Is a hybrid heating system better than a standard heat pump? - The Times

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Is a hybrid heating system better than a standard heat pump?

When a family’s terraced home was rejected for an air source heat pump, they went hybrid instead and slashed their carbon use — and their gas bill

Amy Brown and Michael Brown and their son, Nate

KATIE LEE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES

The Brown family have gone green. They have a heat pump. Not just any heat pump — a hybrid heat pump.

Like 90 per cent of families in Britain, the Browns — Michael and Amy, and their son, Nate, six — had a gas boiler that burnt fossil fuel. “We wanted to decarbonise our heating,” Michael, a website manager, says. Two years ago they applied to take part in the government’s “electrification of heat” trial to test heat pumps.

There was a problem. Experts deemed the Browns’ three-bedroom house, built in 1902 in an Edwardian terrace in Gateshead, unsuitable for a standard air source heat pump. Their tiny garden did not have room for the bulky outdoor unit. Although they had loft insulation and double

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