Social housing: net zero progress report - quarter 2 2024

Project Title: Mackenzie Gardens’ Zero Emission Heating Project

Project Organisation: Grampian Housing Association

Technology Type(s): Communal ASHP system, Solar PV, Battery Storage, CWI, LITU

Location(s): Turriff, Aberdeenshire

Grant Value: £306,534

Completion Date: August 2022

Project Headline: Project involved 23 properties through the connection to a communal Air Source Heat Pump system alongside the installation of solar photovoltaic panels and battery storage, and insulation.

Project Description:

This project involved the installation of a communal air source heat pump system to supply low carbon heat to 23 social housing homes in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. Additional Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) were also installed as part of a PAS2035 retrofit program including Solar PV Panels, Battery Storage, CWI and LITU.

Solar panels were installed so solar energy can be stored (in battery storage) and used to reduce energy costs for tenants, with any excess energy been fed back into the grid or provisioned for use in other Grampian Housing Association housing stock nearby.

The installation sought to not only reduce carbon emission but to reduce tenants’ energy bills. In addition to the ECMs installed, a dynamic metering and billing system and thermostatic heat controls were also installed.

The system was also designed with the potential for adding additional properties in the future, with the ASHP system designed to allow heat pump modules to be added.