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GSHPA Annual Conference & AGM 2009

Making Heat Pumps the Technology of Choice;

Designing and implementing the policy framework to

realise massive growth

22nd June 2009

De Vere Harben, Newport Pagnell

AGM - 09.30 to 11.30

Welcomed by our Chairman Karl Drage, 36 delegates representing many member companies enjoyed update presentations from our Chairman, Chief Executive and Finance Officer

Conference followed the AGM with three sessions as below - please download the presentations as pdf's.

Session 1 - Massive Growth: the new policy perspectives

The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) - John Costyn, Assistant Director, Renewables Financial Incentives, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

Zero Carbon Homes - David Adams, Director, Zero Carbon Hub

Session 2 - The Build Environment: Ground Source on existing & new-build buildings

The  Retrofit Market: CESP, CERT & life before RHI - David Matthews, Chief Executive, Ground Source Heat Pump Association (GSHPA)

Scotland - a devolved nation perspective - David Cameron, Chief Technical Officer, Scottish Renewables

Quality in the Ground: The importance of good ground design and installation - Michael Moggeridge, Contract Manager, Magpie Environmental Drilling Services Ltd

Session 3 - Trading & Standards: The importance of maintaining quality in a growing market

Heat Pump Field Trials: Progress so far - Jaryn Bradford, Development Manager, Renewables, Energy Saving Trust (EST)

Heat Pump training and apprenticeships - John Pratt, Development Manager, Summitskills

Company certification: the growth of MCS - Mike Gibson, MCS Delivery Manager, Gemserv

 

Geothermal Live! - part of GeoDrilling 2008

30th April - 1st May 2008

East of England Showground, Peterborough

Sponsored by the Ground Source Heat Pump Association (GSHPA)

Day 1 - Wednesday 30th April 2008

Session 1 - How Ground Source Heat pumps fit into the Government's plans

Low carbon and renewable energy - developing a UK strategy to 2020 - speaker Caroline Season, Senior Policy Adviser, Low Carbon Energy, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (671KB)

 

Carbon Emission Reduction Targets (CERT) - speaker Dr Penny Dunbabin, Energy Efficiency Analyst, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (210KB)

Ground source heat pumps - a regulator's perspective - speaker Dr John Aldrick, Head Office of Water Resources, Regulation Manager, Envrionment Agency (41KB)

The Road to 2016 - using Merton to achieve zero carbon - speaker Jonah Anthony, Policy Director, Micropower Council (419KB)

Session 2 - Procuring and specifying a ground source heat pump system

Planning and contracting processes, a route map for developers - speaker Duncan Nicholson, Director Arup (924KB)

A building services consulting engineer's perspective of the industry - speaker Keith Horsley, Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers (2MB)

Working with drillers: The procurement, specification and commissioning of drilling services - speaker Andy Howley, Loopmaster Europe Ltd (890KB)

Session 3 - Applications for heat pumps

Heat pump case studies (new and old) - speaker Phil moore, Eco Heat Pumps Ltd (4.5MB)

Commercial open loop installations: best practice - speaker Iain Howley, Loopmaster Europe Ltd (1.3MB)

Open loop ground source energy systems - speaker David Whitaker, Arup (710KB)


Session 4 - Heating system design with heat pumps

Radiators and low temperature heating distribution systems - speaker Bill Bucknell, Chairman of the institute of Domestic Heating & Environmental Engineers (IDHEE) (199KB)

How to design and implement GSHP systems that actually do something about delivering renewable energy and carbon reductions - speaker Dr Robin Curtis, Technical Manager, EarthEnergy Ltd  (2.4MB)


Session 5 - Lessons learnt form the GSHP process

Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase II and its implications for the second phase of the Energy Efficiency Commitment/ Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) - speaker Mike Newell, Low Carbon Product Manager, E.on (598MB)

EST field trials for domestic installations of heat pumps - Speaker Jaryn Bradford, Renewables Development Manager, Energy Saving Trust (EST) (18KB)

Case studies of a large domestic application (1,400 homes) and large commercial application - speaker Guus Van Gelder, Co-founder, Groen Holland (3MB)


Day 2 - Thursday 1st May 2008

Session 1- Thermal response testing

Case study: installation of a 200m closed loophole for client BAA at Stanstead and subsequent thermal response testing - speakers Dr Gary Holmes Engineering Manager, WJ Groundwater Ltd (767KB) and Julian Hatherall, Associate (Hydrogeology), WSP Environmental and Energy (415KB)

TRT measurement facilities: advanced compact device for the in situ determination of geothermal characteristics of soils - speaker Professor Lyesse Laloui, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (701KB)

Formation thermal conductivity testing - speaker Alan Skouby, President of Geothermal Resource Technologies Inc. (GRTI) (891KB)

Thermal conductivity cell - speaker Peter Keeton, Laboratory Manager, Soil Mechanics (648KB)


Session 2 - Out of the ground

CO2 tubes - an alternative application of terrestrial subsurface collectors - speaker Karl  Ochsner, Ochsner Heat Pump Company (1.3MB)

 

Innovative ways of improving the performance of ground energy systems such as solar storage or snow storage - speaker Ryan Law, Arup (1.3MB)


Session 3 - The future of Ground Source Heat Pump Installations

Skills and research - speaker Dr Natalie Kruse, Research Associate, HERO Group, Sir Joseph Swan Institute for Energy Research, Newcastle University (1.6MB)

Eco labelling in heat pumps - speaker Rayner Mayer, European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) (112KB)

Successes and aspirations of the Ground Source Heat Pump Association - speaker David Matthews, Chief Executive, Ground Source Heat Pump Asscociation (26KB)


Session 4 - Heat exchange piles

Energy piles in the UK - Speaker Tony Amis, Contracts Manager, Geothermal Operations, Cementation Foundations Skanska Ltd (7.1MB)

Energy piles: The European Experience - speaker Alfons Ebnöther, General Manager, Geothermal Department, Haka Gerodur (3.2MB)

Experimental and numerical investigations of the behaviour of a heat exchange pile - speaker Professor Lyesse Laloui, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (2.3MB)




GSHPA Annual Conference & AGM 2007

'Installing Ground Source Heat Pumps'

4th July 2007, Milton Keynes

Over 100 delegates attended the above seminar, organised by the Ground Source Heat Pump Association (GSHPA).

The event was followed by the Association's AGM.

All seminar presentations can be downloaded as PDF files.

Welcome & Introduction (42K)

Karl Drage, Geothermal International Ltd and Chairman of the GSHPA

Industry Snapshot: Government Initiatives, Grants, Microgeneration Certification Scheme, etc. (100K)

Paul Rochester, BERR (formerly DTI)

Why Certification?: the new Certification Scheme, Installation Standards and Best Practice (714K)

John Holden, BRE

Training: what is available and what to expect (35K)

Richard Freeborn, Kensa Heat Pumps

Working with drillers: the do's and don't's, what to look for, questions to ask (271K)

Iain Howley, Loopmaster

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Launch of the GSHP Association -June 2006

 

GSHP Club Seminar 2005