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Industry reacts to plans for new gas power stations and electricity market reforms
Consultation highlights 'lack of strategy and investment in clean energy'.
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Opinion
Boiler tax backlash: a sustainable shift or consumer challenge?
The impacts on consumers and the energy sector of the boiler tax controversy.
News
Calls for fully funded heat pumps and hydrogen to be ruled out
Government urged to vastly expand heat pump subsidies to meet net zero goals.
Special Report
Heat pumps hit four times gas boiler efficiency delivering savings despite electricity costs
Good Energy data shows heat pumps are delivering reduced annual energy bills compared with gas boilers.
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Ideal Heating expands installer support with Scottish training partnership
Ideal Heating expands UK training footprint with investment in new Scottish training facility
News
Customers benefit from wider choice as Bublshop becomes first UK distributor for Hisense
Bublshop recently added Hisense to the list of manufacturers it represents
News
£70m Kensa deal is ‘Britain’s biggest investment’ in ground source heat pumps
Octopus and Legal & General investment in ground source tech will drive down costs and kick start the sector.
Opinion
Heat Pump Association welcomes Government clarity and low carbon heating focus
HPA says government clarity will drive focus on low carbon heating and heat pumps.
News
Mixed response to ‘Green Day’ heat pump roll out announcements
The announcement of the Government’s ‘Energy Security Day’ growth plan, entitled ‘Powering Up Britain’, sets out the actions being taking to improve the UK’s energy security and stay on track for Net Zero and includes several initiatives designed to accelerate the rollout of heat pump systems across the UK.
Opinion
Why heat pumps are not the only route to home energy decarbonisation
Stelrad chief exec calls for government to broaden its focus beyond heat pumps
Further Reading
Opinion
Heat pump training grant welcomed by oil heating trade body as key to skill diversification
OFTEC says grant scheme compliments its investment in diverse installer skills.
Special Report
How a new policy model has created an island paradise for heat pumps
The Jersey model making electricity-based heating a far more cost-effective choice
News
DESNZ announces £5 million Heat Training Grant to support heat pump training
Heat pump training boosted by launch of £5 million Heat Training Grant
News
Career in gas is a ‘good choice’
In a further boost to the industry, a recent survey by Logic4Training has revealed that 70% of installers believe a career in gas is a good choice.
Opinion
Adding to the toolbox: do installers need to broaden their skills?
As the industry evolves to meet government targets to decarbonise homes across the UK, just how confident is the workforce to tackle the challenges ahead? Is the need for upskilling and retraining regarded as a positive step forward and how will installers navigate the surge in demand for heat pumps and updated installations?
News
More trials follow success of first UK hydrogen blend project
HyDeploy, the first project in the UK to blend hydrogen into a natural gas network, was hailed a success after customers used hydrogen blended gas safely in their homes for heat and energy without the need to make any changes to their existing appliances.
Opinion
Heat pumps in the headlines again – but what is the truth?
These kinds of headlines grab the public’s attention and, even if fundamentally incorrect, still spread misinformation and concern amongst the general public about heat pumps, whose trust the heating industry needs to win over if we are to achieve our legally binding Net Zero targets by 2050.
News
Sewage plants to heat homes?
Warmth may also be taken out of rivers, the sea, and old coalmines using heat pumps whilst heat from industries and incineration could be captured and piped to homes, hospitals, schools and offices.
News
Route to cleaner greener gas
Northern Gas Networks (NGN) has completed the project as part of H21, in collaboration with fellow gas distribution networks Cadent, Scottish Gas Networks and Wales & West Utilities. It builds on the earlier H21 Leeds City Gate project, which established a hydrogen conversion of the gas grid was technically possible and economically viable.
Opinion
No hope for heat pumps? Gas Users Organisation backs hydrogen
The Gas Users Organisation has branded the government’s commitment to move from gas to heat pumps as ‘premature’ and ‘prohibitively expensive’. This comes on the back of the recent Future Homes Standard consultation, in which the government outlined a heat pump orientated future: “A low carbon heating system will be integral to the specification of the Future Homes Standard and we anticipate that heat pumps will become the primary technology for new homes.”
Feature
New NHBC Foundation guide for New Homes Without Gas
This standard aims to significantly reduce the energy use of new homes and marks the beginning of the end for the traditional gas boiler.