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
- 168
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Heat Pump Policy in Practice
Nathan has a great chat with Daniel Newport from the Tony Blair Institute for Climate and one of his regular renewable heating engineers James from Elite Services Group based in Hull.
Da…
A Live Podcast at the Installer & Elemental Show at the NEC
Nathan hosted a live podcast to discuss heat pumps at the industry's favourite show.
On the guest panel were Heat Architects Steve Webster and Si Posket along with the podcasts expert g…
How Well do Heat Pumps Perform - looking at the OFGEM data
Ofgem have been collecting performance data on heat pump installs and Nathan chats to Collin Meek from RB&M who has analysed the data.
The report summary can be found here
Learn what COP…
Homes with NO Energy Bills - The Octopus Ilke Homes
Can a home have no energy bills? Yes. We chat to Nigel from Ilke Homes who have just partnered with Octopus Energy for an exciting project where the occupant is expected to pay no energ…
Energy Storage & Heat Batteries using WarmStone and Phase Change Materials
Meet Nathan's guest Tom Lowe who heads up the Thermal Storage Association with founding members SunAmp, Caldera and Tepeo.
Tom has had previous roles in OFGEM, British Gas and Buld Energ…
Carbon Coop Retrofit - a Conversation with Marianne, Matt & Johnathan
In this first episode of season 6 I chat with some of the people in the Carbon CoOp team
You can hear what they are all about and how they have been helping people navigate through the c…
The Heating Controls Industry - A Chat with David Newton
Nathan speaks to his good friend and his control expert David Newton. David started his career in controls back in the 70s and has interesting stories.
The conversation centres around th…
A Conversation with The European Heat Pump Association
In this episode Nathan talks to Thomas Nowak the Secretary General of the EHPA.
Thomas has a wealth of knowledge in the European Heat Pump space and has been disseminating good advice f…
Protons for Breakfast - Flow Temp and HTC Measurements
In this episode Nathan chats to retired physicists Michael de Podesta about his video on how to quickly get an idea of the heat loss of your home.
You can follow him on Twitter at @Pr…
Helping You Understand the Heating Industry - a Conversation with Adam Gilhespy from Heat Futures
One of my favourite conversations:
Adam is a rare entity. He is a heating engineer but understands extremely well the tech world now entering the heating industry and will play an import…
Boiler Upgrade Scheme - Emergency Episode
The Renewable Heat Incentive is about to finish and the Boiler Upgrade Scheme is about to start.
Heat pump installation companies have found themselves in a state of limbo and an open l…
Talking Heat Pumps with NESTA
Nathan knows the good people at NESTA quite well and likes their pragmatism. In this episode Nathan has a chat with Madeleine Gabriel the sustainable mission director and Andrew Sissons…
Battery Storage for the Home
In this episode Nathan chats with regular guest host Ken Bone and Rachael Peterson an electronics and software engineer. Both guests are early adopters of battery technology for use wit…
Monitoring Heating Systems
Nathan chats to Stephanie who was monitoring heat pump systems out in Canada.
One of the things Nathan is passionate about is using monitoring and Smart HTC to measure real heat loss.
Mo…
Fuel Poverty and Modulation
Gas prices have risen. This is having a dramatic effect on the poor. Nathan discusses the sorry state of ECO, the Energy Companies Obligation and how boilers have been installed in such…
Cleaning Up Energy with Michael Liebreich
In an experimental podcast episode Nathan chats to his friend and world renowned Michael Liebreich who hosts the Cleaning Up podcast. It is a dual podcast and will go out on BetaTalk an…
Why Don't New Build Homes Have Heat Pumps?
Planning permission and planning allocation are complex topics and Nathan invited along his friend Rico Wojtulewicz, the head of housing and policy at the National Federation of Builder…
The Training Fiasco in Plumbing & Heating
Nathan was joined by a very special guest on the first episode of a new season sponsored by the Heat Geek Team.
Nathan has been trying to help the heating industry realise there needs t…
The Most Important Component in a Heating System
Corrosion is a big problem in wet central heating systems. The water within the heating system is the cheapest yet regarded as the most important component. Unfortunately, it's perhaps …
Decarbonising Homes- A chat with policy expert Guy Newey
Nathan chats to a good friend of the podcast, Guy Newey, about decarbonising our homes and heating
Guy is Director of Strategy and Performance at the Energy Systems Catapult - (sponsor o…