20/06/2009 Prince Charles turns Highgrove into a green haven

A Daily Telegraph article of 26 June announces that the Prince of Wales has introduced his most environmentally firiendly measures yet to turn Highgrove, his country home, into a green haven.

Closer inspection reveals that a heat pump company is a new tenant on the Highgrove Estate and they have installed air and ground source heat pumps in their own building. If successful - these technologies may be adopted by Prince Charles on other estate buildings.

The Prince has been exposed to this technology from its very early beginnings in th UK. He opened the Isles of Scilly Health Centre on St Mary's in 1999 - which incorporated the first non-domestic closed loop borehole installation in the UK.

His own home on the estate uses solar and biomass technologies. More here...

This newsletter is assembled by Robin Curtis who has a vested interest in this technology and currently works for EarthEnergy Limited - a UK promoter of ground source heat pumps. Notwithstanding - this informal newsletter is intended to provide a focus for all UK activity on ground coupled, water source heating and cooling technology for buildings. This is variously referred to as earth coupled systems, geothermal heat pumps, earth energy systems, closed loop ground source heat pumps etc.

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