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Smart meter rollout progresses amid challenges
Progress yet challenges in the UK's smart meter rollout. DESNZ is striving for every home and business to have a smart meter, aiming for net-zero targets and savings.
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OFTEC launches discounted heat pump training following £9.2m BEIS funding
Installers in England can access heat pump training at a discounted rate of up to 70%.
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‘Heat pump talk’ guide launched to help installers overcome consumer barriers
A new guide supporting heating engineers to help customers make an informed decision, has been developed by the net zero innovation centre, Energy Systems Catapult.
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OFTEC BEIS funding success to boost training for heat pump installers
OFTEC received BEIS funding to expand energy efficiency to boost number of heat pump installers.
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Brewery trials innovative heat pump following £406k award
Futraheat awarded £406,000 from BEIS to trial innovative heat pump at Hepworth Brewery.
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Is THIS is the future of heat pump installation?
Total Heat Pump Installation Solution (THIS) is a new software package and supporting app promising to revolutionise the heat pump sector. We probed a little deeper into what exactly the software entails.
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MCS and Energy Saving Trust’s heat pump ready scheme gets funding
MCS and Energy Saving Trust awarded funding under Stream 2 of the BEIS Heat Pump Ready Programme.
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60% of homeowners in favour of solar installation
BEIS survey reveals 60% homeowners in favour of solar installation.
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Comprehensive net zero guide presents new opportunities for UK installers and consumers
Net zero is one step closer thanks to a new set of guidelines from the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI).
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Ventive develops ‘first of its kind’ heat pump and ventilation system
Ventive is to develop a ground-breaking and fully integrated intelligent home solution at a new manufacturing facility at Hartlebury in Worcestershire.
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Opinion
GSHPA welcomes BEIS report on heat decarbonisation
and installers across the UK, welcomes the BEIS select committee’s recently released report on heat decarbonisation.
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Cut-price heat pump training for installers from Panasonic
Panasonic has teamed up with Optimum Energy to create a huge opportunity for installers to upskill, part-funded by the government. With this fantastic offer you can book onto courses which normally cost £750 per person, for just £45 for dates throughout October.
Opinion
Installer schemes must learn from Green Homes Grant failings
The Government has identified decarbonising home heating as a key part of its plan to deliver net zero by 2050.1 Between September 2020 and March 2021, as part of government’s ‘green recovery’ from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (the Department) ran the Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme (the scheme). The scheme offered homeowners up to £5,000 funding, or £10,000 for low-income households, for the installation of energy efficient improvements.
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Why did the Green Homes Grant Scheme fail? Have your say
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Northern Gas Networks, BEIS and Cadent to build hydrogen houses
The UK’s first houses to demonstrate the use of hydrogen-fuelled appliances in a real-world setting are to be built by Northern Gas Networks (NGN), the company has announced.
Opinion
Green Homes Grant – what now?
On 8th February the Government reluctantly admitted that it had issued just 20,000 GHG vouchers since the scheme began in Autumn 2020, immediately hampering efforts towards the PM’s ambitious 600,000 heat pump installations per year by 2028. Then just days later the situation was exacerbated when it was announced that hundreds of millions of pounds would be withdrawn from the scheme entirely.
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The Green Homes Grant: what installers need to know
It has been just over three months since the government’s Green Homes Grant was rolled out for consumers and installers alike, yet the scheme has already been beset by teething problems. The most pressing issue is that of installer uptake and availability. Under its terms, installers must be Trustmark, PAS or MCS certified to carry out the eligible home improvements; however, consumer demand for the scheme has seemingly outstripped supply.
Opinion
Green Homes Grant – Much needed boost or mismanaged botch?
Depending on what you read, the Government’s hastily deployed Green Homes Grant is either a quick win for both energy conscious home owners and installers alike, or an ill-executed appeasement plan to divert attention from the perpetually delayed Energy White Paper.
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Solar PV forecast as cheapest power generating technology in UK
New Government figures indicate large-scale solar will be lowest cost deploy and maintain over the next two decades.
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UK renewable generation surged to new high in 2019
Renewable energy provided a record 37.1% of the UK’s electricity in 2019 – up from 33.1% in 2018, according to the latest government statistics.
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Government set to ramp up smart meter installations
Annual milestones and a six month extension for energy suppliers is set to be part of a four-year policy framework set out by the government to ensure that all reasonable measures to install smart meters in households and small businesses have been taken.
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BEIS PAT 2020: Strong support shown for renewable energy
The Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT) survey looks into public attitudes towards Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) policies including climate change, artificial intelligence, workers’ rights and much more.
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Industry welcomes Clean Heat Grant proposals
Industry bodies and renewable heating suppliers have cautiously welcomed the Government’s publication of its consultation on future support for low carbon heat.