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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 7h

Coherent longterm strategy: what the UK needs in so many areas of policy

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 9h

I know it is scandalous. I worked with Ben Webster on this a while back: www.opendemocracy.net/en/new-build...

New homes built with gas boilers after developers’ lobbying

Exclusive: Experts have accused developers of passing the buck, as households face huge bills to retrofit homes

www.opendemocracy.net

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

We could have started so much earlier!

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

I could not agree more

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

Because the conservative government scrapped the Zero Carbon Homes Standard in 2015 that would have avoided that. From 2027 the Future Homes Standard will finally prevent gas boilers installed in new homes. Lots of heavy lobbying: www.opendemocracy.net/en/new-build...

New homes built with gas boilers after developers’ lobbying

Exclusive: Experts have accused developers of passing the buck, as households face huge bills to retrofit homes

www.opendemocracy.net

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

Not that I’m aware off unless there are any voluntary carbon offset schemes but I doubt it. We have a carbon price on electricity but not on gas for heating.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

Solar is one thing the other is the heating system.

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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10h

Removing gas from domestic heating should be an important piece in climate based energy policy.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye @samcaseyr.bsky.social · 10h

Policy makers should be reading this and how it ‘… is in sharp contrast with the UK's stop-start funding programmes, which can't grow a market, where supply chains can't expand, and housing associations can't plan more than 12 or 24 months’

Been pushing on this for >6 years!

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10h

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh is it a FT conspiracy going on here?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Why? Their energy reporting is excellent.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. You can fidn out more here www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Thermal Energy Day

YouTube video by The Live Streaming Platform

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Is it?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Electro-thermal storage systems (ETES) are one of many technologies to electrify industrial heat.

This week I moderated Thermal Energy Day in Budapest. The event brought together leading voices to discuss infrastructure, markets & thermal storage.

Full recording: m.youtube.com/watch?v=b8xs...

Thermal Energy Day

YouTube video by The Live Streaming Platform

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

And the heat output?

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Also a terrible idea.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

I clearly stated it in the paper: public research grants for the vast majority of them and foundation grants.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

This bsky.app/profile/janr...

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

In Hungary today: Kyoto Group inaugurated one of world’s largest thermal energy storage units at KALL Ingredients. 56 MWh Heatcube → >30 GWh clean heat/yr, up to 8,000 tCO₂ cut/yr. Flexible, renewables-powered, 14 MW steam. Heat-as-a-Service model makes it scale.

www.kyotogroup.no/news/worlds-...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

What temperature range?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

This is a project that will reduce gas consumption.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

The University of Oxford continues to retain a strong position in global university rankings despite the turmoil the British higher education sector has been subjected to. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-10...

Oxford named best university in the world for a record tenth

Oxford University has been world number one in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings since 2017 - the longest time any university has held the position in the 21 annual editions of the

www.ox.ac.uk

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

In Hungary today: Kyoto Group inaugurated one of world’s largest thermal energy storage units at KALL Ingredients. 56 MWh Heatcube → >30 GWh clean heat/yr, up to 8,000 tCO₂ cut/yr. Flexible, renewables-powered, 14 MW steam. Heat-as-a-Service model makes it scale.

www.kyotogroup.no/news/worlds-...

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