Want to know what it’s like living with a heat pump? Free on 8 October, 12-1? Then join a virtual tour with Nesta and heat pump owner Lucy Haden - she’ll give a virtual tour and answer questions online. Sign up details 👇🏻 www.nesta.org.uk/event/inside...
Experience a virtual tour of a house with a heat pump as part of Retrofit Action Week
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.