Kat Young
@youngkat.bsky.social
Heat & local energy policy at Energy Systems Catapult. Views my own.
More on https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-young/
Bike mechanic at Broken Spoke, Oxford.
More on https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-young/
Bike mechanic at Broken Spoke, Oxford.
ECO is dead. It's easier to try to rebuild public trust in fuel poverty and energy efficiency schemes when you burn the previous government's policy down rather than tinker with it. It is, however, harder to keep supply chains going and the industry's capacity to be there and rebuild it with you.
Today’s Budget is sending mixed signals on electrification. More should be done to help low-carbon innovators compete and this means doing more to address the excessive ‘spark gap.’
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
ECO is dead. It's easier to try to rebuild public trust in fuel poverty and energy efficiency schemes when you burn the previous government's policy down rather than tinker with it. It is, however, harder to keep supply chains going and the industry's capacity to be there and rebuild it with you.
🔥New report "Heating up: Towards a new generation of warm home schemes" looks at opportunities beyond ECO4 to transform warm home schemes by centring around the consumer, delivering through area-based partnerships, focusing on health & social outcomes with affordable clean heat. tinyurl.com/yuhcm566
Heating up: Towards a new generation of warm home schemes
The next ECO scheme should focus on consumers’ needs, be delivered through area-based partnerships, and have a specific focus on health and social outcomes.
es.catapult.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🔥New report "Heating up: Towards a new generation of warm home schemes" looks at opportunities beyond ECO4 to transform warm home schemes by centring around the consumer, delivering through area-based partnerships, focusing on health & social outcomes with affordable clean heat. tinyurl.com/yuhcm566
Reposted by Kat Young
Fancy getting a new efficient, heating system for free?
We're looking for homeowners with electric heating and smart meters to join our research project (note we are looking for quite a select target group - so please pass on to anyone you think might fit the bill/benefit).
We're looking for homeowners with electric heating and smart meters to join our research project (note we are looking for quite a select target group - so please pass on to anyone you think might fit the bill/benefit).
The Living Lab
The Living Lab is a network of volunteers from all around the UK, who help researchers understand how real people use energy in real-life settings.
www.livinglab.energy
April 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Fancy getting a new efficient, heating system for free?
We're looking for homeowners with electric heating and smart meters to join our research project (note we are looking for quite a select target group - so please pass on to anyone you think might fit the bill/benefit).
We're looking for homeowners with electric heating and smart meters to join our research project (note we are looking for quite a select target group - so please pass on to anyone you think might fit the bill/benefit).
Reposted by Kat Young
📣 Net Zero Klaxon! 📣
Really interesting DESNZ funded trial for people with electrically heated homes (& smart meters) to have a range of measures - including some Air to Air heat pumps - installed for free!
Sign up to the Homes for Net Zero trial:
paidresearch.further-afield.com/p/147/4281ca...
Really interesting DESNZ funded trial for people with electrically heated homes (& smart meters) to have a range of measures - including some Air to Air heat pumps - installed for free!
Sign up to the Homes for Net Zero trial:
paidresearch.further-afield.com/p/147/4281ca...
February 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📣 Net Zero Klaxon! 📣
Really interesting DESNZ funded trial for people with electrically heated homes (& smart meters) to have a range of measures - including some Air to Air heat pumps - installed for free!
Sign up to the Homes for Net Zero trial:
paidresearch.further-afield.com/p/147/4281ca...
Really interesting DESNZ funded trial for people with electrically heated homes (& smart meters) to have a range of measures - including some Air to Air heat pumps - installed for free!
Sign up to the Homes for Net Zero trial:
paidresearch.further-afield.com/p/147/4281ca...
Fancy a podcast episode with @betatalk.bsky.social where we talk about the Electrification of Heat project and why government needs these sort of projects for evidence based policy? You're in luck!
open.spotify.com/episode/6NRD...
open.spotify.com/episode/6NRD...
Did the Government funded Heat Pump Trial Fail?
BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Fancy a podcast episode with @betatalk.bsky.social where we talk about the Electrification of Heat project and why government needs these sort of projects for evidence based policy? You're in luck!
open.spotify.com/episode/6NRD...
open.spotify.com/episode/6NRD...
More articles about England devolution should feature xkcd and cheese.
Will Oxfordshire get an elected Mayor? Is the City Council for the chop? We explain the latest plans for reorganising councils. Featuring Charles de Gaulle, Malcolm Tucker and Stilton cheese. oxfordclarion.uk/rearranging-...
(Two long reads in one morning. We’re piling up your Christmas reading!)
(Two long reads in one morning. We’re piling up your Christmas reading!)
Rearranging the pieces on the Oxfordshire cheeseboard
Charles de Gaulle famously asked “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” Keir Starmer is asking how you can govern a country with 246 varieties of local council.
France has ...
oxfordclarion.uk
December 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
More articles about England devolution should feature xkcd and cheese.