Ideal Heating given green light for £12.5m heat pump testbed in Hull

Stuart Stone
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R&D centre to focus on developing low carbon heating solutions such as heat pumps

Ideal Heating's plan to build a £12.5m low carbon heating research and development (R&D) centre in Hull has taken a major leap forward, with the project having secured planning permission for the facility...

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