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NEA - NEW COURSE - Introduction to Domestic Renewable Low Carbon Technologies (Level 2 Award – CQ11641/001)
National Energy Action (NEA) NI
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For further information and course fees, please contact our NI Training Officer, Nichola MacDougall via email to [email protected] or telephone 028 9023 9909.
The UK government set out a target, enshrined in the Climate Change Act (2008), to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the whole of the UK by 2050.
Decarbonising homes is central to achieving that target and there is an urgent need to address the carbon emissions produced in heating and powering domestic properties. While the electricity powering lighting and appliances is decarbonising fast, the majority of homes still rely on burning fossil fuels for heating, hot water and cooking.
This course will provide an introduction to the role domestic scale renewable technologies can play in reducing carbon emissions. It will provide a non-technical explanation of how the technologies work, the factors to consider when installing these technologies, costings, potential carbon savings and their advantages and drawbacks.
Course audience
Anyone who requires an introduction to decarbonising energy use in the home through the installation of the main renewable technologies.
Pre-requisite
The course requires no prior knowledge of biomass, heat pumps (air and ground source), solar thermal hot water and solar photovoltaics.
As this is a level 2 qualification, learners will require basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Course aim
The overall aim of the course is to explain the role the key domestic renewable technologies – biomass heaters and boilers, heat pumps, solar thermal hot water and solar photovoltaics – can play in decarbonising energy use in the home.
Course objectives
Explain:
- decarbonisation
- the main renewable heat technologies – biomass, heat pumps and solar thermal hot water
- renewable electricity – solar photovoltaics
- the factors to consider before installing domestic renewable technologies
- advantages and drawbacks of the main technologies
Course content
The course will be broken down into four sections as follows:
Session 1 – Background and Biomass
- What is decarbonisation?
- Energy use in the home and emissions
- How to decarbonise domestic energy use
- Role of biomass:
- biomass fuels
- technologies – stoves and pellet boilers
- emissions and regulations
- storage and delivery
- advantages and drawbacks of biomass
- property/ householder checklist – what the householder should be considering when installing this technology in terms of property characteristics and their circumstances
Session 2 – Heat Pumps
- How they work
- Types of heat pump
- Focus on air source and ground source
- Heat distribution systems
- Cost and maintenance
- Advantages and drawbacks
- Property/ householder checklist
Session 3 – Solar Thermal Hot Water
- How it works
- Solar collectors
- Ideal setting
- Output
- Cost and maintenance
- Advantages and drawbacks
- Property/ householder checklist
Session 4 – Solar PV
- Electricity use in the home
- How solar PV works
- Output
- Ideal setting
- Grid-tied battery storage
- Cost and maintenance
- Advantages and drawbacks
- Property/ householder check
Sector:
- Advice services
- Carers
- Children and families
- Community development
- Disability
- Education/training
- Health and wellbeing
- Housing and homelessness
- Lobbying/policy
- Men
- Older people
- Race/ethnicity
- Rural development
- Volunteer development
- Women
- Young people
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