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.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 167
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Can a Boat Race Champion Revolutionise Home Heating? Find Out!
Ever wondered what connects the discipline of a three-time Oxford-Cambridge boat race rower with the intricacies of sustainable architecture and the practicalities of installing heat pu…
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…
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 system…
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 Advice
- The CfD (Contracts for Difference) consultation
- the report from the N…
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 an…
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 to
Ian Rose arPassiv UK,
Casey Cole at Guru,
and Mark Lufkin at Wondrwall
Learn more about heat pump heating by follo…
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 hea…
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…
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 thos…
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
Lear…
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.
Training course are …
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.org
BetaTalk would also like to mention the legendary John Cantor, one of the UK's first ever…
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 Arlow Plumbing and Heating and has a team …
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 wh…
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 p…
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 bra…
Arguably, Heat Pump Training is Not Working.
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 Festiva…
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 th…
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 co…