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.
Episodes
146 episodes
Heat Pump Strategies: Insights from the UK for US Homeowners
Ever wondered how heat pump systems differ between the UK and the US? In this episode, Nathan chats with Shreyas Sudhakar, a leading heat pump installer and educator from California, to explore the contrasting approaches. Nathan, who has fond m...
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Season 11
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Episode 7
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1:02:07
THE UK's LEGENDARY HEAT PUMP INSTALLER
Damon Blackmore is a massive favourite among other competent heat pump installation engineers. He uses social media to help other heating engineers become interested in heat pump systems and has some of the highest performing heat p...
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Season 11
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Episode 6
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1:00:45
Problems with OFGEM - A conversation with Adam Bell
Nathan chats to Adam Bell, Director of Policy at Stonehaven about:Ofgem and the recent findings from Citizens AdviceThe CfD (Contracts for Difference) consultation the report from the National Infrastructure C...
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Season 11
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Episode 5
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22:52
Visit A Heat Pump - The Successful Nesta project
Heat pump owners around the UK have joined the Nesta scheme whereby they allow visitors to come visit them and ask questions about their heating system. Nathan chats to Codrina Cretu and Andy Marsden about the benefits of this free ...
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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41:19
How smart, connected and flexible heat pumps can deliver lower fuel bills and higher customer satisfaction
Episode 3 of the Heat Pump Ready programme.Nathan chats toIan Rose arPassiv UK,Casey Cole at Guru,and Mark Lufkin at Wondrwall
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56:14
Did the Government funded Heat Pump Trial Fail?
Nathan talks with Katrina from Energy Systems Catapult and Trysten Lee from Open Energy Monitor about a key question surrounding the Electrification of Heat (EoH) trial: why did the heat pumps perform so poorly? The trial, involving aprox. 740 ...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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59:46
Is MVHR any good?
Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery systems are discussed with Nathan's guests Duncan and Barry Sharp.Regular listeners will know Barry from previous episodes of BetaTalk and is one of Nathan's favourite heat pump engineers based in Sc...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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58:23
Expert Heat Pump Customers - Mick Wall Interview
Nathan interviews Mick Wall, a self-proclaimed 'heating nerd,' about his experiences with a heat pump expertly installed by Damon Blackmore, a renowned engineer. Mick's story, like those of Trystan and Glyn featured on episode 10 of BetaTalk's ...
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Season 11
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Episode 1
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1:21:22
Spruce up Your Home with a Heat Pump
Nathan talks to Steph Willis and Joseph Saxby, founders of Spruce.Lot's of topics covered in this exciting conversation such as heat loss, heat pump sizing and EPCs
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Season 10
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Episode 12
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1:08:07
How Boiler Engineers Transition to Heat Pumps
Nathan chats to Iain from Edinburg Heating about his journey into heat pumps. Iain has been using Barry at Renewable Heat (and a BetaTalk regular guest) as a mentor.Train...
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Season 10
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Episode 11
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51:39
UK's Top Performing Heat Pump Systems on Heat Pump Monitor
Nathan welcomes back to the show Trystan and Glyn, the brilliant team behind heatpumpmonitor.orgBetaTalk would also like to mention the legendary John Cantor, one of the UK's first ever heat pump g...
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Season 10
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Episode 10
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1:43:57
Top Heat Pump Installers in Somerset & Sussex
Notorious heat pump design expert Michael, from Option Energy Solutions in Brighton Sussex, comes on the show with Tom from Somerset. Tom runs
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Season 10
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Episode 9
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47:25
MCS ISSUE A CEASE and DESIST
The microgeneration certification scheme (MCS) recently became aware of a non-certified business targeting and encouraging MCS installers to break scheme requirements. We chat to Ben who has recently become MCS registered to discus...
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Season 10
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Episode 8
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44:19
Mentorship or Send Gas Engineers on Heat Pump PowerPoint Courses?
In this podcast Nathan chats with his friends Barry from Renewable Heat and Matt from Matt Rigby Heating Ltd. The guests and Nathan discuss Matts journey from a gas engineer to a heat pump engineer. It mentions how Barry has provided me...
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Season 10
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Episode 7
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54:30
Heat Geek and Homely at the Installer Show 2024
Nathan was kindly invited by the Heat Geek team to host a podcast at their Installer Show stand where he chatted to Adam Chapman, founder of Heat Geek and Karolis Petruskevicius the brains behind HomelyThe discussion involves what is cu...
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Season 10
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Episode 6
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30:59
Heat Pumps in Edinburgh - a discussion with SNIPEF
In this episode Nathan chats with Fiona, CEO of SNIPEF and Barry, a regular podcast guest and a Snipef member. Snipef presented talks at the Green Homes Festival during Edinburg Festival month and Nathan discusses the talks with hi...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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52:26
Heat Loss Tools - Heat Pump Ready Projects
This is the second episode of the special Heat Pump Ready podcast series, in collaboration with the Carbon Trust with funding from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. In t...
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Season 10
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Episode 3
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1:10:56
What do Heat Pump Installers Want? - Live Broadcast at the Installer Show
Emma Bohan from IMS Heating came up with the idea for surveying heat pump installation companies big and small. She brought me on board with the project and I had Nesta help with the construction of the survey and its analysis. The podc...
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Season 10
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Episode 2
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50:17
What Does a New Government Mean for Energy and Heat Decarbonisation
In the first episode of season 10 which is being sponsored by Ultimate Renewables Supplies Nathan speaks with Madeleine Gabriel the Mission Director for Sustainable Future mission at NESTA and...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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58:02
Fabric Fifth - has SHDF Mismanagement Wasted Tax Payers Money?
In this episode I spoke to Nigel Banks, Technical Director at Octopus Energy. Nigel is author of Fabric Fifth which many now see as the common sense approach to retrofitting and decarbonising homes. Nigel spoke in a personal ...
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Season 9
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Episode 14
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1:08:46
A conversation with Champion Heat Pump Installers
Nathan sat down with three regional winners for the 2024 Heating Installer Awards.They explain their winning installs as well as well as discussing the current trends happening in the industry
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Season 9
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Episode 13
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56:40
Heat Pump & Fabric First Debate Featuring the Insulation Manufacturers Association
Nathan was grateful the IMA reached out to ask if their CEO, Simon Storer, could come on the podcast to contribute to a very interesting debate.Nigel Banks from Octopus (who wrote
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Season 9
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Episode 12
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58:37
The Heat Pump Installer Network
Nathan sat down to chat all things heat pumps and training with Clayton Brown from CB Heating.EDF acquired CB Heating back in 2022 which is one of the largest heat pump installation entities in the UK. EDF’s strategic inves...
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Season 9
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Episode 11
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1:06:44
Radiator Outputs Could Cause Heat Pump Problems
Heat pumps move energy from and energy source e.g. air, ground water (hence they are called :air source, ground source) to a sink.The sink is the emitter system within a home e.g. radiators, underfloor heating (UFH) and fan coils. <...
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Season 9
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Episode 10
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51:04