Scheme:
The England Recycling Fund
Technologies used:
Solar PV, Ground source heat pump, LED lighting
Region:
North West
Client type:
Maintained school
Leven Valley Church of England Primary School
Key information
Estimated savings
£5,110
Annual carbon savings
Working with Salix
Low-carbon heating at Leven Valley
Situated within the Lake District National Park, Leven Valley is a small primary school with just over 60 pupils. Over the last decade, the school has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to the reduction of carbon across their estate, to create a thermally efficient building ready for the decarbonisation of heat.
Where possible, the school has made use of natural and sustainable building materials and approaches, taking a cold, damp, and inhospitable building and transforming it into a warm and welcoming learning environment. The next step for Leven Valley’s carbon reduction strategy was to tackle their heating, upgrading from an oil-based system to a 30.12kW borehole ground source heat pump (GSHP).
Embracing a holistic approach
Why should you take a holistic approach to energy efficiency?
- Long-term, large-scale projects become achievable for organisations of any size
- Smooth transition to a low-carbon future
- Predicted cost savings calculated by Salix’s dedicated Technical Team
- Reinvestment of energy savings
- savings • Despite their old building, Leven Valley’s existing efficiency measures such as insulation, solar PV and LED lighting replacements have made the installation of their GSHP possible
We are a very small school... but I hope you can see that we think big and we act green.
Technical breakdown
- In this case, a GSHP was the most robust, long-term approach for minimising carbon emissions and was an ideal replacement for the school's oil-based heating system
- The GSHP can access online weather and climate data, track heat usage and monitor solar electricity generation to optimise the system's efficiency, keeping costs to a minimum and maximising the use of renewable energy
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