The Energy Secretary seems out-of-step with Downing Street and has been tipped for the chop, but remains highly popular among Labour members ...

This represents an efficiency of 300% – much higher than a new condensing gas boiler which may achieve an efficiency of 90%. In other words, heat pumps are over three times more efficient than gas ...

This is due to strongly embedded existing technologies (e.g., gas boilers in homes and internal combustion engine cars), the need to develop new infrastructures to provide alternative fuels, that ...

Government intervention in British Steel is a good start, says readerI hope the government doesn't stop at nationalising British Steel at Scunthorpe, and continues to underwrite our strategic raw ...

Britons have long questioned if heat pumps can provide steaming hot water in our coldest winters but now a university study has finally provided the answer.

A new study by the University of York has revealed a significant shift away from road vehicles and what they found is that gas boilers used for heating are now the primary contributor of nitrogen ...

A new study has revealed a significant shift in the sources of nitrogen oxides (NO x) pollution in central London, with gas boilers used for heating now identified as the primary contributor.

Gas boiler installations in the UK outpaced heat pump fittings by more than 15 to one last year, highlighting how far the country still has to go in meeting its clean energy targets. According to new ...

Last week, SNP ministers confirmed that plans to legally require Scots to replace polluting heating systems such as gas boilers were being scrapped, with Scottish Government targets being drawn up ...

In fact, Ed Miliband has already said he is not now proposing a future ban on gas boilers, or at least not unless and until the replacement technology – heat pumps run on electricity – is not ...

Euractiv reports that the “IEA calls on Germany to clarify the role of gas in its future energy strategy”. Meanwhile, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports that Austria has issued a two-year ...

By the end of this decade, gas boilers will be banned in new homes with almost all having a heat pump installed instead, usually at the expense of developers before the property is sold.