Social Housing
Dimplex delivers compliant heating, hot water and ventilation solutions that lower costs and improve comfort across social housing
Improving energy efficiency, cutting carbon emissions and raising living standards are central to every social housing programme. Heating, hot water and ventilation systems play a critical role in achieving these goals. Dimplex works with social housing providers, developers and local authorities to deliver solutions that balance compliance, cost control and tenant comfort while supporting long-term asset performance. Our electric systems help tackle fuel poverty, reduce operational costs and meet regulatory and funding requirements, delivering reliable, consistent outcomes across large housing portfolios.
Why Choose Dimplex for Social Housing?
End-to-end heating and hot water solutions
Dimplex delivers complete, energy efficient systems tailored to the needs of social housing, simplifying specification across portfolios.
Removed Need for Gas and Pipework
Electric solutions reduce installation complexity, minimise disruption for tenants and support safer, more flexible upgrades.
Smart Control Options
Easy to use controls help tenants manage their heating more effectively, improving comfort while supporting lower energy use.
Fully compliant and sector-ready
All solutions are designed to meet current regulations and support funding requirements, giving confidence across every project.
We understand the pressures social housing providers face, from managing budgets to delivering reliable, energy efficient homes at scale. Dimplex offers flexible solutions to suit a range of project requirements, from full system designs to direct electric and hybrid approaches that combine efficient hot water with electric heating. This gives you the confidence to specify solutions that meet performance, compliance and cost objectives across your housing portfolio.
Quantum
The highly efficient delivery of heat and its ability to act as a thermal battery with simple and intuitive user controls makes Quantum a well suited and trusted solution for social housing sector refurbishment projects. The intelligent and adaptive controls ensure Quantum delivers economical heating for social housing tenants helping to reduce energy costs whilst delivering the thermal comfort required.
Dimplex Smart Heating System
The Dimplex Smart Heating System combines advanced, energy efficient heating technologies designed to work seamlessly with Quantum, delivering a reliable, all-in-one heating and hot water solution for social housing.
The Edel hot water heat pump provides a low-carbon energy-efficient solution for the reliable provision of domestic hot water for social housing. Edel helps reduce carbon emissions across all new and existing dwelling types. When used for modelling in SAP 10.2 and RdSAP, Edel can help achieve updated Part L compliance and improve EPC ratings.
Edel
The Q-Rad electric radiator with infrared technology combines aesthetic appeal and reliability with high energy efficiency and intelligent controls, making it the ideal choice for the social housing sector. It has been designed to operate as a standalone heater, or as part of a smart heating system that uses Q-Rad along with Quantum off-peak high heat retention storage heaters and the Edel hot water heat pump for highly efficient delivery of hot water and space heating.
Q-Rad
The Zeroth Energy System
The Zeroth Energy System combines a central ambient loop with compact in-apartment heat pumps and is an energy efficient and flexible way to deliver space heating, domestic hot water and optional comfort cooling to social housing apartments. It utilises an ambient loop that is maintained at 25°C by a central plant, often a renewable source, or via a district heating network (DHN) connection. The central ambient loop is connected to in-apartment units that comprise a Zeroth water-water heat pump and hot water cylinder.
Social Housing Case Studies
South Kesteven District Council in Lincolnshire want to ensure their social housing tenants have access to the lowest energy costs. During the refurbishment of an off-gas, 3-bed end-of-terrace property, the council took the opportunity to install Dimplex Quantum high heat retention storage heaters providing access to low-cost energy tariffs. These were paired with the low-carbon Edel hot water heat pump to provide an energy efficient solution for both heating and hot water.
South Kesteven Council
The Llanrumney development offers a blueprint for future housing projects. For residents, it delivers affordable warmth, reliable hot water, enhanced comfort, and greater control over energy use. For the environment, it reduces emissions and accelerates progress toward net-zero housing. For the energy sector, it showcases how demand-shifting technologies like Quantum and Edel can support grid stability and renewable integration, making housing developments part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
Homes in Llanrumney
The Zeroth Energy System was paired with E.ON’s ectogrid™ to provide highly efficient, low carbon heating for Plot 6 of the Silvertown regeneration. Plot 6, developed by Landlease with Maccreanor Lavington as architect and Bryden Wood as M&E consultant, delivered 106 affordable homes in the last quarter of 2025. It marks the starting point of a 6,500-home development that will rank among the UK’s largest affordable housing projects.
Silvertown development
News
Government Confirms New Energy Efficiency Pathway for Social Housing
The UK Government has now published its response to the consultation on improving energy efficiency in the social rented sector (SRS MEES). The outcome represents a significant shift from the original proposals, introducing greater flexibility for social housing providers and clearer routes to compliance over the next 15 years.
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