Examining how levies affect household energy bills and assessing what can be done to reform electricity pricing structures to ensure fairness, affordability and progress toward clean heat.

Report investigating the motivations and barriers associated with becoming a heat pump technician trainer, as well as installers and trainers’ perceptions of the role.

Our report reveals the majority of Scots want to see bold action to transition away from fossil fuel heating within the next decade.

Aldersgate Group report mapping heat pump skills and workforce.

Biomethane is not a viable option for replacing fossil fuels to heat UK homes at scale, a new report commissioned by The MCS Foundation has found.

Low public awareness and perceived lack of incentives are discouraging British households from switching to time-of-use energy tariffs, even if this switch could save them money, a new report by The MCS Foundation reveals.

While UK homeowners recognise the benefits of improving home energy efficiency, many are still reluctant to make it a priority—highlighting a pressing need to rethink how the benefits of energy efficiency improvements like insulation, solar panels and heat pumps are communicated.  

A survey of 1,500 UK homeowners by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) – a cross-party think tank – has revealed government failure to make people feel confident in taking steps for the net zero transition, jeopardising its success.

Research shows that households living in a typical semi-detached new build would save an average of £1,342 a year, if the Government mandates solar panels, heat pumps and battery storage for all new homes.

Removing social and environmental levies from electricity bills could save consumers up to £300 a year and incentivise the uptake of heat pumps, a new independent report by Cornwall Insight and the MCS Foundation has said.

Local grid upgrades need to become a critical infrastructure priority over the next 25 years if we are to meet our legally binding carbon budgets, according to a new paper from the MCS Foundation and energy analysts Regen. 

With projected job numbers estimated to increase in the tens of thousands for the heat pump and solar sectors, and the hundreds of thousands across the building industry, we must recruit a new generation of skilled workers as retraining the existing workforce cannot meet all of this demand.

This report completed by ACE Research (ACE-R) at the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) details the Upskilling for Low-carbon Heating evaluation in the Private Rented Sector project.

The key message of this report is that a net zero ready grid is achievable. The priority now is moving from action plans to delivering reform and investment at pace.

Homeowners are planning energy efficiency upgrades that for the most part will not have a significant impact on carbon emissions, according to a new report.

This report explores why France is six years ahead of the UK in heat pump installation targets, and how the UK can catch up.

This report showcases what it would cost to heat homes via hydrogen heating.

In this Briefing Paper, the prospects for the future of home heating are analysed with specific reference to heat pumps and hydrogen heating.