Climate Action Fund

April 2024: CFG tap into funding for local farm & fishery for ecosystem restoration project.

Pushing Modular Construction Boundaries

June 2024: RIBA 4, Net Zero farm house collaboration with Hemspan.

Energy Innovation on retro-fit project

April 2023: Proof of concept attempting Passiv house status on C14th farmhouse.

Greenhouse upgrade

April 2022: Analysis of future trends & options for re-purposing large scale greenhouses.

Net Zero Design in Suffolk

Dec 2022: CFG engaged to help plan Paragraph 80 projects in Suffolk.

Energy and Innovation

Ongoing : Inter-seasonal storage solutions for Paragraph 80 and 134 projects.

Net Zero Housing Project

Nov 2023: Systems integration for carbon net zero.

Energy and Ecology Innovation

Nov 2023: CFG joins multi-disciplinary team designing a P84 dwelling & equestrian area.

New Zero-Carbon Service Station

July 2023: CFG collaborating on Zero-Carbon design of Stannington Services, A1

Sustainable Energy Solutions

June 2023: CFG is proud to work on Neven Sidor’s RIBA award winning ‘Ponds Rough’

New Team Member

May 2023: We're excited to welcome Prue to the team to manage business operations

"The first in the UK to use low temperature PV-T"

The Chetwode Road "Applewood Respite Centre" was one of the first Carbon Free Group's projects, delivered in partnership with URS (formerly Scott Wilson). The Carbon Free Group was engaged on the project to provide technology and support in order to increase the BREEAM target for the building.

The project was the first in the UK to use low temperature PV-T (PowerVolt) - in fact for this project both PowerVolt and PowerTherm were used. Due to the nature of the building and its use, the building has very high hot water usage so the PVT is offsetting as much of the demand as possible.There is a total of 7.15kW of PVT used on the project supported by a 25kW ground source heat pump and backed up by a conventional gas boiler.

Technology Deployed

  • 3.85kW x PowerVolt
  • 3.3kW PowerTherm
  • 3 x Steca 2000 Inverter and slave
  • 25kW Ice Energy Heatpump
  • 1 x Emergency heat dump fan coil unit
  • Gas Boiler