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Extracting and storing human body heat we generate could improve building sustainability while cutting bills.
Many people want to know about practical suggestions to help slow climate change. Effective action starts at home.
Shared ground heat exchanges could provide low-carbon heating for up to 80% of homes in the UK, research suggests.
Electricity, not what the EU calls ‘renewable gases’, offer the fastest route to decarbonising heating.
People in some areas are paying hundreds of pounds more to heat their homes every year.
Electric vehicle sales are booming and coal power is dwindling, but structural obstacles to net zero remain.
Electric boilers can be a green heating alternative, an expert says.
The UK prime minister has been setting out ambitions to be a world leader in the coming hydrogen economy.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending plans may thwart the government’s proposals for reach net zero.
The strategy is welcome, but does not go nearly far enough.
More ambitious plans for making the UK’s homes energy efficient could create 22,545 new full-time jobs.
A shift to heating our homes by heat pumps would put massive pressure on the electricity grid.
The government’s failure to insulate housing stock has meant that households aren’t insulated from record energy prices.
Insulate Britain, a new environmental campaign group, is right to highlight the need for action on home insulation.
What if you could pay to heat your home the same way you pay to stream music? You can with heat-as-a-service.
Heat pumps are the technology of choice for heating and cooling buildings more efficiently and with fewer carbon emissions than furnaces and air conditioning.
District heating can recycle waste heat and pump it where it’s needed.
HFCs keep refrigerators cool, but when these short-lived climate pollutants leak, they warm the planet.
Per capita electricity use was higher in the 1970s than today.
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Development, Heriot-Watt University
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Lecturer, Energy Informatics Group, Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sustainability, University of Dayton
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Energy Advisor, formerly, The University of Melbourne
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Reader in Energy Policy, University of Aberdeen
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Professor & Director, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
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Professor of Spatial Science, University of Leeds
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Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems, Nottingham Trent University
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Affiliate, Electricity Markets & Policy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Professor of Systems Science and Director, Clinical Science and Engineering Research Laboratory, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Sustainable Energy Business and Policy, University of Strathclyde
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Senior Lecturer and Research Manager, University of East London
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Head of School of Mechanical and Design Engineering, University of Portsmouth
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