Corporate Social Responsibility – Carbon Emission Savings

With the recent decarbonisation of the Grid, Interseasonal Heat Transfer can save over 70% of carbon emissions compared to using a gas boiler for heating.

Interseasonal Heat Transfer can save over 80% of carbon emissions compared to using standard air conditioning and chillers for cooling.

CSR - Reducing Carbon Emissions from existing buildings

Many large corporations would like to reduce the carbon footprint of their existing building stock, but are unsure how this can be done beyond attention to detail like increasing the insulation levels to reduce heat escaping in winter.

Interseasonal Heat Transfer can be applied to some existing buildings. This is often possible if the building uses air conditioning in the standard way, which is to use a large amount of electricity to "waste surplus heat" to the outside air in summertime. Depending on location and the buildings involved, ICAX may be able to reduce the energy consumption of air conditioning by "banking" the surplus summer heat in vertical boreholes in the ground.

In the winter heat is recovered from those boreholes via an ICAX Skid (which includes a heat pump) in order to heat the building more cheaply in winter – without burning fossil fuels.

Interseasonal Heat Transfer can now be used to provide on site renewable energy to heat buildings without burning carbon fuels. Interseasonal Heat Transfer captures surplus heat energy in the summer and stores it in a ThermalBank for release when it is needed to heat buildings in winter.

Interseasonal Heat Transfer also captures cold on winter nights, stores this in ThermalBanks™ in the ground and releases it to cool buildings in summer. Renewable Cooling is a more natural form of cooling with a much lower carbon footprint than the standard solution of providing air conditioning powered by electric chillers.

Interseasonal Heat Transfer™ is suited to some existing buildings and may be able to link in to existing heating and cooling distribution systems in current buildings.

CSR – Reducing Carbon Emissions from new buildings

Interseasonal Heat Transfer™ is ideally suited to well insulated new buildings.

Air Quality

Urban Air Quality is of increasing concern as high levels of air pollution, including Nitrogen Dioxide, are exacerbating health problems in London. The main sources of air pollution in London are road traffic and burning fossil fuels to provide heating. Use of Interseasonal Heat Transfer eliminates all emissions of polluting gases on providing heating – and cooling – in London. See Air Quality.

Renewable Heat Incentive

The RHI can transform the economics of installing renewable heat if used in conjunction with Interseasonal Heat Transfer™.

Please see: What IHT is.

See also: Retrofitting IHT to save carbon emissions.

Green Heat | Green Cooling | Green Energy Options

See also: Renewable Heat Incentive