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“Electrifying heating: why your next boiler will be a heat pump. (Maybe.) The UK’s heating transition & the role for smart, flexible appliances”
with Cate Lyon (Electrification of Heat Service Manager) at Delta-EE

Most of us take for granted that we can have warm homes and hot water when we want them. Today around 90% of the UK’s 29 million homes rely directly on unabated fossil fuels to provide this, making a significant contribution to the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. Meeting our net zero target will require radical change from the status quo on home comfort – both at the individual building level, and the energy system level. But how “best” to decarbonise heat is a complex area, with no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution. Electric heating technologies – including heat pumps – are one potential solution, but the UK lags behind many other countries in making the move to high-efficiency electric heating.

At the same time, the retail energy market in the UK – as elsewhere – is being transformed by three mega trends:

  • The move from product & commodity sales, to selling services
  • The opportunities being unlocked by data & digitalisation
  • The growing need for flexibility, across the energy system.

In this talk, Cate will present Delta-EE’s views on the current UK heating market, what developments we can expect to see next in how we heat and cool our homes, and how the wider changes happening in the energy system are increasingly influencing what will happen with heat.

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Our Speaker - Cate Lyon

Cate joined the Delta-EE team in 2014. Her main research & consultancy focus area is market analysis on the evolving outlook for residential heating, including gas-based heating, electrically-driven heating and microgeneration.

Cate currently manages the Delta-EE “Electrification of Heat Service”, which provides insight and opinion on the outlook for electrically-driven heating in Europe – both the technologies and associated business models – and the opportunities emerging from the increasing convergence between the heating and electricity sectors.  Her clients include major global and European heating equipment manufacturers, energy utilities, and government departments.

Before joining Delta-EE, Cate worked at the Energy Saving Trust, first in London and then in Edinburgh, where she spent 6 years working in domestic energy efficiency and microgeneration, and renewable energy more widely, across the UK.

Arrangements

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak this event will now be delivered by webinar using the ‘Zoom’ Video Conferencing facility.

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Delegates should register for the event using this page. Once your application is approved you will receive log-in details to join the webinar. We send these some 24hours beforehand to enable you to check the functionality. We strongly recommend you check the ‘Zoom’ connection before the broadcast.

Questions of our speaker will be handled by our Chair Nicola Gordon through the ‘Q&A’ facility on ‘Zoom’.

We ask all delegates to ‘mute’ their microphones to avoid background noise and disruptions to our speaker.

Timings

4.50PM – Delegates join the webinar and wait for the host to activate the session.

5PM – Update from SEF Exec Sec.

5.05PM – Introduction of our speaker by Chair Nicola Gordon.

5.10PM – Cate Lyon presentation.

5.45PM – Q&A through Zoom ‘Group Chat’ functionality. Managed by SEF Chair Nicola Gordon.

6.25PM – Vote of Thanks.

6.30PM – Webinar finishes

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