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 I Have a Heat Pump
In the first episode after betatalk won the British Renewable Energy Awards communication category Nathan is joined by two of his favourite engineers Steve and Steve. Along for the ride…
What is Heat As A Service
This episode was recorded mid 2020
Nathan discusses heat as a service with Matthew Lipson, Dave Smith and Jayesh Kanbi.
Matthew works at https://es.catapult.org.uk/ (energy systems catap…
How To Get MCS Accredited & the Green Homes Grant Bottleneck
In this episode Nathan speaks with Adam Chapman from https://heatgeek.com/ about his experience with becoming MCS accredited. It's often heard how MCS is very complex for a heating engi…
Fabric First? Not always
In this episode Nathan speaks with Adam Chapman from Vito Energy and heat geek which is an excellent resource for consumers and engineers. This episode centres around what we can do rig…
Ten Heat Pump Myths
In this episode Nathan's guests myth bust heat pumps. He is joined by Bean from the Ground Source Heat Pump Association and Heat Pump Federation; Robin who is also from the GSHPA and Bi…
Are Heat Pumps Expensive? A discussion with Evergreen Energy about Assignment of Rights
In this episode Nathan discusses with Evergreen Energy how consumers are able to get help with the upfront cost of renewable heating technology.
Evergreen Energy are an OFGEM approved in…
What is The Green Homes Grant ?
The first episode of season 3 discusses the green home energy grant with renewable heating engineers Leah and Steve and also Kathryn from the University of Lancaster
For more informatio…
Split Systems, Heat Pumps with Propane and Other Types of Refrigerant
Graeme Fox
Head of REFCOM - provider of F-Gas Schemes, James Baker, Renewable Heat Engineer (both land and sea) and Lisa-Jayne Cook
a refrigeration engineer and along with Graham a board…
District Heating, Heat Networks, Solar Heat Networks part 2
00.40 Paul Hull's experience in Denmark where there are lots of heat networks. He was out there. to look at heat recovery systems. He talks about how heat is captured from FaceBook's se…
District Heating, Heat Networks, Solar Heat Networks part 1
Guests: Ingo Leusbrock Head of department "Cities and Networks" at AEE Institute For Sustainable Technologie a Non-profit research institute in Gleisdorf, Austria https://www.aee-intec.…
Heat Pumps and Solar Heat - The Challenges and Complexities of Installing Low Carbon Technologies Part 2
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00:30 Heat Pump manufacturer training
01:58 Heat Pump supply chain issues.…
Heat Pumps and Solar Heat - The Challenges and Complexities of Installing Low Carbon Technologies
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How to be a Renewable Heating Engineer
Phil Hurley MD of NIBE and the vice chairperson of the Heat Pump Association, Paul Hull the campaign director of Gas Safe Super Hero's and Keith Harrison discuss with Nathan on the Beta…
Renewable Heating with Dan Cæsar from the Fully Charged Show
Dan and Robert Llewellyn (from Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge fame) are extremely well known for their love of electric vehicles which they discuss on the hugely popular Fully Charge…
Battery Storage - Lithium and Sodium
Active buildings, energy storage, lithium ion batteries and strategic materials, it's all here. Listen to podcast friend Dr Gavin Harper a Faraday Institution Research Fellow School of …
Heat Pump and Policy Chat with Jan Rosenow Richard Lowes and Lee Fischer
Heat Pumps are the topic on the second podcast recorded via Zoom on lockdown. However, this is the first episode to ever be uploaded to youtube which you can fine here https://youtu.be/…
Low Carbon Heating and Soil Regeneration
Can Low Loss Headers and Buffer tanks be installed onto heat pump systems and other renewable heating topics are discussed in this episode but also land regeneration and how soil locks …
Renewable Heating - Heat Pumps & Solar Heat with Grant
Low temp heating design along with heat pumps is todays discussion at the HQ of Grant who are well known in the industry.
Grant is essentially an off-grid company known in the heating s…
Renewable Heating - Kensa Part 2
Ground source heat pumps is still the topic at Kensa. Lots of topics to listen to including:
- Kensa explain how they are part of the commissioning process
- Bill explains the importance of …
Renewable Energy - Kensa Ground Source Heat Pumps Part 1
Kensa Ground Source Heat Pumps are the topic of this weeks betatalk podcast.
Nathan took along some of his usual guest engineers to Kensa's HQ to have a chat about heat pumps, training …