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27 January 2026
Social Housing – New Regulator, New Challenges, New Plans
After years in the making, new regulations for heat networks go live today, 27 January 2026. This change will have significant and long‑lasting effects for residents living on heat networks and for the social housing providers who manage most of them....
23 September 2025
Costs and compliance – getting budgets and pricing regulation ready
Navigating the costs swamp From consumer protection to technical standards, heat networks will be subject to a wide range of new requirements from January 2026. Part of consumer protection is to ensure that customers are treated fairly and get the...
8 September 2025
The Chirpy Guide to avoiding pointless busywork
(Or “How I learned to stop worrying about compliance and start loving the regulations”*) Heat networks are complicated – and the complication is going to get supercharged with full regulation by Ofgem. There is only one simple solution – create...
20 August 2025
Regulation rollout – helping heat network operators get confident and compliant with new requirements
Is your compliance journey sorted or a struggle? Full Ofgem regulations are being rolled out for of all heat networks across the UK. This means big changes for housing providers operating heat networks. Here at Chirpy Heat we are here...
2 March 2025
Feedback from our clients – Chirpy Heat Client Survey 2024
Listening to our clients and ensuring their voice is at the heart of our decision-making is particularly important to us. At the end of 2024, as part of our plan to guide us on our journey towards greater client engagement,...
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...
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