent cold winters performed well despite the record low temperatures. This is due to the boiling point of the refrigerant used being -40°C; well below any normal temperature in the UK.

Unfortunately no, just as any other boiler an Eco Air Boiler heat pump requires electricity to drive
the central heating pump and thus would not operate in a power cut. The Eco Air Boiler is fitted with a failsafe device to provide hot water if the pump has a mechanical failure.

Yes, Global Energy Systems provide a comprehensive 3 year guarantee.

Yes Eco Air Boilers are MCS accredited.
As an MCS accredited manufacturer and installer of our own heat pumps, Global Energy Systems can provide a full assessment, specification and installation service, ensuring that your renewable energy solution is tailored to your needs.