A new report from the Energy Systems Catapult (ESC) has looked at the operability of a net zero system in a bid to “generate conversation and debate”.
Supplier E.ON is offering home technical surveys, assessing a property's suitability for solar panels, air source heat pumps and insulation, using drones.
Electricity use is to be smartly managed across new housing developments - allowing them to include technology such as solar, heat pumps and electric vehicle (EV) chargers - as a result of a new solution from E.ON.
A third of Britons are now considering installing a heat pump in an effort to get off Russian gas, according to a new survey from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).
While there are now clear, long term goals in place across most infrastructure areas, there has been slow progress in others such as electric vehicle charging and heat pumps, the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has found.
A coalition of 38 civil society groups have called on government to support households facing surging energy bills, to scale up measures to reduce gas use and to drive forwards renewable energy.
Pursuing heat pumps and energy efficiency measures would be faster route to get off of Russian gas than proposed expansion of drilling in the North Sea.
The government will need to take a “careful, consultative” approach to the questions left unanswered in the Heat and Buildings Strategy, the Climate Change Committee has said.
