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Too hot to handle | Labour’s heat conundrums

Too hot to handle | Labour’s heat conundrums

Home heating is clearly a topic that is too hot to handle for the main parties vying for votes in next week’s election. Both the Conservatives and Labour have pledged in their manifestos near identical pledges not to “rip out your boiler”. However, shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband has indicated that Labour could take a different approach to increasing public uptake of heat pumps. David Blackman reports. 

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Greens pledge to push for higher CfD strike prices and utility renationalisation

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Fuel poverty metric needs overhaul

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Call for auctions to reduce demand via energy efficiency measures

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Home upgrade scheme at risk of missing target by decades

8 months ago

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Ofgem awards £5.8m to 44 network innovation projects

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GB Insulation branded ‘great Tory fiasco’

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‘Draconian’ energy efficiency rules met with legal challenge

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Labour ditches £28bn green pledge after civil servants poke holes in costings

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Dozen energy efficiency projects win funding

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Next government urged to ditch gas ‘supply fixation’

11 months ago

Quarter of councils fail to enforce efficiency standards

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Budget for heat pump grants more than tripled

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Scottish heat upgrade plan labelled a ‘time bomb’

12 months ago

Scots scheme delivers just 215 home upgrades in three years

12 months ago

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