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ICAX specialises in Heat Capture, Heat Storage and Heat Delivery.
Interseasonal Heat Transfer provides on-site renewable energy: Economic Renewable Energy.
- ICAX- Interseasonal Collection And eXchange
- Interseasonal Heat Transfer is a complementary integration of Solar Thermal, ThermalBanks and GSHP
- Solar Thermal Energy is the source of power on earth
- Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage is used to improved the CoP of ground source heat pumps
- Energy Recycling is the key to economic renewable energy, saving money and saving carbon emissions
- Ground Source Energy can be accessed by Interseasonal Heat Transfer for heating and cooling
- Geothermal Energy the earth can be used to store heat energy
- Mean Annual Air Temperature is the key influence on the temperature in the ground
- IHT Systems Design using detailed thermal modelling to ensure a balanced system
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems How IHT works to save carbon emissions
- How ground source heat pumps work to provide Heat Transfer from the ground
- On site renewable energy – your options for beating The Merton Rule with microgeneration
- Renewable Heat – microgeneration without release of CO2
- Renewable Energy Directive of the European Union is the inspiration for the RHI
- Renewable Heat Incentive The RHI is a financial incentive to install a renewable heat installation
- Renewable Heat Installation provides heating without carbon emissions on site
- GSHP Installer – Ground Source Heat Pump Installations
- Renewable Cooling – at greatly reduced cost of electricity
- Schools can use renewable heat & critical period cooling
- Thermal Banks store heat between seasons in earth banks
- Seasonal Performance Factor is enhanced by using ThermalBanks
- Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage can be used to store heat between seasons
- Vertical Thermal Banks store heat between seasons
- UTES Underground Thermal Energy Storage stores heat between seasons
- Ground Source Heat Pumps performance can be greatly improved by starting with warm ThermalBanks
- Uses of IHT to save energy using microgeneration
- Low Carbon Buildings to provide natural heating and cooling
- District Heating is a system for generating heat at a central location and distributing it to buildings using heat networks
- Heat Sharing Networks – allow for heat transfer between buildings
- Schools can use renewable heat & renewable cooling
- Green Supermarkets can save energy by using renewable heat & renewable cooling
- Low Carbon Offices can save energy by recycling heat captured from heat recovery on cooling
- Low Carbon Hospitals can save energy by recycling heat captured from heat recovery on cooling
- Low Carbon Factories can save energy by recycling heat captured from heat recovery on industrial processes
- Swimming Pools can save energy by recycling heat
- Domestic Ground Source Heat Pumps Design and Installation
- Solar Roads clear snow – to save lives by reducing accidents
- Solar Runways clear ice – to keep them safe & prolong life
- New Build – IHT is ideally suited to new build
- Retrofit – IHT can also save carbon emissions where it can be retrofitted to use waste heat from chillers
- Consulting Services from thermal energy specialists
- ESOS Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme - energy audits that lead to energy saving and heat recycling
- Ground Source Heat Pump Installations using Interseasonal Heat Transfer.
- Ground Source Heat Pump Design is critical to achieving cost savings and carbon savings.
- Renewable Heat Installations using Interseasonal Heat Transfer.
- Awards for Interseasonal Heat Transfer
- Balanced Energy Networks use interseasonal heat transfer to balance the heating and cooling needs of buildings
- Decarbonised Energy Networks use heat sharing and heat pumps to decarbonise heating and cooling
- Heat Sharing Network Innovate UK award in conjunction with London South Bank University
- CHOICES Project SBRI award led by CEPRO with University of Bath and Eunomia
- Acacia Centre is shortlisted for British Construction Industry Awards 2011
- Energy Hub ICAX joins European project to research zero carbon communities
- Carbon Trust Award for Interseasonal Heat Transfer at Howe Dell School
- Creating an eco-school by David Casey
- Technology Strategy Board award for use of Interseasonal Heat Transfer in Social Housing
- Projects using IHT for microgeneration
- Cambridge Terrace
- UTP Factory
- Wellington Civic Centre Telford & Wrekin exceeds The Merton Rule by employing Interseasonal Heat Transfer.
- Tesco Greenfield Supermarket Tesco chooses Interseasonal Heat Transfer to save carbon and save money.
- Merton IGC Merton Council exceeds The Merton Rule by employing Interseasonal Heat Transfer at its new Acacia IGC.
- See Halcrow Yolles Sustainability Statement on Merton Community Centre.
- Suffolk chooses ICAX and commits to renewable energy
- Broadland Housing Association Interseasonal Heat Transfer in Social Housing
- HM Garth Prisonkeeps the heat up
- Hiroshima – evidence from the land of the rising sun
- Howe Dell School – the first building in the world to benefit from IHT. See Howe Dell Images
- Toddington cuts through the ice. See Toddington Images
- News from ICAX
- Ashden Awards 2019 ICAX longlisted
- Clean Air Strategy
- Heat Networks Investment Project
- Clean Growth Strategy outlines the carbon reduction plans of BEIS
- Owen Square Community Energy Project opens
- Paris Agreement on Climate Change is reached on 12 December 2015
- Solar District Heating Demonstration is funded by DECC's SBRI programme
- Bouygues chooses IHT for Cambridge Terrace refurbishment, Regent's Park
- UTP chooses IHT for its new factory at Daedalus Airfield, Fareham, Hampshire
- Water Source Heat Map from DECC
- Kingston Heights demonstrates water source heat pumps
- RHI Domestic News
- Ecobuild GSHP Seminar
- RHI GSHP Rates Double
- Snow Disrupts Heathrow and closes Heathrow for a week
- Energy Hub Progress on on site renewable district energy
- DECC rebalances FITs
- EST Heat Pumps Improve
- Acacia Centre is shortlisted for British Construction Industry Awards 2011
- Heathrow Winter Resilience Enquiry the Begg Report
- De-icing Runways with IHT at Heathrow
- Tesco chooses IHT to reduce its carbon emissions
- Wellington Saves Energy
- Energy Saving Trust trials Heat Pumps and finds poor performance from poorly installed heat pumps
- Merton chooses ICAX to exceed its own targets for on-site renewable energy
- Suffolk chooses ICAX for the new Suffolk One Sixth Form College in Ipswich
- Toddington results from TRL
- Royal Opening by HRH the Duke of Gloucester
- Award shortlisting for Sustainable Heating Systems
- Howe Dell School opens – an exemplar eco school in Hatfield
- Going underground to store heat energy
- Misawa licence for Japanese demonstration
- BBC News – shows Solar Road Systems from ICAX
- British invention of ThermalBanks
- Partners
- Strategic Alliance with REHAU to deliver ground arrays
- Mitsubishi WR2 link extends the reach of IHT
- Incentives
- Renewable Heat Incentive The RHI is a financial incentive to install Renewable Heat
- RHI Phase One for non-domestic buildings
- Commercial RHI 20 years of incentives for investing in renewable heat for commercial buildings
- RHI Tariff Degression RHI tariffs for biomass reduced following over generous initial levels
- Domestic RHI 7 years of incentives for investing in renewable heat for households
- RHPP Renewable Heat Premium Payment for homeowners
- Renewable Heat Incentive tariff tables and rates
- Renewable Heat Incentive tariff history and rate revisions
- Feed-In Tariffs The FiT is a financial incentive to generate green electricity
- The Merton Rule requires at least 10% on site renewable energy
- Green Investment Bank promotes the green economy
- DECC rebalances Renewable Energy Incentives following reduced costs for PV installations
- RED is the basis for the UK's RHI
- Fukushima Effect on the price of gas
- Exhibitions & Conferences featuring Interseasonal Heat Transfer
- All-Energy Conference – ICAX has been invited to speak
- Ground Source Live Conference – ICAX has been invited to speak
- Sustainability Live at NEC Conference – ICAX has been invited to speak
- REHAU Ground Source Workshop, Manchester – ICAX has been invited to speak
- Energy Solutions 2011 conference at London Olympia
- M&E - Building Services Event conference at London Olympia
- Ground Energy Conference
- REHAU RHI Seminar breakfast seminar at 26 Store Street, London WC1 – ICAX has been invited to speak on integrating Renewable Technologies
- Ecobuild Excel 7-9 March 2017
- ICAX seminars on IHT for architects and engineers
- Westminster Forum on Heating & Cooling Policy 11 July 2017
- Articles on Interseasonal Heat Transfer, ThermalBanks and Heat Pumps
- Clean Heating
- Fifth Generation District Heating and Cooling Networks
- Electrification of Heat implies the use of heat pumps to transfer heat from where it is to where it is needed
- Internet of Heat combines technologies to recycle heat
- Demand Response can be used to balance the grid by offering lower price electricity when demand is slack.
- Air Quality is becoming an increasing concern in the modern urban environment
- CP1 Heat Networks CIBSE Code of Practice
- CP2 Surface Water Source Heat Pumps CIBSE Code of Practice
- CP3 Groundwater Source Heat Pumps CIBSE Code of Practice
- Unparalleled performance efficiency is available from ground source heating and cooling systems
- The BBC discovers heat pumps are being used by The National Trust
- Sir David Attenborough meets President Obama in the White House to discuss arresting climate change
- Energy Storage Technologies
- Planning a soft landing for complex ground source projects
- District Heating Design
- Invisible Heating System
- Air Conditioning is expensive: it is an expensive way to achieve cooling
- Energy Hub Objectives
- Tesco Recycles Heat by Duncan Osborne
- Renewable Heat Incentive Options to save cash and carbon
- Telford Saves Energy by choosing Interseasonal Heat Transfer for Wellington Town Centre Redevelopment
- Eric Payne finds The Answer Lies Beneath Our Feet for seasonal heat storage
- Heat Treatment New methods of storing thermal energy by Ben Sampson
- Merton Rules Apply in the London Borough of Merton: Acacia Intergenerational Centre
- Clean Energy Cashback new government financial incentives to install Renewable Energy and earn money
- Natural Cooling beats air conditioning by working with nature to save energy
- Sustainable Energy – without the hot air by Professor David MacKay
- GSHP Breakthrough comes from integrating renewable technologies by Edward Thompson
- Complementary Forces Ground Source Live presentation at NEC
- Integrating Renewables by Edward Thompson
- Here comes the Sun by David Casey
- Renewable Energy Synergy by Edward Thompson
- Lessons Learnt by Ignacio Inda Caro
- GSHP Scotland presentation by ICAX
- Energy Efficiency in Buildings by Edward Thompson
- Working in Harmony by Carolyn Gilbey in The Guardian
- Britain's Twenty Greenest Buildings by Mark Jansen
- Turning up the heat in Britain's prisons by Claire Dodd
- A Playground in the Sun by Bill Holdsworth
- Banking on IHT by Edward Thompson
- Report on IHT by Derek Carder of TRL
- Pièce de résistance by Esther Walker of The Independent
- A Hidden Gem by David Kirkland and Kenneth Fraser
- Too Cool for School by Chloë Stothart
- Playground Power by Edward Stephen
- An education in design by Helen Raymond
- Going underground by Amanda Birch
- Sustainable Elements at Howe Dell School
- ICAX IHT hits BBC London News
- Team of thermal energy specialists
- Renewable Technologies used in Interseasonal Heat Transfer
- Air Source Heat Pumps perform less well than Ground source heat pumps in cold weather, but they are cheaper to install
- Asphalt Solar Collectors capture heat – heat recovery from road surfaces
- Asphalt Heat Rejectors reject heat – heat rejection from road surfaces
- Concrete Solar Collectors capture heat – heat recovery from road surfaces to heat ThermalBanks
- Concrete Core Tempering uses water distribution to control temperatures in concrete core structure of buildings.
- Ground Source Heat Pumps performance can be greatly improved by starting with warm ThermalBanks
- Advantages and disadvantages of Ground Source Heat Pumps highlights the need for good design and installation
- Heat Recovery Systems collect surplus heat - and provide cooling
- A Shared Ground Loop can collect heat from the ground for a number of buildings which each employ their own ground source heat pump
- ICAX Solar Road Systems collect heat to de-ice themselves in winter
- Solex Solar Roofing captures summer heat for winter heating
- Solar Runways keep surfaces ice free and open to air traffic
- TermoDeck provides high thermal mass to stabalise the temperature in buildings.
- ICAX ThermalBanks store heat between seasons
- Marine Source Heat Pumps extract heat from sea water and exploit the thermal interia of the sea
- Thermal Energy Storage is used to improved the CoP of ground source heat pumps
- Underfloor Heating is a good method for distributing heat into a building
- Underfloor Cooling is a good method for allowing heat to escape from a building
- Underfloor Heat Collector collects heat from a building (and provides free cooling)
- Water Source Heat Pumps can perform well if close to accessible water
- Surface Water Source Heat Pumps perform well if close to a body of open water
- Watertight Solar Collectors capture heat – heat recovery from flat roofs
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions on Interseasonal Heat Transfer
- Alternative Energy Glossary
- Heat Pumps Glossary
- How GSHPs work
- GSHP Costs
- CPD – Continuing Professional Development Seminars
- CDC – Carbon Reduction Commitment mandatory Energy Efficiency Scheme for large electricity consumers from DECC
- CDP – Carbon Disclosure Project
- CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility
- Research Links on Heat Pumps
- Climate Change - The Hot Topic
- Mean Annual Air Temperature is the chief influence on temperature in the ground below six metres.
- IIRCInternational Integrated Reporting Committee
- GSHP Standards should be followed by everyone installing ground source heat pumps
- Ground Source Heat Pump Association promotes Ground Source Energy
- Shallow Ground Source Standard from the GSHP Association
- Vertical Borehole Standard from the GSHP Association
- Thermal Pile Standard from the GSHP Association
- Shallow Ground Source Standard from the GSHP Association
- Environment Agency regulates open loop ground heat exchangers
- MIS 3005MCS Standard for ground source heat pumps
- Microgeneration Certification Scheme MCS is needed to get RHI on domestic installations of GSHPs
- Heat Emitter Guide is designed to stimulate a review of heat loads and emitter sizing for domestic heat pump installations
- Heat Pump Association promotes heat pump technology
- Contact ICAX, thermal energy specialists
- Your Project tell us about your project and we can help you win your bid.
- Delivery of IHT The delivery process
- Thermal Modelling A full dynamic thermal modelling exercise is included in delivery of IHT
- Thermal Response Test measures the thermal conductivity of the ground in a test borehole
- ICAX Skidis a platform for delivery of tested package plant
- ICAX Energy Management Systemcontrols the transfer of heat between the collector, the ground and the building
- Weather compensation heating controls increases comfort, reduces energy bills
- Ground Source Heat Pump Installation Costs: Quality is more important than initial cost in order to achieve a low "whole of life" cost
- Costs of Interseasonal Heat Transfer examines the costs and benefits of IHT
- Reduced VAT on IHT for domestic dwellings
- Maintenance and reporting
- Remote Telemetry aids monitoring and reporting on the benefits of IHT
- ICAX Strategic Alliance with REHAU to deliver ground arrays
- Glossary of Renewable Energy terms and options
- Ground Energy can be exploited by Interseasonal Heat Transfer for heating and cooling
- GSHPA Lobbying on behalf of the ground source industry
- Images
- Renewable Heat – from ICAX
- Pitched Roof Solar Collector – collects renewable heat for re-cycling
- Large Pitched Roof Solar Collector – collects renewable heat for re-cycling
- Suffolk One – Sixth Form College in Ipswich chooses IHT
- Merton IGC – The Merton Acacia Intergenerational Centre's temperatures are controlled by the ICAX Skid
- ICAX Skid – The ICAX Skid manages heat flows to the ground in summer, and to buildings in winter
- HM Garth Prison – keeping the heat up
- Hiroshima – heat rising from the ground in the land of the rising sun
- Howe Dell School demonstrates Interseasonal Heat Transfer
- Asphalt Solar Collector captures heat
- Thermal Bank stores heat between seasons
- Toddington demonstrates clearing of ice. See other Toddington Images
- Solar heat transferred to winter heating
- Winter cold transferred to summer cooling
- Howe Dell Eco School heats itself
- Howe Dell School saves energy. See other Howe Dell Images
- Underfloor heating is an efficient means of distributing heat
- Downloads
- Slides for presentations
- Integrating Renewables - Complementary Forces
- ICAX Energy Efficiency by ICAX
- GSHP Scotland presentation by ICAX
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