Grant extensions needed for heat pumps

'Some people feel that it’s not being subsidised enough, that there isn’t enough information about it, they feel there isn’t enough independent advice about heat pump technologies'

Air and ground-source heat pumps are a consideration for many poultry, pig and horticultural units in particular. Picture: iStock

With policy changing and a “push for renewable heating that’s going to be mandated soon”, farms must adopt new technologies to help reduce emissions from heating and cooling activities.

And the sooner they do it, “the sooner you can pay off your investment”, researcher Nick Vafeas of the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences told the Irish Examiner at this week’s Teagasc event focused on the use of heat pumps in agriculture.