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Rinnai – Call to Unify for Net-Zero

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A single unifying body can concentrate all efforts from all sectors of the building products & services industry in achieving clear and concise information exchange in drive to net zero carbon 

Rinnai has called for a single body or council to represent all buildings, products & services industries sectors to create a pragmatic and non-partisan pathway to achieve and promote the goal of net-zero carbon emissions. 

Rinnai is also calling for that body to be composed of all interested parties - residential & industrial consumers, contractors, installers, distributors, designers & consultants, manufacturers – to plan for a realistic and practical route to net-zero.

Educate for Assurance and Direction

“We need to look at this from the consumers’ viewpoint," said Rinnai Managing Director Tony Gittings. "We need to be putting accurate information in the public arena. Now there are a lot of interested bodies and companies showing understandable self-interest in wanting to know they have a future in the marketplace. We cannot be agnostic towards energy vectors of the future, the combination of Hydrogen, BioLPG and electricity combined will provide a robust decarbonisation pathway.” 

"In our sector we have manufacturers of similar or like-for-like products which are looking to what will replace natural gas as the fuel of mass consumption and how that will affect them. We also have the pragmatic logic of trying to find affordable fuels for the mass market. Alternatives on their own are simply not an answer. We also need to look at the range of innovations and developments such as Hydrogen and BioLPG that will come on stream."  

Single Products are Below the Solution

"No single product or system is the panacea to the issue of carbon emissions," he continued. "Individual products have a place. But what would be the net zero answer, as an example, to a commercial or industrial building envelope that has the added complications of needing Legionella prevention regimes and constant high temperature hot water in large volumes?  

"How would electrification and heat pumps, for example, be attractive in terms of capital, installation and ongoing operational costs and performance? Yet when we look towards notional building models within the new future buildings standard or the Scottish Energy in buildings draft these documents are clearly looking for a silver bullet solution, that doesn’t exist”.

"Everything has a role to play and everything non-carbon can have a future. And a collective, equable effort will give us the result we all want, the result we must have, if we are to have a sustained quality of life," said Mr Gittings.

“For this to be achieved widespread unity and clear, responsible information exchange is required to avoid the partisan or the silver bullet approach, thus avoiding technology dystopia in the future.”

FM, Installers, site managers, contractors and all end-users simply call 01928 531870, select technical and if the call is not answered immediately leave a voicemail. Response will be within one hour between 0800 – 22:30 / 7 days a week. This means that there will be a technical response every day of the week.
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