An air source heat pump is a complete domestic heating and hot water system. It represents a flexible and cost-effective alternative to a fossil fuel boiler, with, in some instances, a cooling option. Air source heat pumps are classed as renewable technology, because they extract heat from a renewable source - the air around us! In one year the energy sent to the earth by the sun is 50 times higher than the total consumption of energy on our planet. This makes the sun a vast and inexhaustible source of energy.