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1 December 2025
Chirpy Heat Conference 2025: Insight & Action for Regulation
Highlights from the 2025 Chirpy Heat Conference, exploring Ofgem regulation, sector insights, provider challenges, and Nicholas Doyle’s inspiring call to purpose....
7 October 2024
To B Corp or not to B Corp?
We set up Chirpy Heat because we wanted to find answers to all the questions we had when we worked in housing and were trying to deliver affordable, reliable and low carbon heat networks for customers. We were determined to...
22 August 2024
Heat Network Management in housing providers: past, present and future
As Chirpy Heat turns five, Director and Co-Founder Will Routh reflects on the journey of heat network management for housing providers, from managing communal boilers as part of their landlord duty to imminently becoming fully regulated energy companies. It’s a...
20 June 2024
Regulation – What do the insights show?
In 2025 all communal heating will be regulated by Ofgem. This will mean that housing providers will be treated in the same way as energy companies such British Gas and SSE. This is a big change. So how is the...
7 June 2024
The good, the bad and the ambiguous
Full heat network regulation is coming in Spring 2025. The social housing sector is by far the largest operator of heat networks in the country: how this regulation is developed and rolled out will have huge impacts for them and...
24 March 2024
Three questions to answer to be ready for the full regulations
In this blog, Nicholas Doyle, Director and Cofounder of Chirpy Heat, shines a valuable spotlight on the importance of answering three questions that will help you stay compliant with the first phase of full heat network regulation that begins on...
11 March 2024
A housing friend or foe?
There is an active – and heated – debate going on in the sector around heat zones that will include the mandatory connection to heat networks, and whether they are an opportunity for the sector or an imposition of more...
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