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Your heat network resolutions for 2023
Have you got a plan of action for the year ahead? Entering a new year with the promise of a fresh start encourages many to set resolutions to achieve a goal or continue good practice - and heat...
Heat Networks Masterclasses – book now!
Chirpy Heat have two webinars coming up - a must for all housing professionals with heat networks in their remit. 1. Optimisation today, revolution tomorrow: maximising your heat network Thursday...
2022: Our year in review
With the festive season now well upon us and the year drawing to a close, our thoughts turn to reviewing 2022 and what it has meant for all things heat networks. We began our year with a team...
The spotlight is on heat networks in 2023: from understudy to centre stage
With more compliance, more costs, more heat networks - but more funding - 2023 heat networks will be taking centre stage next year. As the nights draw in, thermometers begin to drop and Christmas...
Energy Prices Act: what you need to know
BEIS update (18 November 2022) BEIS issued an update on the Alternative Fuel Payment on 18 November 2022, following the Chancellor's Autumn Statement: "As heat networks purchase energy through...
Heat network energy prices – bridging the cap
Update: On the 17th October 2022 (a week after we first published this blog), it was announced that the energy price guarantee would be scaled back from 2 years to 6 months, ending in April 2023,...
“Becoming Tariff-ic” webinar – Wednesday 28 September
Setting tariffs is critical to the financial health of a heat network. Getting them right means that customers get the right bills and only pay for the energy they use, and that schemes continue to...
Thousands of customers aren’t covered by the price cap – what can be done to protect them?
The UK is facing a major cost of living crisis and one of the main drivers for this is energy costs. BBC News recently published an article shedding light on the increase in prices faced by those...
Heat Network Compliance – are you ready for the 1st September deadline?
We all knew it would come round quickly, but in the blink of an eye 1st September is upon us. When it was introduced in November 2020, the heat network metering regulations felt a long time...
Are you regulation ready?
Have you got your heat network compliance shopping list ready? Ofgem will soon become the regulator and with their backing of the potential for unlimited fines for non-compliance, now is the time to...