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Experience a virtual tour of a house with a heat pump as part of Retrofit Action Week
Agh, thanks for pointing that out - corrected now!
Ooh, thanks yes will do! Haven’t quite got to grips with Bluesky yet!
Thanks a lot Iain! Have followed everyone you’ve recommended - so useful!
It’s price cap day, so here’s a quick explainer on what it is, and what’s changed - for all those who don’t spend their spare time poring over Ofgem spreadsheets 🤓 The energy price cap — an explainer medium.com/all-you-can-...
Ofgem, the GB energy regulator, has just announced an increase to the energy price cap, which will take effect in October 2024. This will…
One of the big failures of policy makers is not paying attention to how a new policy is actually going to work. Who's going to do it? How? The design team @nestauk.bsky.socialwww.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...
A collaborative process to design interventions to address large-scale policy challenges and systemic issues
*New piece* Do heat pumps work in rural areas? YES! Rural areas are where most UK heat pumps are, actually. In his net zero speech, Rishi Sunak slowed down the switch to heat pumps in rural areas. Instead, he should have been trying to accelerate it... www.nesta.org.uk/blog/do-heat...
Rural areas already form the backbone of Britain’s heat pump sector, and that is an opportunity we should build on, not walk away from.
Which suggests either data is wrong (it’s from English Housing Survey - but EPC database shows similar trend), or my pet theory: actually owner occupiers DO insulate their homes?? Or there’s a range of other things going on that i haven’t thought of….
Around 2.5m homes had measures under ECO (and GHG, HUG) during this period. Even assuming all these moved into EPC C+, that still leaves over 3m homes. Can assume some change due to MEES and social housing upgrades, but most change is in owner occupied sector
I’ve been looking a bit at this & it’s intriguing. It’s a longer term trend for a start. 18% of English homes were EPC A-C in 2012, up to 48% by 2021. About 7.6m more homes in bands A-C. There were around 2m new dwellings added over this period, likely to be higher EPC bands. Leaving another 5.6m…