Weekly column by EUA's Chief Executive
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10
Mar
“The Kaleidoscope has been shaken. The Pieces are in flux.”
10th Mar 2025
It was over twenty years ago when the Prime Minister of the day said those words and given events now, I can’t help feeling we are...
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3
Mar
Stopping the tide or going with the flow?
3rd Mar 2025
Maybe it’s my part-Nordic ancestry but I often come to the defence of King Canute who is so often misunderstood.
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24
Feb
Holed below the waterline – pro heat pump advocates torpedo heat pumps
24th Feb 2025
I’m going to repeat EUA’s view that heat pumps, heat networks and green gas boilers will all play a role in decarbonising dom...
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17
Feb
Upstream is where the action is
17th Feb 2025
I was asked a question last week, “how would you assess the UK’s progress towards net zero?” It’s a fair question...
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10
Feb
Net zero meets the ‘conservatory principle.’
10th Feb 2025
There has been considerable discussion about economic growth as the key policy for the government and some question whether this is compa...
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28
Jan
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27
Jan
What has Trump done to net zero?
27th Jan 2025
Thousands of words will have been written about this, so I’m not going to repeat them all but for those of us who want to see clima...
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20
Jan
20th Jan 2025
At a recent hearing of the Net Zero and Energy Security Select Committee, the head of the CCC, Emma Pinchbeck, made the point that there...
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13
Jan
What caused a flurry of media reports?
13th Jan 2025
The start of the year saw a flurry of media reports – across the mainstream outlets – saying the government has repealed the...
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6
Jan
6th Jan 2025
Firstly, Happy New Year, let’s hope 2025 brings all you wish for. It’s also the season of pantomime and I’m struck by t...
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16
Dec
The benefits of sticking together
16th Dec 2024
In my last blog of the year, I thought I would reflect on what has been a pretty tumultuous year and for EUA, thanks to its members, a pr...
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9
Dec
Storm Darragh, the shape of things to come?
9th Dec 2024
Yes, it was a battering in west Worcestershire, but I got off lightly – power cuts for a few hours and a couple of hundred quids wo...
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2
Dec
Cooking the books against gas, who would do such a thing?
2nd Dec 2024
Last week I wrote about an under-discussed topic, secondary or supplementary heating, today I want to highlight another topic that must n...
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25
Nov
Winter is here, turn on the heat
25th Nov 2024
As I drove through blizzard conditions last Tuesday to catch a train to London, I needed no reminder that we are in the “heating se...
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18
Nov
Carbon credits back on the agenda
18th Nov 2024
It’s COP29 and as the private jets fly into the oil rich Azerbaijan the rest of us wait for news to filter out.
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11
Nov
“Sorry, can I interrupt you there.”
11th Nov 2024
It’s a very English trait, being overly polite and apologising ahead of acting is just one of those behaviours we have grown up with.
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4
Nov
Speaking up for the small installer business
4th Nov 2024
As we head into the winter heating season, I am reminded that there are 130,000 or so Gas Safe Registered heating installers who day-in,...
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28
Oct
“Feed the world, let them know it’s Christmas time again.”
28th Oct 2024
Perhaps the most important song lyric of our generation and certainly one that will be played regularly as we approach the festive period.
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21
Oct
Are some lobbyists getting too excited?
21st Oct 2024
Like so many of you, I have kids. They are grown up now but like every parent I had my trying times (it is all perfectly normal and not w...
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14
Oct
Have we just bid farewell to net zero?
14th Oct 2024
Last week may have been just a blip or events may have conspired for historians to look back and say that this was the week the UK’...
Mike Foster
EUA's Chief Executive
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