In this project, we partnered with the energy supplier Utilita to explore smart prepayment meter customers’ experience of participating in their version of the DFS called Power Payback. This will ...

When focusing on creating lasting social change, capturing learning and understanding impact is critical to enable us to prioritise what we do and account for progress we make towards our goals. At ...

The Get A Heat Pump website 12 provides further clarification, resources and guidance to help homeowners make well-informed decisions about the future of their home heating. This information does not ...

Entrepreneurs and early adopters can get sustainability transitions started, but reaching all parts of society is likely to need government support. Indoor sanitation started to become common in ...

How a green ratio of 2.5 to 1 would make a heat pump cheaper than a gas boiler over the same lifespan The chart below takes an example home and demonstrates how the running cost of a heat pump ...

At this very early stage in the responses to the pandemic, four narratives are taking shape, pointing us to quite different futures. These scenarios combine elements of continuity and discontinuity, ...

Heat pump users are highly satisfied with their heat pumps, considering them to be safe, reliable, quiet heat sources that are effective for space heating and producing hot water. Overall, ...

A new batch of Census 2021 data on housing has just been released, giving us a chance to see how homes across England and Wales are heated. Beyond being able to see whether homes have central heating ...

The impact of reducing the flow temperature of a domestic gas condensing boiler was measured at whole-house level under controlled conditions at the University of Salford Energy House test facility.

Data Poverty in Scotland and WalesWe heard of many people who were struggling to get online, but we found a lack of detailed information to quantify the scale and depth of data poverty. This report ...

Disadvantaged children in England are absent from early-years education more often than their peers, according to new research from the innovation charity Nesta. In the first systematic effort to ...

Toby worked with local governments to develop and pilot improvements to services that support young children and families. This report outlines the potential of AI tools in schools and colleges, and ...