With Climate change and global warming now dominating the worlds concerns, we all need to do our bit to help.

As the government puts pressure on the UK to reduce its reliance on fossil fuel, we need to switch to renewable technologies.

These systems produce no carbon emissions themselves, since they do not run off of a fossil fuel. They actually give out more energy than you put in, by using heat pump technology and the outside air as a heat source.

The Government has set up a scheme for businesses called the ECA scheme. The scheme is an incentive for businesses to install energy efficient systems to their premises. (Heat pump air conditioning systems are part of this scheme, proof of its efficiency).

This is what they say. “The Government introduced the ECA scheme in 2001 to encourage businesses to invest in low carbon, energy-saving equipment. As part of the Climate Change Levy Programme, it’s designed to help the UK reach its Kyoto target of reducing carbon emissions by 20%. Climate change is becoming one of the biggest threats to our planet’s environment, and the biggest cause of this is carbon emissions produced by burning fossil fuels. Around half of these come from businesses and industrial processes, so it’s important that efforts to reduce emissions focus on these areas”.