Blog

Uponor advances pre-insulated pipes with Ecoflex VIP Thermo10.6.2021Uponor advances pre-insulated pipes with Ecoflex VIP ThermoOur extensive experience working on high-performance heating systems means that we know what installers and specifiers need their pipes to provide. We’ve used this expertise and insight to create Ecoflex VIP Thermo, a pre-insulated pipe that combines the highest standards of energy efficiency with advanced installation benefits. The Ecoflex VIP Thermo represents the nex …

Who Invented District Heating?The earliest examples of district heating were Roman hypocausts, a type of hot-air furnace often adapted to warm several buildings in close proximity, such as the three temples at Carnutum (Vienna). In London, district heating was introduced in 1622 by Dutch polymath Cornelius Drebbil, whose aim was to use it only to distribute heat for cooking and heating, thus reducing air pollution caused by individual coal stoves.Is District Heating Renewable?District heating is …

Scottish plumbing supplier on track to hit £7m turnover2 NOV 2023 Founders of the business, Craig Campbell, commercial director and Alan McConville, operations director had accumulated a wealth of knowledge in the industry through their work for large manufacturing merchants in senior roles for over three decades. Together, they identified a gap in the market to strengthen the relationship between merchant suppliers and the everyday tradesman, who they believed to be neglected in the industry …

A survey by Water Regs UK has found that more than half of plumbers say they are spending each working day fixing botched DIY jobs or other installers’ poor work.A survey of 200 British plumbers, conducted online in April by Water Regs UK, has found that more than half (55.6%) spend every single working day fixing other plumbers’ poor work. While more than two thirds (68.8%) say they face the problem of competing with unqualified plumbers who can do the job cheaper. Half of those surveyed (52.2% …

If your looking for an alternative way to heat your home or business , you may well have come across Air Source Heat Pumps! They have increased in popularity hugely over the years , mainly due to a massive drive towards Net zero and the increase in wholesale prices of gas and electricity, although we are starting to see some redress in the market , especially in futures contracts , the price of energy is still at an all time high , and the pain is real for many. Whilst the government has st …

New York state has passed legislation that will scale up the state’s renewable energy production and signals a major step toward moving utilities out of private hands to become publicly owned.The bill, included in the state’s new budget, will require the state’s public power provider to generate all of its electricity from clean energy by 2030. It also allows the public utility to build and own renewables while phasing out fossil fuels.“It’s a historic win for the climate and for clean jobs,” sa …

The cost of energy on the market has been falling for months - but many customers are yet to benefitMany households will have received a letter informing them their gas and electric bills are going up in April. But why are energy bills still going up at a time when wholesale prices have gone down?In fact, both wholesale gas and electricity prices have fallen steadily since December 2022, but that drop has seemingly not been carried over into energy bills. The price cap set by regulator Ofgem, wh …

More than 1m small businesses may be paying energy bills significantly above market rates after becoming trapped in long-term contracts fixed when prices reached a historical peak last year.Trade groups representing businesses from metalworkers to convenience stores have joined forces to warn of a “perilous situation”.They are calling on ministers to force suppliers to renegotiate unaffordable energy deals struck last summer or risk thousands of insolvencies that would hit jobs and the UK econom …

KEY POINTS The U.K. has limits on how much suppliers are able to charge consumers for energy.Britain’s energy price caps are reviewed by the government’s regulator, Ofgem, every six months.Ofgem, the energy sector regulator, said on Thursday that its price cap would be raised by 54%, marking a record-breaking increase.LONDON — Energy bills are set to rise drastically in the U.K. after the country’s energy regulator announced its cap on prices would rise by over 50% in April.The U.K. has limits …

We examine how Europe could cope in the event Russia decided to leave some of its biggest customers out in the cold and finds post-Brexit Britain could provide the solution.There are many unknowns in the Russia-Ukraine situation.Will Russia invade? Will it stop short of invasion while taking other steps to destabilise Ukraine? Will it face European or American sanctions? What form would those sanctions take? And so on.But perhaps chief among the unknowns is what might happen to Europe's ene …