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Nathan hosted a live podcast to discuss heat pumps at the industry's favourite show.

On the guest panel were Heat Architects Steve Webster and Si Posket along with the podcasts expert guest on commercial refrigeration Lisa-Jayne

Season 6 of BetaTalk is being sponsored by Farnell

We also like to thank the European Heat Pump Association and Key Mark in helping to promote life long learning within the sector

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Ofgem have been collecting performance data on heat pump installs and Nathan chats to Collin Meek from RB&M who has analysed the data.

The report summary can be found here

Learn what COP (coefficient of performance) SCOP and SPF (seasonal performance factor) all mean as well as their limitations.

Are heat pumps in the UK performing well? Find out in this great episode.

A big thanks to season 6 sponsors Farnell

Also a big thanks to Tado, The European Heat Pump Association and Key Mark who are helping to support life long learning in the sector

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Can a home have no energy bills? Yes. We chat to Nigel from Ilke Homes who have just partnered with Octopus Energy for an exciting project where the occupant is expected to pay no energy bills.

The homes will use heat pumps, lots of solar PV and batteries. Hear how they work on this episode. 

This episode is accompanied by a special patron episode where we go more into the detail of these Octopus and Ilke zero energy bill homes

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Meet Nathan's guest Tom Lowe who heads up the Thermal Storage Association with founding members SunAmp, Caldera and Tepeo.

Tom has had previous roles in OFGEM, British Gas and Buld Energy so there is lots of great discussion in this episode


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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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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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