We are delighted to be supporting 2020 Future of Heat Conference, as facilitation partner for major event taking place on 26 February 2020 in Birmingham.

We will be asking the question - how can we engage consumers in the need to change domestic heating arrangements and adopt alternatives to gas powered and non fossil fuel heating?

In March, the former Chancellor Philip Hammond announced a drive to decarbonise future homes built in the UK. The plan focused on banning fossil fuel heating systems in new homes by 2025 as part of an envisioned target to reduce the carbon intensity of new builds by 80%.

This week, the Government has launched a consultation on a new Future Homes Standard (FHS) that will be introduced in 2025 to create “world-leading energy efficiency standards”. Interim regulations for the Future Homes Standard will be introduced from 2020. The consultation will shape building regulations that will come into by the end of 2020.

The Government has proposed that every new home should “typically have triple glazing and standards for walls, floors and roofs that significantly limit any heat loss”. Additional carbon-saving methods could also be delivered through heat pumps, heat networks and direct electric heating.

The FHS form the policy proposals for Part L and Part F of Building Regulations and include measures that would result in emissions reductions of between 20 and 31% for new build homes, but the Government prefers the more ambitious of the two targets.

The current consultation is open until 10 January 2020.