BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast
"Nathan is brilliant at making the complicated simple..." Amber Rudd (Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 2015-16)
BetaTalk is an award winning podcast for Local Authorities, Social Housing Groups, Think Tanks, Government, Journalists, Consultants, Developers, Gas, Oil and Heat Pump engineers and the general public.
It is hosted by Nathan Gambling who's family have been involved with heat pump technologies for nearly half a century.
"Nathan is one of the UK's clean heat leaders, so I always watch him closely..." Chris Stark (former CEO of the Climate Change Committee and Head of UK Gov. Mission Control)
The podcast features guests from the policy world as well as some of the UK's remarkable heating engineers. It discusses challenges and opportunities with decarbonised heating.
BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast
What Are the Most Efficient Boilers - modulation & PDHW
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We are joined by Richard Burrows from Mid Wales Plumbing and Heating Supplies who is an expert on heating control strategy.
Richard talks about the types of modulation - load compensation and weather compensation and how all boilers should be controlled this way.
To understand modulation I have written an article with a funny analogy here
With advice about turning boiler temperatures down for combination boilers 'combis' Richard chats about heating systems using cylinders and how the outdated practice of piping up S and Y plans is scuppering efficiency.
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