Energy efficiency is the best way to help the squeezed middle with bills Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg hurriedly introduced measures to protect households from higher energy prices from the 1st October 2022. […]
Heat Pumps: Cambridge Energy’s Agenda for Reform Three issues have converged for me over the past few months relating to heat pumps, which have given me new […]
Latest evidence on heating – and what difference would heat pumps make? By Nicola Terry Moving to zero carbon heating in homes is going to be a significant change to our heating […]
What’s next for household energy efficiency? Loft insulation and condensing boilers are not exactly aspirational, and most people outside the energy community are left curiously unexcited […]
Is this the biggest change to Building Regulations in the last 20 years? “Carbon emissions factors” don’t sound very exciting. In fact you have to look pretty hard to find anything at all […]
Why do house-builders keep fitting boilers so big they’ll never run at peak efficiency? Ordinarily you might expect very well insulated new homes to use smaller boilers. They don’t. Nor does systematic oversizing bring […]
How to Fix UK Energy Policy: Choose the right catastrophe I heard Professor John Loughhead from BEIS (the part of Government that now looks after energy) speak at the Royal […]
Ten tips for Successful Energy Monitoring More and more people are asking about the best way to monitor household energy use. There are policy pressures from […]
Comfort’s good, but should we risk the climate? Eva Wiseman’s article on Why you should never take comfort for granted in The Observer on 3 November 2013 and […]
How much heat do you lose through your party wall? It may surprise you to hear that you could be losing up to 10% of the heat from your home […]
