Ground Source Review: Coastline, Wheal Vyvyan August 9, 2016 Background Coastline Housing was looking to replace inefficient night storage heaters in a group of bungalows situated off the gas grid. Coastline attended a seminar hosted by Kensa where they heard from fellow social landlord Trent & Dove Housing about their successful experience of installing ground source heat pumps into similar bungalows. This helped Coastline shape their opinion that ground source presented a credible and affordable heating and hot water option for tenants in off gas grid homes, and prompted them to undertake a trial in twelve bungalows housing older and vulnerable residents at Wheal Vyvyan in Constantine, Cornwall.The project benefited from a combination of funding including the Non- Domestic Renewable Heat

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