media_mentions Archive - Star Renewable Energy

Canal-Sourced Heat Pump from Star Drives Mersey Heat Energy Centre

Mersey Heat’s new Energy Centre at Liverpool Waters’ Princes Dock places Star Renewable Energy’s large-scale water source heat pump technology at the heart of a major low carbon district heating scheme. Developed by The Peel Group with district energy specialists Ener-Vate and delivered by Vital Energi, the project uses one Read more…

By Brian Coyle, 1 week1 week ago

Huge river-powered heat pumps ‘can solve clean heat dilemma for city tenements’

Prof Dave Pearson told the Record even the classic Glasgow tenement block – considered tricky for installing normal heat pumps – could be powered by large-scale ‘district heating’. Read more…

By Brian Coyle, 2 years2 years ago

Experts vision for delivering cheaper electricity ‘the best thing to head to Liverpool from Glasgow since Dalglish’

Prof Dave Pearson has a vision for how the Scottish government could help bring down the cost of electricity for large-scale heat pumps and it involves a private wire running from a wind farm out to the pump.

By Brian Coyle, 2 years2 years ago

District heating could take the fear out of scrapping our old boilers

Fear, along with confusion in a cost of living crisis, haunts our decisions on heating. However, in Scotland, all major cities are on rivers and the abilities to take heat out of the rivers using district heating are massive which would negate the need for individual costly heat pumps. Dave Read more…

By Brian Coyle, 2 years2 years ago

How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future

Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices —and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities

By Brian Coyle, 2 years2 years ago

Business HQ The Herald: It’s Time we Primed the Pumps

District heating networks powered by heat pumps offer a straightforward solution to our energy crisis and the transition away from gas. It’s time for the Government to properly address costs and help create demand, argues Dave Pearson of Star Refrigeration.

By Brian Coyle, 4 years ago

Heat pumps lead the way to net zero

As world leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26 in November, their aim is to secure global net zero by 2050.

By Brian Coyle, 4 years4 years ago

Business HQ The Herald: Scotland’s Renewables

Creating a demand for proven technology with strong policies and fair financial support will bring a just transition and a cleaner future in heating.

By Brian Coyle, 5 years4 years ago

Business HQ The Herald – Whisky Industry Piece

Dave Pearson discusses how the whisky industry can lower its carbon footprint.

By Brian Coyle, 5 years4 years ago

Dave Pearson discusses how to clean up Scotland’s heat

As part of the Herald’s Business HQ series, Star’s Dave Pearson was interviewed on how to clean up Scotland’s heat. with novel ideas like “pay as you go” domestic heat purchase contracts and a call for a ban on gas boilers in new homes, this article is certainly not more Read more…

By Brian Coyle, 5 years4 years ago