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  • 17
    Feb
    Monday 17th February 2025
    I was asked a question last week, “how would you assess the UK’s progress towards net zero?” It’s a fair question to ask and let’s just start with the facts – show me the numbers.
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  • 10
    Feb
    Monday 10th February 2025
    There has been considerable discussion about economic growth as the key policy for the government and some question whether this is compatible with net zero. In this debate, I want to add the ‘conservatory principle.’
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  • 3
    Feb
    Monday 3rd February 2025
    AI technology is already shaping our world.
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  • 27
    Jan
    Monday 27th January 2025
    Thousands of words will have been written about this, so I’m not going to repeat them all but for those of us who want to see climate change tackled let’s just acknowledge, it’s been a difficult week.
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  • 20
    Jan
    Monday 20th January 2025
    At a recent hearing of the Net Zero and Energy Security Select Committee, the head of the CCC, Emma Pinchbeck, made the point that there is less attention on adaptation to climate change compared to measures such as EVs and heat pumps to mitigate it.
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  • 13
    Jan
    Monday 13th January 2025
    The start of the year saw a flurry of media reports – across the mainstream outlets – saying the government has repealed the previous 2035 ban on the sale of boilers.
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  • 6
    Jan
    Monday 6th January 2025
    Firstly, Happy New Year, let’s hope 2025 brings all you wish for. It’s also the season of pantomime and I’m struck by the fact that there are heated debates about how we keep our homes warm, but rarely is there any interest in how we cook and how we provide for our hot water needs.
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  • 16
    Dec
    Monday 16th December 2024
    In my last blog of the year, I thought I would reflect on what has been a pretty tumultuous year and for EUA, thanks to its members, a pretty good one too.
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  • 9
    Dec
    Monday 9th December 2024
    Yes, it was a battering in west Worcestershire, but I got off lightly – power cuts for a few hours and a couple of hundred quids worth of damage.
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  • 2
    Dec
    Monday 2nd December 2024
    Last week I wrote about an under-discussed topic, secondary or supplementary heating, today I want to highlight another topic that must not be mentioned, gas cooking.
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  • 25
    Nov
    Monday 25th November 2024
    As I drove through blizzard conditions last Tuesday to catch a train to London, I needed no reminder that we are in the “heating season.”
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  • 18
    Nov
    Monday 18th November 2024
    It’s COP29 and as the private jets fly into the oil rich Azerbaijan the rest of us wait for news to filter out.
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  • 11
    Nov
    Monday 11th November 2024
    It’s a very English trait, being overly polite and apologising ahead of acting is just one of those behaviours we have grown up with.
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  • 4
    Nov
    Monday 4th November 2024
    As we head into the winter heating season, I am reminded that there are 130,000 or so Gas Safe Registered heating installers who day-in, day-out service, maintain and fit the 23 million or so gas heating appliances out there in people's homes.
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  • 28
    Oct
    Monday 28th October 2024
    Perhaps the most important song lyric of our generation and certainly one that will be played regularly as we approach the festive period.
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  • 21
    Oct
    Monday 21st October 2024
    Like so many of you, I have kids. They are grown up now but like every parent I had my trying times (it is all perfectly normal and not worthy of broadcasting), but I do remember when they used to get over-excited about things.
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