British homeowners are being put off installing environmentally-friendly heat pumps by the high cost which has not reduced over the past decade, a study found today. Researchers said the systems only ...

A planning restriction that prevented heat pumps being installed within a metre of a neighbour's property has been removed. The government hopes the move will encourage more people to install the ...

Ed Miliband has announced an increase in the “boiler tax,” which will add an estimated £100 to the cost of replacing the appliances.

You turn the new keys, flick on the hallway light, and feel that soft thrum of possibility. Then the first cold snap arrives, ...

Researchers led by the Imperial College London have analyzed the effects different kinds of air-to-water heat pumps will have on the UK energy system, based on their coefficient of performance and ...

The high cost of installing heat pumps for home heating could slow down people widely adopting the technology and leave government targets missed, research suggests. There has been a little to no ...

Fresh polling by YouGov, carried out exclusively for Sky News, finds that belief in and concern about man-made global warming ...

Police constable Craig Williams, 30, has been living with a ground source heat pump since buying his home at Parc Eirin three ...

UK researchers suggested utilizing heat pumps to preheat hydrogen to very high temperatures, which they said could reduce the need for hydrogen by more than 20%. The process is also claimed to have ...

On the day I visit Octopus Energy's heat pump factory in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, temperatures in London reached 29C. Some of the staff meeting me, who are usually based in the south of England, ...

Octopus makes heat pumps at its factory in Northern Ireland [Chris Baraniuk] On the day I visit Octopus Energy's heat pump factory in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, temperatures in London reached 29C.