Social housing provider Nottingham City Homes has announced that it has installed the UK’s first ever offsite-manufactured Ventive Home heating and energy pod system on one of its properties.
The system, part of an innovative whole house retrofit project, is designed to help create warm, comfortable, cheaper-to-run, net-zero energy homes by replacing conventional heating systems with a pod that includes renewable technologies, energy storage and smart controls.
The pod stores and uses solar energy generated from the roof, and can access grid energy when it’s at its cheapest so that heating and electricity are provided in the most efficient way.
Testing new solutions for a net zero future
20 million UK homes need retrofitting to help achieve the UK’s climate targets. Nottingham is leading the way on this agenda, having declared the ambitious target of reaching carbon neutrality by 2028.
The Ventive Home system has been installed as part of a whole house retrofit project funded by Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), which is testing ways to retrofit existing homes to the standards required for the UK’s net zero future. Nottingham City Council has secured funding from BEIS to trial net zero retrofits on 170 homes by 2022.