In this project, we partnered with the energy supplier Utilita to explore smart prepayment meter customers’ experience of participating in their version of the DFS called Power Payback. This will ...

Despite efforts by successive governments to reduce obesity rates, its prevalence has doubled since the 1990s 7, and three in five people in the UK are now overweight or obese 8. We need more ...

What do toilets have to do with climate change? Although the two may seem like they’re worlds apart, the rise of indoor plumbing in the UK can teach some important lessons for a green transition.

How lowering the cost ratio of electricity to gas permanently would help make heating greener The government's support for householders in the form of the Energy Price Guarantee not only kept energy ...

At this very early stage in the responses to the pandemic, four narratives are taking shape, pointing us to quite different futures. These scenarios combine elements of continuity and discontinuity, ...

The heat pump survey paints a positive picture for the future of heat pump adoption, showing that the majority of users are satisfied with their system. It also highlighted some improvements that ...

A new batch of Census 2021 data on housing has just been released, giving us a chance to see how homes across England and Wales are heated. Beyond being able to see whether homes have central heating ...

Richard is a fully qualified mechanical engineer and has a wealth of experience working with and testing innovative heating control technology and 21st-century boiler technology. This report ...

Patricia Lucas is a social researcher with a particular interest in child health inequalities and evidence for policy. She divides her time between independent work, leading rapid soci… COVID-19 ...

Disadvantaged children in England are absent from early-years education more often than their peers, according to new research from the innovation charity Nesta. In the first systematic effort to ...

This report outlines the potential of AI tools in schools and colleges, and charts a path for the future that maximises the benefits and minimises the risks.

Stacked column chart showing electricity and gas bills from April 2020 to October 2024 for a typical household. Bills are broken into components: wholesale fuel costs, network costs, policy costs, ...