A new strategic partnership between Lloyds Banking Group, Octopus Energy and Halifax is aiming to introduce air-source heat pumps for Halifax customers and boost the rollout of zero-carbon heating.
Two EDF Energy-led projects have been awarded grant funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) under its £60 million Heat Pump Ready Programme.
Smart thermal storage could be used to reduce peak electricity demand on the coldest day of the year by 1.6GW by 2030, Thermal Storage UK outlined in a new report.
Octopus Energy’s cloud-native platform Kraken Technologies will be utilised in Belgium to control heat pumps and other energy technologies to reduce household bills amid the energy crisis.
Greater Manchester is set to gain its first low-carbon hydrogen fuel hub courtesy of developer Carlton Power having secured planning permission for phase one of a £300 million scheme.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is to provide £1.5 billion to improve the energy efficiency of 130,000 low-income households across the UK.
Cornwall Insight has released a new report indicating that under the UK Government’s current plans for hydrogen, fuel bills could increase by 70% to 90% more than gas on average.
Governmental targets for energy saving upgrades are “woefully off track” with 2020 heat pump sales per household the lowest in Europe, according to a new report from Cambridge Econometrics.
In a bid to mitigate the rising costs of gas and fossil fuels and support the energy transition, the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) and Climate Change Committee (CCC) has written to Liz Truss advocating for the expansion of renewables.
Greenwich is set to be the focus of a feasibility study aiming to explore the possibility of switching gas-heated homes in a high-density area to ground source heat pumps.
