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…
District Heating
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Business as usual? Heating and cooling in the EU’s updated Renewable Energy Directive
On 28 June, a committee of MEPs finally signed off on a new EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), the…
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Ørsted launches landmark CCS project in Denmark
Danish renewables powerhouse Ørsted has won a 20-year contract from the Danish Energy Agency for its "Ørsted Kalundborg Hub" carbon…
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Let’s make clean heating a reality for low-income households
The cost of heating leaves many European households feeling burnt. Three-quarters of our heat is still supplied by expensive fossil…
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Should the EU count wood as a renewable fuel? Opinions are divided.
As EU lawmakers return to Brussels after the New Year holiday, they are prepping for a major battle over a…
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CEE countries must not spend EU money to finance natural gas in district heating
As the EU desperately tries to find ways to keep hundreds of millions of Europeans warm this winter without the…
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Ditching gas boilers for heat pumps will take EU “well beyond next winter”
As part of its REPowerEU proposal to end Russian fossil fuel imports, the European Commission announced an increase in its…
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UK homes should prioritise heat pumps over hydrogen
The UK government should prioritise expanding existing low-carbon heating solutions – including heat pumps, energy efficiency improvements and heat networks…
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Data centres, demand response and decarbonising the cloud
"People often ask me why data centres use so much energy,” says Tor Björn Minde from the state-owned Research Institutes…
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How Manchester is planning to get to net zero by 2038
What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow. This was the claim made by British Prime Minister…
