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Codrina Cretu, mission manager in Nesta’s sustainable future team, explains why making the transition to green heating easier is so important.

Madeleine Gabriel, Mission Director in Nesta’s sustainable future team, discusses its money-saving boiler challenge and how it can help households this winter.

Nesta’s Codrina Cretu looks at the impact of planning rules on heat pump installations.

Nesta, the UK’s innovation charity, is committed to finding ways to speed up home decarbonisation. Heat pumps are the best current technology to support the decarbonisation of homes and we want to increase take-up of the heating technology, but there are only 250,000 UK homes with a heat pump. We’re making it fast and simple […]

Nesta has conducted a survey of heat pump owners to learn more about household experiences of using a heat pump and how those experiences compared to fossil fuel-based heating systems. It has published a report summarising the findings, which include: heat pump users are highly satisfied with their heat pumps, considering them to be safe, […]

A coalition of 20 organisations led by E3G – including Octopus Energy, the UK Green Building Council, MCS and Nesta – have written to the government concerning the recent Hydrogen Champion Report, led by Jane Toogood. The letter to Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, says it […]

Mixergy has received £9.2 million in funding to support a new R&D centre at its Oxfordshire headquarters, the further development of their home energy and heat storage technology, and international expansion. Mixergy has a suite of IP around hot water heating, heat pump and home energy management technologies. Their patented top-down approach to heating exploits […]

Nesta, the UK’s innovation agency, has renewed its partnership with InstallerSHOW for the 2023 event, taking place at the NEC, Birmingham in June. Carla Hallmark-Jones of Nesta said: We are thrilled to be working with InstallerSHOW again this year to support out mission to achieve a sustainable future, where people can heat their homes more […]

Nesta has analysed the 2021 census data and found that almost three-quarters of households in England and Wales (74%) reported that they use gas central heating as the only way to heat their homes, down from 78% in 2011. Although gas remains dominant in most of the country, the analysis of the census data finds […]

Nesta has called for the government to launch an energy-saving campaign as part of its review of the Energy Price Guarantee. Madeleine Gabriel, Director of Sustainable Future at Nesta, said: “A Government energy saving campaign is the missing plank of a responsible long-term plan for energy bill support. “Many households will continue to need direct […]

A coalition of 37 charities and organisations – including Energy Saving Trust, Greenpeace and Nesta – has written to the Government ahead of the upcoming Energy Independence Plan, calling for immediate support for households facing steep energy price rises. The letter comes after the government announced plans for a new Energy Independence Plan, aimed at […]