Decarbonising home heating is a key priority in the UK’s strategy to cut emissions, and heat pumps are expected to play a pivotal role. The UK government and the Climate Change Committee have both ...

In this project, we partnered with the energy supplier Utilita to explore smart prepayment meter customers’ experience of participating in their version of the DFS called Power Payback. This will ...

When focusing on creating lasting social change, capturing learning and understanding impact is critical to enable us to prioritise what we do and account for progress we make towards our goals. At ...

Beautiful, easy data visualization and storytelling[1] A nutrient profile score is a holistic measure of health that assigns a score to food products based on their nutritional content (energy, sugar, ...

What we found Understanding of the term ‘green jobs’ was low across both genders, with women having lower understanding than men. Thus, to improve awareness and understanding of green jobs, it may be ...

Entrepreneurs and early adopters can get sustainability transitions started, but reaching all parts of society is likely to need government support. Indoor sanitation started to become common in ...

How a green ratio of 2.5 to 1 would make a heat pump cheaper than a gas boiler over the same lifespan The chart below takes an example home and demonstrates how the running cost of a heat pump ...

The impact of reducing the flow temperature of a domestic gas condensing boiler was measured at whole-house level under controlled conditions at the University of Salford Energy House test facility.

At this very early stage in the responses to the pandemic, four narratives are taking shape, pointing us to quite different futures. These scenarios combine elements of continuity and discontinuity, ...

Heat pump users are highly satisfied with their heat pumps, considering them to be safe, reliable, quiet heat sources that are effective for space heating and producing hot water. Overall, ...

A new batch of Census 2021 data on housing has just been released, giving us a chance to see how homes across England and Wales are heated. Beyond being able to see whether homes have central heating ...

This report primarily uses data on heat pumps from EurObserv’er for the years between 2011 and 2021. The majority of the heat pumps in this dataset are air-to-air heat pumps, many of which are used ...