Kensa adds in-house geothermal drilling
19th February 2025
UK: Kensa, the ground-source heat pump manufacturer, has established an in-house drilling service.
Seen as a significant step for the company, Kensa says the investment adds resilience to its existing supply chain and ensuring rapid, affordable and high quality ground-source heat pump solutions that can be delivered efficiently and at scale.
The company estimates that by 2040, up to 8,000 UK homes a week could be connecting to ground-source heat pumps, primarily through a networked heat pump model.
By investing in its own in-house drilling capabilities, in addition to continuing to work with its existing drilling suppliers, Kensa says it can meet its long-term commitment to rapidly scaling and driving down the costs of UK ground-source heat pump deployment.
Kensa’s drilling capabilities will be run by an experienced team of specialists, headed up by Steffan De Vries as director of drilling and Rory Snell as head of drilling operations. Both previously worked for leading UK geothermal drilling company GeoTech Developments.
“Over the years we’ve built strong relationships with drilling suppliers across the UK, and we remain committed to these,” explained Kensa COO Camilla Barrow. “Launching our own drilling function complements those existing relationships and puts the industry in a brilliant position to decarbonise heat at the scale required.”
