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your guide to going electric

Helping you upgrade to a heat pump. Easy to understand advice in plain English.

The more you make, the cheaper it gets

How did Moore get all the glory? We’re living through a surge in clean tech production. Doyne Farmer's new book can tell us something about what happens next.

Retrofit Assessment vs Heat Pump Plan

Don’t make the mistake of buying the wrong kind of home energy advice service. Which one is right for you? Here’s our in-depth comparison.

Electricity prices go negative

It’s official. Getting paid to use electricity is the new normal.

Ovo's new Heat Pump Plus tariff

Is Ovo's new specialist tariff the best available?

From Moneyball to TacticsAI

Moneyball was the story of how big data changed sports. TacticsAI starts the next chapter.

Not the Spotify of heat pumps

Aira has been called the Spotify of heat pumps. I don't think that's right.

Cheaper heating from April

Electric Owl is now predicting a 20% cheaper heating bill when you make your home electric. How?

Gazprom relegated

As long as we are burning fossils, we need to get it from somewhere.

Energy is cheaper than 2023

The price we pay for energy has been falling. And recent trading in the gas & power markets says there is further to go.

Hire a warmth designer

Worried you’d be left cold if you got a heat pump? You should be.

What can Starling learn from Octopus?

If the underdog can offer a better experience, it can take on an established industry, and win.

Type-of-use tariffs

What could a type-of-use tariff do for heat pumps?

The renewable hostile takeover

Gas has long been in control of our energy system. But its grip is weakening. Another energy market is quietly emerging.

The price of carbon is up

The power markets are a window into the future. You can see the powerful forces that are reshaping the energy system.

Who makes the Tesla of heat pumps?

Buy the hardware with the best software. The hardware inside many makes and models is usually more or less the same. But the controls & UX can be wildly different.

Natural gas prices are going up. And staying up.

Gas for delivery next winter is more than triple what would have been considered normal before the war.

Heat pumps decoded

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