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New software technology promises to bring clarity and simplicity to what can be a minefield of regulatory compliance rules.
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Four out of the five participants in a hybrid heating trial conducted by the Energy Systems Catapult have expressed willingness to remove their gas boiler and rely entirely on a heat pump if they could buy heat as a service. They said fixing the costs of their heating would give them the confidence to leave their heating on for the longer periods of time a heat pump would need to warm their home.
The Ground Source Heat Pump Association begins 2020 with a new look and a new confidence that - with heat pumps emerging as a favoured option in the government's Future Homes consultation - the sector is about to come into its own.
The government has unveiled proposals to extend the powers of heat network developers, allowing them to carry out certain development and highways works. The publication of the consultation paper has been tied with the award of £40 million for seven heat networks
Heat pumps and networks look set to be the principal means of keeping Wales’ new homes warm from 2025, according to new draft building regulations. The Welsh government’s revisions to the regulations which govern energy use in new housing say there that while there may be a role for hydrogen in heating the homes of the future, it expects heat networks and pumps to be the principal source of low-carbon heating.
It will be a fascinating study in environmental politics, but what could Climate Assembly UK mean for utilities?
The UK must invest in ground source heat pump infrastructure in the 2020s, just as previous generations ploughed money into the gas and water grid, in order to help kickstart the fledgling sector, its trade body has claimed.
Graham Wright, chairman of the Heat Pump Association, on the important role heat pumps could play in the low carbon heat mix, and the need to increase the rate of installations to meet net-zero.
“The hardening attitudes of landowners towards utility companies has the potential to be a major stumbling block to achieving net zero.”
How will a new government deal with the National Infrastructure Commission’s recently published review of regulation? In the latest of our Voices series, Maxine Frerk sets out the case for action.
Regulating heat networks will protect consumers and reduce development risks, according to Charlotte Owen, policy officer at the Association for Decentralised Energy
