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UK housebuilders to face 'zero carbon ready' standard from 2025
UK housebuilders to face 'zero carbon ready' standard from 2025

Government confirms Future Homes Standard will apply to any new homes built from 2025, delivering a major uptick in the pace of the shift away from gas boilers - but campaigners are left disappointed by failure to adopt more rapid timetable

  • Buildings
  • 20 January 2021
Smart home energy market the focus of new consumer protection drive
Smart home energy market the focus of new consumer protection drive

Citizens Advice teams up with energy industry groups to try and identify any gaps in consumer protections for burgeoning flexible home energy market

  • Energy
  • 15 January 2021
Legal & General pumps up financial backing for low-carbon heat
Legal & General pumps up financial backing for low-carbon heat

Financial giant Legal & General has announced additional backing for heat pump technology, building on investments made last year

  • Investment
  • 08 January 2021
Green financiers plot wave of zero carbon heating offers
Green financiers plot wave of zero carbon heating offers

New report from Green Finance Institute identifies barriers to investment in green heating systems and trails series of new demonstration projects

  • Investment
  • 09 December 2020
A huge shake-up in domestic heating is on its way - and the heat pump industry is primed
A huge shake-up in domestic heating is on its way - and the heat pump industry is primed

A level playing field between heating technologies and an increase of the installer base are needed to drive a major rollout of heat pumps, argues the HPA's Graham Wright

  • Infrastructure
  • 03 December 2020
Industry and campaigners welcome extension of Green Homes Grant scheme
Industry and campaigners welcome extension of Green Homes Grant scheme

PM commended for decision to push end date for national buildings retrofit programme back by a year, following high profile concerns that the industry needs to build up capacity to deliver the £3bn scheme

  • Efficiency
  • 18 November 2020
'Laying the groundwork': Heat Pump Association calls for heating policy revamp
'Laying the groundwork': Heat Pump Association calls for heating policy revamp

Major new report sets out a series of recommendations for accelerating roll out of green heat technologies, as trade body warns UK is 'significantly behind' scheduled with its heat decarbonisation efforts

  • Policy
  • 13 November 2020
EDF inks heat pump partnership as calls grow for post-boiler strategy
EDF inks heat pump partnership as calls grow for post-boiler strategy

Energy giant partners with Daikin for heat pump offer, as new report warns 'boiler backlash' could derail net zero agenda

  • Technology
  • 04 November 2020
Zero Carbon Heating Taskforce: UK experts bid to overcome barriers to greener buildings
Zero Carbon Heating Taskforce: UK experts bid to overcome barriers to greener buildings

Taskforce includes members of the Green Finance Institute, the Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings, and the Association for Decentralised Energy, among others

  • Infrastructure
  • 17 September 2020
Race to decarbonise UK heat finally warms up
Race to decarbonise UK heat finally warms up

New research has illuminated some of the challenges the UK government faces as it works to decarbonise the UK's heating system

  • Technology
  • 03 September 2020
Good Energy to launch home heat pump tariff in UK first
Good Energy to launch home heat pump tariff in UK first

Green energy supplier claims new flexible tariff will make it 'easy and affordable' for customers to transition away from gas boilers

  • Buildings
  • 27 July 2020
CBI calls for 2025 gas boiler phase-out to keep net zero on track
CBI calls for 2025 gas boiler phase-out to keep net zero on track

Government feels the heat over yawning gap in UK gas decarbonisation policy from two major reports from the CBI and the Net Zero Infrastructure Commission

  • Buildings
  • 22 July 2020
When it comes to low carbon heating, the government must up the ante
When it comes to low carbon heating, the government must up the ante

Energy efficiency measures work best when designed around new green heating systems such as heat pumps, argue IPPR's Jonathan Webb and Joshua Emden

  • Policy
  • 16 July 2020
UK risks going cold on heat decarbonisation, think tank warns
UK risks going cold on heat decarbonisation, think tank warns

IPPR calculates that government has to date supported just two per cent of the heat pumps the UK needs to deploy to meet its net zero emissions goals

  • BusinessGreen
  • 15 July 2020
'From zero carbon heat laggard to leader': Green groups urge government to back heat pumps in recovery plans
'From zero carbon heat laggard to leader': Green groups urge government to back heat pumps in recovery plans

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, CPRE and Possible propose 'cash for clunkers' scheme, and urge government to prioritise heat pumps over hydrogen in its green heating plans

  • Buildings
  • 04 July 2020
Centrica throws weight behind UK heat electrification drive amid hydrogen cost fears
Centrica throws weight behind UK heat electrification drive amid hydrogen cost fears

British Gas owner says UK should target one million heat pumps by 2025 as it fears hydrogen domestic heating may be a decade away

  • Energy
  • 02 July 2020
'Energy policy face palm': Heat pump firms call on government to rethink clean heat plans
'Energy policy face palm': Heat pump firms call on government to rethink clean heat plans

Low Carbon Farming, Black Mountain and Zero Carbon Yorkshire have joined a campaign that calls on the government to revise its low carbon heat strategy to support the development of large-scale heat pumps, a sector they contend could help the UK drive...

  • Buildings
  • 08 June 2020
Government reveals plans to accelerate low carbon heating rollout
Government reveals plans to accelerate low carbon heating rollout

Proposals to replace RHI include Clean Heat Grants of up to £4,000 for homes and business for heat pumps and other technologies

  • Biomass
  • 28 April 2020
Legal & General snaps up stake in ground source heat pump firm Kensa Group
Legal & General snaps up stake in ground source heat pump firm Kensa Group

Financial giant acquires 36 per cent share in one of UK's largest green heating developers

  • Energy
  • 20 April 2020
Is smaller better? Large scale green tech 'not the best way' to reach net zero, study finds
Is smaller better? Large scale green tech 'not the best way' to reach net zero, study finds

Nuclear plants, CCS, and whole-building retrofits should not be prioritised over smaller cheaper alternatives, study argues, while acknowledging small scale technologies do not offer a panacea

  • Technology
  • 02 April 2020
Study: Electric cars and heat pumps lead to much lower CO2 emissions in most of the world
Study: Electric cars and heat pumps lead to much lower CO2 emissions in most of the world

Study by universities of Exeter, Cambridge, and Nijmegen assessed lifecycle impact of electric cars and heat pumps on CO2 compared to fossil fuel equivalents

  • Automotive
  • 23 March 2020
Could 'mobile phone-style bundles' signpost way to decarbonising heat?
Could 'mobile phone-style bundles' signpost way to decarbonising heat?

  • Energy
  • 27 February 2020
Welsh Government plots end to fossil fuel energy in all new homes by 2025
Welsh Government plots end to fossil fuel energy in all new homes by 2025

Proposals unveiled to boost energy efficiency standards for new homes in bid to cut CO2, reduce bills and tackle fuel poverty

  • Buildings
  • 21 January 2020
City hall: London zero carbon building rules are delivering carbon cuts
City hall: London zero carbon building rules are delivering carbon cuts

EXCLUSIVE: Green building targets for the capital are driving developers to invest in low carbon homes and technologies, City Hall figures indicate

  • Energy
  • 05 November 2019
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