Renewable Heat Premium Payment Scheme: Heat Pump Monitoring, 2013-2015

<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p>The need to develop the UK supply for domestic heat pumps (HPs) and to evaluate the empirical performance of HP systems in the field has led to the establishment of two major UK field trials of HPs (the first one took place between 2008 and 2012). These data were generated from the second field trial, established by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in conjunction with the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) grant scheme, which ran from 2011-2014 (note that the data included here cover the period October 2013-March 2015). <br> <br> The RHPP policy provided subsidies for private householders, Registered Social Landlords and communities to install renewable heat measures in residential properties. Eligible measures included air and ground-source heat pumps, biomass boilers and solar thermal. Around 18,000 heat pumps were installed via this scheme. The DECC funded a detailed monitoring campaign, which covered 700 heat pumps (around 4% of the total). The aim of this monitoring campaign was to assess the efficiencies of the heat pumps and to estimate the carbon and bill savings and amount of renewable heat generated.<br> <br> Further information about the RHPP scheme (which has now closed), including statistics, can be found on the Gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-heat-incentive-renewable-heat-premium-payment-statistics" title="Renewable Heat Premium Payment scheme statistics">Renewable Heat Premium Payment scheme statistics</a> webpage.<br> <br> <b>Downloading the data - using suitable zip software</b><br> Users should note that the download zip file for this study is around 5.5GB in size. The standard Windows system zip compression software is not able to unzip a file of this size completely and may mean that problems are encountered with some of the data or documentation files. Therefore, it is recommended that users install one of the following software packages in order to unzip the file: <ul><li><a href="http://www.7-zip.org/" title="7zip">7zip</a> (free open source software for Windows, check 7zip website for Linux/Unix); </li><li><a href="http://www.winzip.com" title="WinZip">WinZip</a> (free to try for Windows and Mac); </li><li><a href="http://www.izip.com/" title="iZip">iZip</a> (free software for Mac).</li></ul><B>Main Topics</B>:<br>The data cover a number of technical parameters from monitoring heat pump systems (such as flow temperature, heat output) in timeseries form (2-minutely data) for each of the monitored sites. Heat pump efficiencies (such as Seasonal Performance Factor) can be calculated from the variables present