GI Energy, the UK leader in the design and installation of Ground Source Energy Systems, is celebrating after saving the UK more than 40 million tonnes of carbon emissions to date with its heating and cooling systems.

The Coventry-based company passed the milestone – the equivalent of the entire annual carbon emissions from Slovakia – earlier this month with the combined savings from its 200MW worth of installations.

The total has been run up since 2000 when GI Energy first pioneered the use of this extremely energy efficient method of heating and cooling buildings in the UK after founder Brian Davidson was impressed with the technology.

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Since then, GI Energy has installed systems in schools, hospitals, universities, supermarkets, commercial developments, district heating schemes, police headquarters and even a church. Flagship projects include One New Change in London and the Oxford Earth Sciences building for Oxford University.

Chris Davidson, Director of Development for GI Energy, said: "It is exciting to see just how big a contribution towards cutting the UK's carbon footprint that GI Energy's systems have already achieved - and there is more to come!

"Ground Source Energy Systems are fantastic both for cutting carbon footprints and for saving on energy bills. The underlying beauty of the system is that it effectively uses heat from the sun that has been stored naturally in the ground.

"For every kilowatt of power required to run a system, around four kilowatts of heating or up to six kilowatts of cooling is produced. It is a truly renewable form of heating and cooling which has a great future ahead of it."

(CD/JP)