The Challenge

The school is maintained by the Denbighshire Education Authority and in 2019 Council Members decided to declare a climate and ecological emergency and to work to net zero by 2030.

As part of this the council needed to look at all buildings, in particular schools as this is an area where they knew they could make a direct impact on carbon emissions.

Ysgol Brynhyfryd 2

The Solution

The solution was the installation of 70kW of solar photovoltaic panels on the school roof, along with replacing three gas boilers with two commercial air source heat pumps.

“Between the schemes, the air source heat pumps and the solar panels system that we installed here, it is estimated that the school will save an average of £17 to £19 thousand per annum, along with 28 tonnes of carbon,” commented Ben Musgrave, Director of JM Renewable Solutions, who installed the systems. JM Renewables replaced the existing gas boilers in the school with two 40kW CAHV air source heat pumps from Mitsubishi Electric. The school building also has underfloor floor heating throughout.

Ysgol Brynhyfryd 3

Products Used

The efficiency of the heat pumps installed should be around 300 to 400 per cent, so for every one kilowatt of electricity consumed, it will deliver 3 to 4 kilowatts of heat to the building

Elliot Sullivan
Head of Mechanical Division ,
JM Renewables

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