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Heating & Renewables Roadshow gets off to a fl ier
The Heating & Renewables Roadshow has
hit the ground running following its offi cial
launch in early July.
Over 100 industry heavy hitters attended
the launch event at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena
on 03 July to hear representatives from
A&D Publishing present full details of the
market proposition for the UK’s only regional
renewables exhibition.
Throughout next September, the
roadshow will tour fi ve UK venues achieving
complete nationwide coverage including its
fi rst ever appearance at FIVE, Farnborough
(full schedule below).
A&D Publishing general manager,
Scott Masheder, said: “We have already
experienced a huge volume of enquiries and
an impressive number of confi rmed bookings.
“We’re off to a terrifi c start with some
of the industry’s biggest names on board
To discuss packages available for
exhibiting or sponsorship opportunities,
please contact Adam Hart (07785 630380) or
Jonathan Hibbert (01565 626760).
For more information and to request
a media pack, please visit www.
heatingandrenewablesroadshow.co.uk/
including Stroma, Windhager, Glow-worm,
Vaillant, Corgi, Kensa, Zenex and Hitachi.”
He added: “We will be in a position to
confi rm our list of knowledge partners shortly,
made up of the sector’s largest trade counters
and merchants.”
Dates & venues
10 September 2015 Ricoh Arena, Coventry
15 September 2015 Westpoint Arena, Exeter
17 September 2015 FIVE, Farnborough
22 September 2015 RHC, Edinburgh
24 September 2015 Event City, Manchester
*subject to change
d-RHI enjoys rapid start
Offi cial fi gures from Ofgem reveal the number
of households benefi ting from the domestic
RHI shot passed the 1,000 mark in only seven
weeks following the scheme’s offi cial opening
in April, beating all expectations.
Initial uptake has highlighted some
interesting trends with almost half of
applicants choosing to fi t a ground source or
air source heat pump.
Uptake was spread fairly evenly across
the UK with the South East, South West and
East Anglia regions leading the way.
Predictably, almost half of applicants
were replacing oil as their primary heat
source, although almost a third switched
away from gas.
At the time of going to press, the total
number of homes applying for d-RHI had
risen to 7,418.
Meanwhile, under the non-domestic
strand of the RHI, installed capacity of wood
heating systems has broken through the 1GW
mark.
Dr Nina Skorupska, REA chief executive,
said: “Thousands of UK businesses have realised the benefi ts of biomass for delivering reliable, low cost, low carbon heating, and yet we’ve only
just scratched the surface. We want renewable technologies to be the go-to option for all buildings and industrial processes, which will make a
huge dent in our greenhouse gas emissions and greatly reduce our dependence on imported gas. To secure this, the government must take the
advice of the Committee on Climate Change and commit to suffi cient funding for the RHI in the next spending round.”
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