This session will focus on short/medium term policy development related to low carbon heat. It will consider the most pressing and immediate areas for policy development in heat during the period up to 2025.

Chair: 

Keitch MacLean, Providence Policy (Chair)

Speakers:

Ian McCluskey, IGEM
Arianna Griffa, Energy Systems Catapult
Richard Lowes, University of Exeter

The session will seek to address the following:

• What are the key lessons which have been learnt from past experience of policies designed to deploy low carbon heating?
• What schemes (if any) should replace the Renewable Heat Incentive?
• How should heat networks be supported through policy during the 2020s?
• What policy development is required to support the transition to low carbon heat for off-gas grid properties?
• What further policy development is required to ensure new build properties do not add to the low carbon heat challenge?
• What are the immediate priorities for low carbon heating policy between 2020-25?