Teignmouth’s Bitton Park, could help residents of Teign Housing ‘s sheltered housing complex – Bitton Court deal with the energy cost time bomb, already resident are spending a quarter of their income on heating. Early days, but research by Cllr Richard Ash in to micro energy generation has shown community-owned heat networks setting up energy generation from renewable sources like ground source heat pumps, can enable substantial energy savings. A ground source heat pump is a renewable heating system that extracts low-temperature solar energy stored in the ground or water using buried pipework and compresses this energy into a higher temperature. A ground source heat pump provides buildings with 100% of its heating and hot water all year round.