Saving a year at Barber's Farmhouse Cheesemakers from milk-source heat pumps in three of its seven milking parlours

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The farm and the heat-pump supplier, Arkaya Energy, as reported by a journalist. We have not seen the data. One farm in south-west England, not Wales.

The heat pumps cool the milk and use the heat taken out of it to heat washing water to 92°C. The farm says they halve its electricity use.

The Guardian (from Canary Media), 'It bloody works': why the world's oldest cheddar-maker uses a 'milk-source' heat pump, 17 September 2026'saving Barber's about £70,000 a year'