Nicky Butterworth, Chief Operations Officer at Guru Systems, has been appointed as a member of the Executive Board for the ADE (Association of Decentralised Energy). The ADE is the leading trade association for decentralised energy, representing more than 130 interested parties from across the industrial, commercial and public sectors. They [...]
Guru Systems are offering funded pilots of Guru Heat Smart to housing associations or local authorities looking to improve gas boiler efficiency ahead of the coming winter. Read more below, or watch our informational webinar from Tuesday 9 August to find out more: What is Guru Heat [...]
Guru Systems and FairHeat are delighted to announce that our collaborative product Guru Verify has been shortlisted for the ‘Heat and Efficiency – Digital Innovation’ category at this year’s Decentralised Energy Awards. Guru Verify is a mobile and web app for quicker, more cost effective acceptance testing. Deliver site-wide acceptance testing [...]
The price of gas is the most obvious driver of energy bills, but one driver that is often overlooked is boiler efficiency. Inefficient boilers can cost residents over £500 more per year. On paper, boilers perform at around 90-91% efficiency, but field trials repeatedly show that performance in the [...]
We all know that it’s best to design heat networks for the lowest whole-life cost - but sometimes project budgets are so constrained that CAPEX must be kept to an absolute minimum. Recognising this reality is what inspired us to create Guru Hub 3 Core - monitoring hardware for heat [...]
Wholesale gas prices have risen sharply this winter and the impact on energy bills has been considerable. The price cap which protects customers who heat their homes using gas boilers had already risen by 12% in October, and will rise again by an unprecedented 54% from April. Despite the [...]
From January 2022, Guru Systems will be offering the following CPD Seminar: Capturing and interpreting heat network performance data for designers and developers Summary: Despite good intentions; many UK heat networks do not perform anywhere near their intended efficiency; with network oversizing contributing to the problem. Measuring and reporting on [...]
Damp and mould are serious problems. In 2018-19, the most recent data published by the UK government, 27% of households in England reported having an issue with damp - that’s 6.2 million homes. Damp and mould isn’t a new problem, but more recently the spotlight is rightly being shone on [...]
There’s a general misconception that local authorities will always choose a pay-as-you-go billing system for their residents living on heat networks. In fact, many choose credit billing. Some customers prefer to pay for the heat they use at the end of month, and for local authorities, credit billing can [...]
In January 2020 CIBSE and the Association of Decentralised Energy published CP1: Heat networks: Code of Practice for the UK (2020) (also known as CP1 2020). While the original CP1 proved influential in providing minimum standards for heat networks in the UK from design to operation stages, the updated [...]