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In this first episode of season 6 I chat with some of the people in the Carbon CoOp team

You can hear what they are all about and how they have been helping people navigate through the cacophony of retrofit and renewable heating advice. They are one of my favourites out there and really understand the challenge.

Matt is very much an enthusiast, like myself, in monitoring  buildings and heating with sensors etc in order to engender better outcomes and encourage learning.

In keeping with an IoT theme please welcome my new sponsor: Farnell, who have an event happing soon. They also have a Raspberry Pi Solutions Kit and you will hear me discuss Raspberry Pi with the Carbon Coop team on this episode.

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Nathan speaks to his good friend and his control expert David Newton. David started his career in controls back in the 70s and has interesting stories.

The conversation centres around the fact it is not a technical problem which needs solving but a human one. 

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In this episode Nathan talks to Thomas Nowak the Secretary General of the EHPA.
Thomas has a wealth of knowledge in the European Heat Pump space and has  been disseminating good advice for quite some time.

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We are currently the #1 energy podcast in the UK here

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In this episode Nathan chats to retired physicists Michael de Podesta about his video on how to quickly get an idea of the heat loss of your home.

You can follow him on Twitter at  @Protons4B and find his blog here

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One of my favourite conversations:

Adam is a rare entity. He is a heating engineer but understands extremely well the tech world now entering the heating industry and will play an important part. 

It is a frank conversation and we hope you enjoy and get something from it

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The Renewable Heat Incentive is about to finish and the Boiler Upgrade Scheme is about to start.

Heat pump installation companies have found themselves in a state of limbo and an open letter has been drafted to put forward their concerns to BEIS and OFGEM

This episode is in response to those concerns and features policy expert Richard Lowes, Dan Kelly & Jim McKenzie  from https://www.dartmoorenergy.co.uk/, regular guest Leah Robinson from https://www.yourenergyyourway.co.uk/, and other regular guests James Clark from https://www.elitesg.co.uk/ and Steve Webster from https://www.egeenergy.com/

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Nathan knows the good people at NESTA quite well and likes their pragmatism. In this episode Nathan has a chat with Madeleine Gabriel the sustainable mission director and Andrew Sissons, the deputy mission director.

They discuss insulation and how you do not need deep retrofit for heat pumps to work, even efficiently. 

Conversation also discusses the cost of heat pump installations and the electricity price.

A great episode

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In this episode Nathan chats with regular guest host Ken Bone and Rachael Peterson an electronics and software engineer. Both guests are early adopters of battery technology for use within their own homes.

They also have PV and Heat Pumps and a bonus episode exists on the patreon site where you can hear both guests talk about the integration of all these technologies

Fasten your seat belts for this one.

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Nathan chats to Stephanie who was monitoring heat pump systems out in Canada.

One of the things Nathan is passionate about is using monitoring and Smart HTC to measure real heat loss. 

Monitoring can also be used to establish performance and highlight either faulty equipment or bad installation practice.

In the Autumn of 2021 Nathan gave evidence to a policy commission involving members of BEIS, the CCC and OFGEM on the importance of monitoring.

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Gas prices have risen. This is having a dramatic effect on the poor. Nathan discusses the sorry state of ECO, the Energy Companies Obligation and how boilers have been installed in such a way that the heating systems in the homes of the fuel poor are not as efficient as they should be. Is anyone to blame? Is anyone researching this?

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