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Study: Heat pumps, solar, and EVs offer 'electro-fortification' against fossil fuel price shocks

Ember highlights how adoption of clean technologies is serving to strengthen UK energy security, as IEA concludes proposed international electrification target can be reached

Low-carbon crossing

Hydrogen-powered equipment can’t get to work without fuel and hydrogen fuel has no value without equipment to put it in. At the Lower Thames Crossing, National Highways is working...

Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests

Warm homes plan would create 50,000 jobs, compared with about 1,100 for Rosebank oilfield, thinktank findsInsulating Britain’s homes and investing in heat pumps would do more to cu...

Fabric First Approaches Are Stuck Thinking About Winter

“Fabric first” starts from a sensible building-efficiency idea. Improve insulation, stop unnecessary draughts, fix ventilation and reduce heat demand before replacing a gas or oil...

Burnham reveals plan to scrap standing charges on UK gas bills

Experts claim proposal could boost savings on offer from switching to heat pumps

Report: Low income homes risk being priced out of clean heating by uneven UK grants

ADE: Demand report find low-income homes could be paying five times more for clean heat than higher-earners

In defence of heat pump grants

Government insiders are briefing they want to cut heat pump grants that disproportionately go to wealthier households, but there is a strong case for a universal roll out of a tech...

High-temperature industrial heat pumps: an overview

Industry accounts for 38% of global energy consumption and consequently a large part of greenhouse gas emissions [1]. To achieve a 55% reduction in emissions by 2030 and reach net-...

Study: Waste heat network rollout could cut social and affordable housing energy bills by £142m

Warming 70,000 new social and affordable homes with waste heat and large air source heat pumps would prove far cheaper than electric panel heating, study finds

Domestic datacentres reduce home heating costs by £180 annually

A London homeowner has reduced hot water bills by up to £15 monthly using a domestic datacentre system that converts computer processing heat into usable energy. The technology, in...

'Flatlining': What's holding back the UK heat pump rollout?

The most recent heat pump installation figures make for worrying reading, but experts insist the policy changes and skills bottlenecks that are to blame can be overcome - if Minist...

Optimizing PV-driven heat pump operation for homes with poor thermal insulation

Chinese researchers have proposed a near-zero-energy retrofit for traditional homes on the western Sichuan Plateau, combining rooftop PV with an air-source heat pump. The system co...

Heidelberg supplies low carbon concrete in Piccadilly

Heidelberg has supplied low carbon concrete, using cement decarbonised through carbon capture, and containing GGBS, to Realtime Civil Engineering and Kier, for use on the Crown Est...

A quarter of Swiss buildings now have heat pumps

Switzerland’s housing stock is becoming greener. In 2025 one in four residential buildings was equipped with a heat pump, six times the share in 2000. Among homes built over the pa...

In a first, cement giant to tap thermal batteries for cleaner heat

Making the cement that holds together our buildings and streets is a highly carbon-intensive process — one that involves burning lots of fossil fuels to blast materials with searin...

Why Google is helping homeowners buy heat pumps

If you live in a certain part of the Bay Area, Google might help you buy a new heat pump—and could offer you as much as $10,000 to do it. In an innovative new proof-of-concept p...

Still heating your home with oil? You could now get £9,000 towards a heat pump

Households that heat their homes with oil or LPG can now get up to £9,000 towards an eligible heat pump installation – but the higher grant is only available until 31 March 2027

Complex issues: how to get your apartment block off gas – before it’s too late

Electrifying your block of flats could cut emissions and save money. Don’t wait to plan the changeChange by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to h...

Rather Than Have a Home Boiler, Labour Is Proposing to Barge in Hot Water to Heat British Homes

Oberlin project shows path to implementing geothermal system

The college used climate bonds to finance a geothermal heating and cooling system on its campus. 

New York to build state’s first two utility-scale thermal networks

For the past four years, the UpgradeNY coalition of clean energy, environmental, and labor groups has been pushing New York regulators to approve projects that could switch entire...

Massachusetts ups winter energy discounts for homes with heat pumps

Winter savings are in store for more than 65,000 Massachusetts households as two electric utilities slash their rates for heat pump owners below last year’s already discounted pric...

Big energy savings, reduced carbon footprint through heat recycling at Gundagai Meat Processors

A New South Wales red meat processor has implemented a staged heat recovery system that reduces natural gas consumption, improves refrigeration efficiency and removes the need for...

New Colorado neighborhood could offer glimpse into the future of home energy use

The partners behind a project in suburban Denver think they’ve found a way to accelerate the adoption of residential geothermal heating and cooling.