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the only link between alto energy and ice energy, is that alto energy was founded and setup by ex - employees of ice energy who were made redundant following ice energy being placed into liquidation. alto energy is a completely separate company from ice energy and any of its group companies .
no, none of the directors or shareholders of ice energy heat pumps limited, ice energy floor heating limited or ice energy technologies limited have any operational, advisory, financial or shareholding involvement in alto energy limited .
ice energy provided a 5 year parts warranty with all heat pumps, and in turn ivt provided a warranty to ice energy. the good news for ice energy customers is that ivt have confirmed that this warranty is still valid on your heat pump, despite ice energy’s liquidation .
following their redundancy a number of former ice energy employees have since established a new company called alto energy limited. alto energy has been appointed as the new ivt distributor for the uk, and has subsequently acquired a number of ice energy assets from the liquidator including the newsletter subscription list and the ice energy website, hence our ability to redirect ice energy web traffic onto this page .
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ice energy’s ice bear technology fits on traditional air conditioners and freezes water into ice at night when demand for power is low. during the day, the stored ice is used to provide air conditioning at peak hours, drawing down customer power demand .
however, this concept was not an option for single - family homes until recently, according to white, who also serves as the cfo of ice energy. since 2003, ice energy has made a smaller - scale version of an ice chiller called the ice bear, intended for medium - size buildings up to four stories tall. then beginning in august 2014, ice energy started to prototype the ice cub, a version of the ice bear for single - family homes, according to white .
genbright and ice energy have teamed up for an energy storage project on massachusetts' nantucket island aimed at supplanting the need for new undersea transmission .
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“the ice bear is the ice cub’s big brother, ” white says. “the ice cub is modular and has a smaller form factor than the ice bear. ” with the ice cub, ice - chilling technology helps even out the electrical transmission load during hot summer days to cool air for use in residential buildings .
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the high - tech guts of the ice bear thermal energy storage system belie a simple concept: it is more efficient to freeze water for cold air than to cool air directly. image courtesy of ice energy. photo editing by
california mandate for energy storage and more ice energy sees an opportunity for residential ice chiller technology with the publication by the state of california for mandated energy storage with a target of 1. 325 gigawatts by 2020. “that translates to a market potential of $ 10 billion, ” white says. “the ice cub lets us install ice chilling technology in any residential housing, except for apartment buildings. ” for large apartment buildings, the ice bear would be more appropriate, perhaps .
please be advised that ice energy heat pumps ltd has been placed into liquidation. all staff at ice energy were made redundant at the end of january and critchleys llp was appointed as liquidator at a creditors meeting held on the 27th february. any customers that placed deposits with ice energy, or have any other type of claim, should direct this claim to critchleys in the first instance :
please be advised that ice energy heat pumps ltd has been placed into liquidation. all staff at ice energy were made redundant at the end of january and critchleys llp was appointed as liquidator at a creditors' meeting held on the 27th february. any customers that placed deposits with ice energy, or have any other type of claim, should direct this claim to critchleys in the first instance :
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alto energy is a genuine employee start - up, set up with the purpose of trying to look after existing ice energy customers and representing the interests of ivt in the uk heat pump market .
following ice energy' s demise, alto energy limited is now the uk distributor for ivt heat pumps. so if you placed a ground source heat pum p, air source heat pump or underfloor heating order with ice energy that has not been completed or if you have any new projects for which you would like to receive a quotation then you should direct your enquiry to alto energy in the first instance .
likewise if you require any form of maintenance, servicing, or just general technical advise on an existing heat pump installation that you previously ordered from ice energy then alto energy can provide you with technical support .
the ice cub - - the smaller offspring of the c & i - scale ice bear - - could blow open a whole new market for residential thermal storage .
please note: we have had customers state that their credit card providers ask for proof. of ice energy going into liquidation. our newsletter or the ice energy home page should be enough to clarify this. if you haven' t received our newsletter please contact us and we will issue you a copy .
please note: we have had customers state that their debit card providers ask for proof. of ice energy going into liquidation. our newsletter or the ice energy home page should be enough to clarify this. if you haven' t received our newsletter please contact us and we will issue you a copy .
the project calls for genbright to perform real - time dispatch of the ice energy’s technology to deliver over 1 mw of peak demand reduction on the island .
easy for utility customers to sign up for azusa and other utilities’ customers participating in the ice energy thermal storage project, it will be very easy to sign up. “the utilities will say ‘hey mr. or ms customer do you want an ice chiller to lower your power bill? ’ and the customers usually say ‘great’, ” white says. then the utility gets the benefit of additional peak capacity, and the customer gets a lower power bill. the ice chiller concept requires a little explaining, but the utilities will buy the ice cubs and ice energy will site them at customer locations. at present, there is no formal program set up for participation, but let ice energy know what you think .
one ice bear freezes 450 gallons of water at night when electricity is more affordable. the ice bear is positioned near a rooftop ac unit and provides cold refrigerant to it on hot days to make it operate more efficiently. an ice bear can help cool an ac unit for six hours a day with the ice it created at night .
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alto energy acquired all of ice energy' s assets from the liquidator, including the contents of the server. this means that any project documentation that was relevant to your project and saved on ice energy' s server is now available to us. if you would like to get hold of your project documentation then please get in touch with us and we will gladly provide this to you .
following the recent liquidation of ice energy heat pumps limited, alto energy limited has since been awarded the sole distributorship for ivt heat pump products, ivt accessories and ivt spare parts in the uk. the main reason for ivt choosing to partner with alto energy limited is due to the significant experience and expertise that alto energy' s staff have with the ivt heat pump product range .
it appears the energy storage field will continue growing, and if this is so, then the arguments against renewable energy will probably be diminished considerably .
ice energy had been looking into residential applications for about five years, said ceo mike hopkins, who learned how to work with ice growing up in calgary, canada. part of the impetus came from utilities asking for help dealing with residential energy demand. the ice bear systems connect to existing ac units, chilling the air that pumps through the existing compressor, but that was getting too complicated at a smaller scale .
alto energy has subsequently reached an agreement with the liquidator (critchleys llp) for the purchase of the assets of ice energy. this included miscellaneous stock items from the warehouse, office furniture, the contents of the server and the customer databases .
ocean waters melting the undersides of antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent' s ice shelf mass loss, a new study by nasa and university researchers has found .
ice chilling technology works by freezing water overnight when electricity rates are “off - peak” and then letting it melt during the heat of the day to cool the air, saving money and power capacity for more important uses. image courtesy of ice energy. photo editing by
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alto energy are the sole distributor of ivt heat pump spare parts in the uk. all parts, including for legacy ice energy ivt heat pumps, will be available through our online store which is coming soon. if you need to order a part please call us .
both the extent and thickness of arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the last several decades. 8
this means that if you were an ice energy heat pumps limited customer and have an ivt heat pump, alto energy is here to help. we are here to provide telephone technical support, heat pump servicing by ivt - approved engineers, and provide genuine ivt spare parts .
if you received a quote from ice energy for a ground or air source heat pump, or underfloor heating, then alto energy would be delighted to have the opportunity to provide you with a quotation for you project. please do get in touch using our contact details below .
“we are not selling energy, we are selling capacity, ” explained ice energy cfo james white, whose unique ice bear storage technology was awarded 25. 6 megawatts of the sce procurement. “for the higher penetrations of wind and solar being mandated by renewables and emissions policies, you need storage even if it doesn’t beat the price of gas. the economics are not the driver. ”
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the ice cub is part of a research project to help verify potential thermal energy storage systems for residential applications. it is supported by a technology research grant from the american public power association (appa) .
everything in the usa, including research for air - on - ice having a relationship with azusa light & water previously in place for the ice bear, the city - owned utility in southern california made the perfect partner to test the new ice cub, which is still in the prototype stage. “azusa asked for the ice cub, ” white says. “they wanted the prototype, and they helped us find the individual homeowners to test it. ”
the product does everything conventional ac units do, plus provides three hours of electricity - free ice - based cooling .
the greenland and antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. data from nasa' s gravity recovery and climate experiment show greenland lost and average of 281 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016, while antarctica lost about 119 billion tons during the same time period. the rate of antarctica ice mass loss has tripled in the last decade .
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the nantucket contract is the latest in a string of projects for the thermal storage company. in 2014, ice energy made headlines with a 26. 5 mw contract with southern california edison and more recently signed a 1 mw contract with the southern california public power authority .
through a competitive bidding process, sce acquired 130 megawatts of energy efficiency, 75 megawatts of demand response, 44 megawatts of customer - sited renewables, 261 megawatts of energy storage, 1, 284 megawatts of combined cycle natural gas capacity, and 98 megwatts of peaking natural gas capacity. the energy storage purchase represents five times more storage capacity than sce was obligated to purchase under california law .
the ice cub his team came up with is sized like a 2. 5 - ton ac unit, the kind that serves small to medium - sized households. this ac has a special power, though: in between air conditioning cycles or when it' s not in use, it freezes water in an insulated tank. it can fill the tank with ice in four hours. then, on command, the system can switch from conventional ac to using the ice to cool the house for at least three hours, during which time no energy is needed to chill the air .
soon, homeowners will be able to access a form of storage thus far reserved for businesses and large buildings. a form of storage that uses ice .
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“this is one of the few applications i have seen where someone is attempting to provide energy efficient cooling, ” says jeff haydock, president and ceo of ecocfo llc, provider of cfo services to energy and environmental businesses. “most companies are attacking the heating component first. ”
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“local participants will enjoy increased comfort as well as savings on their energy bills … and defer the need for traditional contingency support, such as back - up diesel generation and a costly third undersea cable, ” lauren sinatra, energy project and outreach coordinator for nantucket, said in a statement .
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the breakthrough we got to was when we figured out we could do this all in one: don' t add to the air conditioner, just replace the conventional home air conditioner ,
hopkins said .
make one system that' s both a cooling system and an ice storage system, that can sometimes be cooled conventionally and sometimes cooled just with ice .
smil concludes with some broader points. he notes that advances in the capacity to harness energy have led to huge improvements in human well - being, including greater mobility and illumination. however, he stresses that many political leaders in the twentieth century, from vladimir lenin to franklin delano roosevelt, have been let down by the promise of economic growth boosted by huge energy investments, such as hydroelectric dams and nuclear power stations. these are not panaceas, because abundant energy is a necessary but not sufficient condition for development .
ice cores drawn from greenland, antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that the earth’s climate responds to changes in greenhouse gas levels. ancient evidence can also be found in tree rings, ocean sediments, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. this ancient, or paleoclimate, evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice - age - recovery warming. 3
because of the vast literature on energy written since smil' s 1994 history, this radically revised version is 60% longer. structurally and in terms of message, the books are similar, however, probably because the new literature has not fundamentally changed our interpretation of the energy landscape. it is also a credit to smil' s original and enlightening way of seeing energy in world history. read it and be dazzled by the panoply of ways in which humanity has powered progress, with forces, materials and sheer blazing ingenuity .
we guarantee we' ll make the same amount of ice ,
he said .
it' s a tank of water and it freezes; it doesn' t freeze less over 20 years .
the base price is equivalent to a high - efficiency air conditioner, hopkins said, but with money from california’s self - generation incentive program (sgip), the price comes down to the level of a conventional ac. that, plus california’s huge ac demand, high solar penetration, high electricity prices and green - minded consumers, is leading ice energy to focus on the golden state first .
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3. bank transfer or cheque. if you paid by bank transfer or cheque then unfortunately there is not any particular scheme to provide consumer protection, as there is for credit and debit cards. in this instance your first avenue to pursue should be the deposit and workmanship warranty insurance scheme (dawwi), which was registered for all consumer contracts under the renewable energy consumer code rules, of which ice energy was a member. the dawwi scheme provides deposit insurance up to 25% of the contract value, however there are time limits on the duration of the cover and so you should ensure that you contact them at your earliest opportunity .
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the initial sales will be for the benefit of the customers, but hopkins noted there is “tremendous opportunity” down the road to aggregate the energy storage of these distributed assets and sell it into into available markets .
that’s a big deal for anyone who pays time - of - use rates or residential demand charges: the ice cub essentially eliminates the electricity demand for cooling, which is the largest single household use for electricity, during three hours of peak demand .
“this is a historic event in the history of the grid. we have definitely reached a turning point, or a no - turning back point! ” celebrated california energy storage alliance co - founder janice lin. “ab 2514 and the subsequent petermen decision to require california’s ious to procure energy storage required stakeholders—the utilities commission, utilities, industry—to focus on how it can be used on the grid. and guess what? they are. ”
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right now, two prototype ice cub units are operating at azusa residential customer premises. “if the data looks good, they will run for a couple of months, ” white says. “then there will be more with azusa and more with other utilities. ”
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he is not a historian. there is no strong narrative or testing of a central hypothesis. but he does provide economic and geopolitical context. for instance, he touches on the importance of the organization of the petroleum exporting countries and the oil - price shocks of the 1970s in ushering in a new energy era. larger petroleum reserves, alternative energy sources and more efficient technologies were frantically sought to minimize the economic damage from the oil - price hike .
unfortunately ice energy' s extended warranties were self - insured, and as such these extended warranties are now void. if you paid by credit card, or indeed paid any part of the contract by credit card, then you are fully protected under the consumer credit act 1974 up to a contract value of £30, 000. this also applies to extended warranties. if you paid this by credit card you are entitled to a full refund of the sum of money lost through your credit card company .
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although these risks have been tolerated, smil reminds us that concerns about air pollution have encouraged transitions away from coal in europe and china. chinese investment in wind turbines and solar panels has driven down the price of renewable power so that in many locations it is the cheapest source of electricity. although it is too early to say, we could be witnessing a dramatic new chapter in energy history. but a lesson from history is that solving one environmental problem often leads to another: increased energy consumption .
“because they typically have 20 year to 25 year contracts with a utility, new gas plants create long - term commitments to fossil fuels that interfere with california' s ability to rapidly decarbonize its energy system, ” sierra club environmental attorney matt vespa noted .
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customers with rooftop solar gain additional value, as they can put excess solar during peak production hours into making ice, which then cuts demand when it’s later used for cooling. in markets where compensation for excess solar generation is dropping, this offers an efficient way to consume more of what the panels produce .
southern california edison' s (sce) purchase of five times the storage it was obligated to acquire was similarly eye - catching, but looking deeper into the same procurement tranche raises questions about price and storage' s ability to assist in decarbonizing the energy system .
though not a big chunk of california’s electric power system demand, which can be over 50 gigawatts, the 1. 325 gigawatts of energy storage by 2020 mandate is big for the storage industry, lin said .
it is enough to have utilities learn by doing. ”
“by 2018 the cheapest commercial - scale storage options will run about $ 244 per installed kilowatt - hour, ” according to a report from energy strategies group. if that projection is realized, it would be significantly lower than the report’s estimated $ 348 per installed kilowatt - hour for natural gas peaker plants .
the company has production facilities in new york state that can make 1, 000 ice cubs a month, hopkins said. the company is keeping prices down thanks to an agreement with danfoss, a danish heating and cooling parts maker, which agreed to provide certain manufacture - ready components. that provides economies of scale even for the first production run of the product .
all parts warranty claims need to be processed through alto energy, who will liaise directly with ivt. so, if you are having issues with you heat pump, please contact us. we will then work to diagnose the problem, and if we identify a faulty component then we will replace the part under warranty .
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the heat - trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid - 19th century. 2 their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere is the scientific basis of many instruments flown by nasa. there is no question that increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the earth to warm in response .
the value of this should not be understated. air - conditioning demand drives the growth in peak demand, and the subsequent build - out of peaking gas plants. those are the most expensive power generation assets, and highly polluting. widespread deployment of ice cubs could play a crucial role in cutting peak demand, which could save ratepayers money on everything from substation upgrades to new gas peakers .
“it is good news that edison bought more storage than they were required to, ” said center for energy efficiency and renewable technologies (ceert) executive director v. john white. “storage has great value to the power system, especially when it is deployed with other things. but why are they buying so much combined cycle natural gas capacity? ”
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both peaker gas turbines and stored energy provide peaking capacity but storage can be positioned close to load and so delivered more quickly, lin said. “and when it is not providing capacity, storage could provide frequency regulation, spin, non - spin, and voltage support, and without emitting greenhouse gases. if it is stored renewables generation, there are no emissions at all. ”
there has been pressure from the governor’s office to make sure sce does not compromise reliability in this procurement, said a california utility industry veteran who asked not to be named. but the fact that aes energy storage won so much of the battery storage and so much of the combined cycle capacity raises questions. “was there some tie - in bid so they (sce) got a good price? ” the source wondered .
the target markets are people looking to replace an ac unit, people choosing the ac system for a new house, and developers building new houses. the company estimates that a typical household paying time - of - use rates would save $ 500 a year on its electricity bill by optimally using the ice cub. that makes for a compelling offer: pay the same as you would for a normal ac (assuming the availability of sgip funding), but get the savings as soon as it' s up and running .
however, others are more cautious about the market potential. “the thermal energy storage market is so young that the market size changes daily, ” haydock says. “variables driving this are: equipment and installation cost variations, changing regulations, evolving technologies, new markets opening up outside of california and a handful of others. pinning a market size to it is very difficult. it is a market with great potential that is mostly untapped and in the early stages of development. ”
“it will be cheaper, ” lin said. “when you have inventory in the system, all the fixed assets can be run a lot more efficiently. and if you use the stored energy to meet the peak, you don’t have to have so much excess capacity that is not used. that is going to be a huge savings. it will also result in a more reliable grid because when you have a little storage you are less at risk to things going bad. ”
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and while california' s ious—sce and pg & e principally—are bullish on solar, the same certainly cannot be said for the state' s municipally - owned utilities .
the sce local capacity requirements (lcr) buy of 1, 892 megawatts was to replace generation from the shuttered san onofre nuclear generating station and planned closures of once - through - cooling natural gas plants required by water conservation measures .
“we need to try some things out and see how they work and recalibrate, ” white agreed. “we need to show regulators and grid operators that preferred resources —renewables, efficiency, demand response, storage—may be pretty and green but they are also smart and capable of supplying a large fraction of the reliability services the system needs. ”
but, white added, “we have heard from the cpuc and caiso and the utilities that we don’t need base load. yet sce is buying combined cycle natural gas capacity, the very thing they said they don’t need. it seems odd. ”
it also raises questions because sce bought the minimum capacity and maximum amount of natural gas under the lcr parameters, the source added .
“they did the least they had to do, but used the procurement to obtain a big portion of their mandated storage. ”
on the other hand, the source said, “edison embraced the storage mandate early and bought stuff that could make a difference, and they bought enough of it to test at scale. ”
the estimated $ 350 per kilowatt - hour price mentioned for the oncor proposal from a brattle group report is very high, the source said. “batteries are still out of the money. people talk about the prices coming down but they have a long way to go. ”
that is not the collective conclusion of california’s publicly owned utilities (pous) .
while ab 2514 mandated that the state’s ious acquire storage, it only required the pous to assess and report by october 1, 2014. of 31 reports, 29 rejected storage. burbank water and power found it not fully developed and not cost - effective. sacramento municipal utility district found it “not cost effective at this time. ”
on the other hand, los angeles department of water and power announced its own target of 178 megawatts of storage by 2021, lin said. more importantly, she explained, “the competition is not on price, it is on value. ”
renewables and storage can do whatever gas can do and if the economics are competitive, it will make things go faster, white said. “ the cpuc order was that technologies should be selected on a price - competitive basis. that sce took 261 megawatts when its requirement was 50 megawatts shows the storage market is starting to evolve much more quickly than expected. that will push costs down. ”
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ice energy is an energy storage company serving utility companies in california . its main product is the ice bear system , developed for small to mid-sized commercial buildings . the ice bear freezes water at night when electricity is cheaper and uses that ice for space cooling during the day . 
ice energy is an energy storage company serving utility companies in california. its main product is the ice bear system, developed for small to mid-sized commercial buildings. the ice bear freezes water at night when electricity is cheaper and uses that ice for space cooling during the day.
ice energy is an energy storage company serving utility companies in california. its main product is the ice bear system, developed for small to mid-sized commercial buildings. the ice bear freezes water at night when electricity is cheaper and uses that ice for space cooling during the day.