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Clean heat
For clean heat to transform our day-to-day standard of living, householders need electricity bills that incentivise the switch, access to finance, understanding of the technology and consumer protections.
We’re exploring the policies needed within the Government’s Warm Homes Plan to deliver clean heat in a way that lowers bills for energy customers, boosts economic growth, and creates jobs across the country.
Energy UK has launched its Clean Heat campaign to ensure that, with the right policies in place, the Warm Homes Plan can help households and businesses switch from fossil fuel to clean heating systems.
This will meaningfully bring down energy bills by providing protection from volatile international wholesale gas prices and create the opportunity to use energy flexibly and secure bill savings, all while supporting growth and new jobs.
Join the clean heat discussion
Energy UK held a webinar Breakfast Briefing: How clean heat can bring down bills on Thursday 18 September.
Sponsored by Frontier Economics, the webinar included additional speakers from Octopus Energy, Mitsubishi Electric and Citizens Advice.
The panel discussed how to make it easier for consumers to access clean heat, and how to engage households on the transition.
The Clean Heat report series
With reliance on gas leaving British households financially stretched and vulnerable to volatile energy prices, it’s understandable that billpayers have come to hold the common belief that the cost-of-living crisis will never end.
However, the Government has presented a real opportunity to improve the living conditions of millions of people over this Parliament – significant investment in the Warm Homes Plan to improve the quality and efficiency of existing homes and buildings in the UK. This series of reports will explore policies needed to do this.
Balancing the bill
This is the first of Energy UK’s Clean Heat series of policy reports, which aim to show how the transition to clean heat can be delivered in a way that lowers bills for energy customers and boosts economic growth, jobs and skills across the country.
Financing the transition
This is the second of Energy UK’s Clean Heat series of policy reports, which aim to explores the actions needed to attract capital investment from both households and investors into the clean heat transition
Further reading
How to cut bills
The Clean Power Mission is crucial to reducing energy bills, but like any long-term infrastructure project, the full benefits of clean, homegrown energy will take time to materialise.
Achieving significant bill reductions over the next five years will require a step change from the Government. Energy UK is calling for a National Strategy on Energy Bills led by No.10 or the Treasury to drive change across Whitehall and deliver on this promise.
Explainers
Learn more about clean heat, its benefits and the developments ahead for the technology – and how the Clean Heat Market Mechanism works.
Case studies
Read how our members are innovating to decarbonise British businesses and the NHS, schools and public transport.
Blogs
Read about customer protections, EPC reform and what could incentivise households to switch to clean heat – and how we think a Warm Homes Plan should put people first.
Read thoughts on local distribution networks for homes and businesses, the potential for a UK heat pump manufacturing sector and why supporting businesses to decarbonise is money well spent.
Information for households and businesses
Consultation responses from Energy UK
- Extending the ECO4 end date
- DESNZ consultation on consumer-led flexibility consumer engagement
- Heat networks regulation: authorisation conditions and guidance on measures to mitigate the risk and impact of financial failure
- Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards in the Social Rented Sector in England
- Ofgem Heat networks regulation fair pricing protections
- Ofgem Call for Input on Exercising Consumer Choice: A review of the gas disconnections framework
- Reforms to the Energy Performance of Buildings regime
- Ofgem Heat networks regulations: authorisation and regulatory oversight
- DESNZ/Ofgem Heat network regulations: implementing consumer protections consultation
- Welsh Planning Reform consultation