Tom Leach

What could £13.2 billion do to improve British homes? As the Spending Review approaches, we analyse Labour's £13.2 billion Warm Homes Plan. While the pledge may survive, what will it take to make it a success?

There's been a lot of talk about Labour's £13.2bn Warm Homes Plan, which may or may not be confirmed in the spending review tomorrow.

But what is the £13.2bn for? My colleagues @tomleach.bsky.social and @martinakavan.bsky.social have written a nice explainer...

www.nesta.org.uk/blog/what-co...

10.06.2025 11:13 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Investigating and addressing policy barriers in home decarbonisation By addressing regulatory roadblocks, we aim to help innovators bring new technologies to market and accelerate home decarbonisation

I'm looking to speak to innovators who have thoughts on how regulatory barriers are affecting their business. We're investigating these as part of a new project in Nesta, aiming to get under the skin of the issues and work towards solutions. www.nesta.org.uk/project/inve...

26.03.2025 14:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People living near new pylons in Great Britain could get £250 a year off energy bills Government hopes to avoid backlash against upgrade of infrastructure as it tries to grow UK economy

Pylons are in the news again! Here are some thoughts in this blog on when and why incentives like this backfire:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.bi.team/blogs/pounds...

10.03.2025 12:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Nesta’s response to government consultation on EPC reform The UK is reforming EPCs, and Nesta urges better metrics and user testing to support home decarbonisation

EPC reform - Nesta’s take on metrics (we think it should be cost + carbon), and how we’d approach a more user centred design www.nesta.org.uk/blog/nestas-...

07.03.2025 09:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What can we learn about governance and public service leadership from Singapore? As the new government gets to work, Nesta is looking at successful past policies from across the globe and what UK policymakers can learn from them

We always reach for Singapore for international examples - but what lessons can we actually learn from the city state? www.nesta.org.uk/event/what-c...

19.12.2024 16:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

EPCs need radical reform - here’s four ways how The system has become too complicated. It's time to make EPCs useful.

The Government just launched a consultation on EPC reform. Here are some of Nesta's recent thoughts on reform:
www.nesta.org.uk/blog/epcs-ne...
Gov consultation: www.gov.uk/government/c...

04.12.2024 11:59 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Column chart showing annual gas and electricity levies as a share of net income for Ofgem consumer archetypes. Shares vary by main fuel type: gas, electricity, electricity/other, and other. Levies are highest as a share of income for lower-income archetypes. Overall they range between 0.5 and 1.5%.

OK, time for a proper thread on levies on energy bills, based on our report out today.

Topline: the levies are unfair, and a huge barrier to reaching net zero. To reform them, we should rebalance levies on to gas while targeting support to low income households.

www.nesta.org.uk/report/cheap...

04.12.2024 11:01 — 👍 52    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 2

Ideas to propel us to a better 2040 Our analysis on the challenges and bold solutions required to tackle economic growth, health, education and net zero

What would it take to improve the UK's trajectory to 2040?

A new report series from UK 2040 Options brings together innovative policy ideas in areas critical to the country’s future – economic growth, health, education and net zero.

Read the ideas: options2040.co.uk/ideas-to-pro...

04.09.2024 08:47 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0