Over twenty-five Lords and MPs attended the briefing which focused on why air source heat pumps offer real home to combat fuel poverty and emissions.

Divisional Commercial Director, Donald Daw, explained the technological advances that lead to products such as Ecodan and how they can offer UK households a viable and sustainable low carbon alternative to gas and oil.

The Ecodan range works with a wide variety of tank sizes and specifications and is also available as a stand-alone unit for situations where a packaged solution is not required. This latest development gives installers more choice and flexibility and allows Ecodan to be used with a greater array of pumps, valves, controls and tanks.

As energy prices continue to rise, more households are struggling with bills and the number falling into fuel poverty is increasing. With the UK now a net importer of gas, the environmental, economic and political situation means that as a country as a whole, we need to find more long-term, sustainable ways of heating our homes. 

This is where the greater use of air source heat pumps such as Ecodan can help by reducing the nation’s energy consumption whilst matching the ease of use that gas heating currently offers for the homeowner and dramatically cutting fuel bills.

Ecodan has been specifically designed to meet the unique demands of the UK and uses proven heat pump technology to extract free, renewable energy from the surrounding air and reduce the amount of primary energy needed.  It can offer savings in running costs of over 30% and cut CO2 emissions by up to 50% when compared to even the most modern of gas condensing boilers. Savings over older gas boilers and oil, LPG or direct electric systems are even greater.

“Heating and hot water accounts for over 70% of the energy we use in our homes so if we as a nation can cut this consumption, we can make a real difference to both emissions levels and the fuel bills of hard-pressed households,” explained John Kellett, General Manager of the Heating Department. “The politicians all readily grasped the significance of this and there was a genuine level of interest in the technology.”

A number of MPs will also be visiting Hatfield in the near future to learn more about heat pumps and how they can help reduce both fuel poverty and carbon emissions.

The Ecodan line-up includes two new models offering 5kW and 14kW power output to join the 8.5kW model that was introduced earlier this year. This now means that as well as helping new build houses to achieve the Code for Sustainable Homes, a wider range of properties from single flats to larger houses, can benefit from air source heat pump technology.

“We told the MPs that we’re confident that we can deliver low carbon heating to the vast majority of UK properties built from the 1970’s onwards,” explained John Kellett. “In addition we stressed the fact that as the infrastructure to install this technology already exists, heat pumps can quickly become the mass market way of providing low carbon heating for the nation.”

For further details on the Ecodan range or for more information

on becoming an Accredited Ecodan Installer please visit

www.mitsubishielectric.co.uk/heating or call 01707 278666.