Category: Parity Thoughts

Our Managing Director, Russell Smith, recently appeared as a guest speaker on the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator (SHRA) podcast.  He joins Fallon Warren from Orbit Group and Turner & Townsend’s Associate Director of  Sustainability, Sarah Daly. Together, they demystify the...
The Construction Leadership Council is currently consulting on the need for a National Retrofit Strategy. Homes use 35% of all energy in the UK and emit 20% of the carbon dioxide emissions. The decarbonisation of heat will undoubtedly help, but retrofit remains...
Parity Projects is one of the delivery partners in BEIS’ £16.5 million Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project.  Working with Ovo, our Programme Builder identifies those homes most suited to heat pumps, based on their existing energy efficiency and, for others, identifies...
National Grid has published a report on the Net Zero Energy workforce, and very welcome it is. Particularly the figure below showing that decarbonisation not only delivers 400,000 jobs, but does so across every region and nation. We’ve been doing...
There are around 4 million UK households in fuel poverty, who find it hard to heat their homes due to low incomes, high fuel bills and hard-to-heat homes. This has consequences for the health of the residents and society. Yet...
Today’s report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) finds that today’s homes are unfit for the challenges of the 21st century. It could not be clearer: We cannot meet our climate objectives without a major improvement in UK housing. We will...
BEIS aims to consult on a market framework for heat networks this summer, following its response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s Market Study and the Industry Heat Network Task Force report Shared Warmth. This week the Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) has opened...