1 December 2026
Brussels, Belgium
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Award Ceremony
1 December 2026
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LighthouseHP winner

Heat the streets

Projects details:
Location: Stithians, UK
Year of Submission: 2023
Type of HP: High-density ground source heat pump
Organisation: Kensa Utilities
Funding from: EU funds, Private
Sector of application: Residential

Heat the Streets is the UK’s pioneering high-density ground source heat pump (GSHP) project, partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It was delivered in rural Cornwall, UK.With the progress towards the UK’s net-zero targets for domestic heating being significantly behind schedule, the project demonstrated that GSHPs can be retrofitted to domestic properties without the need for a ‘fabric-first’ approach, at scale, and with no upfront cost to the customer. Heat the Streets demonstrated how mass, street-by-street rollout of GSHPs in a coordinated networked fashion can be facilitated. During the project the world’s first in-road retrofit of a shared ground array was successfully granted planning permission and installed. 100+ properties received GSHP’s across new build properties, private and social housing retrofits.

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