Built environment

Weekly data: why scrapping a key UK heat pump target threatens net zero

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has to plan for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 because his predecessor – and…

EU Heat Pump Action Plan can deliver Europe’s Renewable Renaissance

The delayed EU Heat Pump Action Plan, now locked in the Commission’s political permafrost until after the European Parliament elections…

How to build sustainable housing for three billion

There is a global sustainable housing crisis. Not only is the built environment –including construction and energy use – responsible…

EU, UK set course for scrapping gas boilers

This month, both the EU and UK governments have come out with plans to phase out home gas boilers. This…

A heat pump alternative for a quarter of UK homes

Household heating is the source of 17% of the UK’s carbon emissions. Most of the country’s homes are still heated…

Weekly data: Republican states are hoovering up most of Biden’s IIJA clean energy and power funds

November marks the two-year anniversary of Joe Biden’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a key feature of the…

Heat pumps essential to reaching net-zero goals – IEA report

When it comes to policy signals, the European heat pump industry has not had a good month. In September, as…

‘I beg to differ’: international industry experts reject Sunak’s comments on heat pumps

Heat pumps are an “obvious” solution for national decarbonisation and recent comments on the technology by UK Prime Minister Rishi…

Rendesco invests £150m in ground-source heat pumps for UK new-builds

Rendesco, a UK-based ground-source geothermal heat developer, recently announced it is developing a gross pipeline of more than £150m ($187m)…

Can China decouple emissions from economic growth?

Since the first known use of coking coal in blast furnaces in early 18th-century Britain, prompting the start of the…

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