Author_Institution :
Electricity Council, Research Centre, Applied Environmental Research Section, Chester, UK
Abstract :
Air-source electric heat pumps can double the heat input to the home, but they are optimised for US summer conditions: British houses need a smaller, quieter, heating only unit. Although significant design improvements on the US heat pump are possible to make them more suitable, there is a competing technology that has a more immediate effect, a lower call on resources and therefore the higher priority
