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"New UK planning rules for heat pumps come into effect, one meter rule scrapped"
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New UK planning rules for heat pumps come into effect, one meter rule scrapped
Change to planning law could simplify heat pump installation process for thousands of households in England. Limits on the size and number of heat pumps that can be installed have also been raised. The changes have been introduced as the UK government pursues 600,000 installations per year by 2028 target.

ASHP: Domestic Air-Source Heat Pumps - Ensure that your ASHP installation is greener than mains natural gas for central heating and hot water (CH/DHW) in the UK. #ASHP #heatpump -

ASHP: Domestic Air-Source Heat Pumps
Ensure that your ASHP installation is greener than mains natural gas for central heating and hot water (CH/DHW) in the UK. #ASHP #heatpump

Good article on some of the UK developments enabling aggregators (virtual lead parties) to unlock more demand side flexibility, including residential (heat pumps, batteries, EVs).
https://www.greenexecutives.com/post/unlocking-th…

Unlocking the Future of Energy: How UK Flex Markets Are Reshaping the Grid
With more renewable energy—especially wind and solar—being integrated than ever before, maintaining balance between supply and demand in real time is a growing challenge. That’s where flex markets come in - and everyone from business to consumers is invited to have a seat at the table.

A mix of long-duration hydrogen and thermal storage enables large-scale electrified heating in a renewable European energy system
Felix Schmidt, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21516

A mix of long-duration hydrogen and thermal storage enables large-scale electrified heating in a renewable European energy system
Hydrogen-based long-duration electricity storage (LDES) is a key component of renewable energy systems to deal with seasonality and prolonged periods of low wind and solar energy availability. In this paper, we investigate how electrified heating with heat pumps impacts LDES requirements in a fully renewable European energy system, and which role thermal storage can play. Using a large weather dataset of 78 weather years, we find that electrified heating significantly increases LDES needs, as o…