GEOTHERMAL

100-year-old central London flats prove heat pump sceptics wrong

Edwardian-era social housing estate in central London gets upgrade with ground source heat pumps

At a historical social housing development in the heart of Chelsea, 81 flats fitted with ground source heat pumps connected to a network of 27 boreholes drilled deep beneath the estate’s tight, urban footprint

At a historical social housing development in the heart of Chelsea, 81 flats fitted with ground source heat pumps connected to a network of 27 boreholes drilled deep beneath the estate’s tight, urban footprint | Credits: Kensa

An Edwardian-era social housing estate in Chelsea, central London, is the latest ‘complex to decarbonise' building to get the renewable heating treatment, successfully busting myths about whether heat...

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