BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast

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"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.  


Episode Date
A Historical Moment: John Ewbank & the New Frontier of Air-to-Air Heat Pumps
Nov 26, 2025
Disrupting Zero Disrupt: Inside EDF's 'Express Heat Pump Initiative'
Nov 05, 2025
Government Regulators Crack Down on False Radiator Claims: Why MARC’s Compliance Campaign is a Win for Clean Heat
Nov 01, 2025
Zero Disrupt Explained: Heat Geek & BetaTalk's Deep Dive with Adam Chapman (New Heat Pump Installation Initiative)
Oct 16, 2025
Heat Pump in a Three-Storey, Timber-Framed Grade II listed building in Buckinghamshire
Oct 13, 2025
Innovation in Heat Pump Technology Part Two
Oct 11, 2025
Innovative Finance Models for Heat Pump Deployment
Sep 16, 2025
Innovation in Heat Pump Technology - A Heat Pump Ready Episode
Sep 08, 2025
Trade Media Uncovered - The Digital Shift in the HVAC Sector
Aug 31, 2025
HomeTree's Flywheel: How Acquiring Local SMEs Drives a Customer-Centric Energy Business
Aug 21, 2025
Discussing Ambient Loop Heat Networks and Exhaust Air Heat Pumps with Qvantum
Aug 11, 2025
Air to Air in Domestic Properties
Jul 25, 2025
Talking Heat Pumps with Rhiannon
Jul 14, 2025
Heat Pump Books & Heat Pump Training
Jul 06, 2025
IS THE GRANT FOR HEAT PUMP QUALIFICATIONS A HOUSE OF CARDS?
Jun 21, 2025
Heat Recovery: Turning Waste into Warmth with DK Heat Recovery
Jun 17, 2025
Unpacking Heat Pump Finance: The BUS Consultation & Third-Party Solutions
Jun 09, 2025
The Installer Show MD's Personal Heat Pump Journey
Jun 02, 2025
Improving the Heat Pump Customer Journey
May 29, 2025
Smart Heat, Smart Savings: An Expert Consumer Meets Havenwise
May 24, 2025
Intergas Stainless Steel Cylinders - A Heat Pump Game Changer?
May 19, 2025
RAG vs. Hallucinations: The Truth About AI in the Trades
May 14, 2025
Beyond Three Days: Rethinking Heat Pump Installation Training
May 07, 2025
Are Industry Associations Still Relevant? A Deep Dive with the Heat Pump Association
Apr 26, 2025
Thoughts on Heat Pump Systems from Experienced Engineer Dan Large
Apr 19, 2025
A Personal Heat Pump Journey and the Power of Mentorship
Apr 08, 2025
Weather Compensation: The Missing Link in Efficient Heating? (feat. Ken Bone from Ultimate Renewables Supplies)
Apr 05, 2025
Double Standards in Water Treatment: A UK vs. Europe Story
Mar 29, 2025
Can a Boat Race Champion Revolutionise Home Heating? Find Out!
Mar 18, 2025
Heat Pump Strategies: Insights from the UK for US Homeowners
Mar 07, 2025
THE UK's LEGENDARY HEAT PUMP INSTALLER
Mar 04, 2025
Problems with OFGEM - A conversation with Adam Bell
Feb 21, 2025
Visit A Heat Pump - The Successful Nesta project
Feb 10, 2025
How smart, connected and flexible heat pumps can deliver lower fuel bills and higher customer satisfaction
Feb 04, 2025
Did the Government funded Heat Pump Trial Fail?
Jan 31, 2025
Is MVHR any good?
Jan 22, 2025
Expert Heat Pump Customers - Mick Wall Interview
Jan 05, 2025
Spruce up Your Home with a Heat Pump
Dec 24, 2024
How Boiler Engineers Transition to Heat Pumps
Dec 16, 2024
UK's Top Performing Heat Pump Systems on Heat Pump Monitor
Dec 03, 2024
Top Heat Pump Installers in Somerset & Sussex
Nov 27, 2024
MCS ISSUE A CEASE and DESIST
Nov 19, 2024
Mentorship or Send Gas Engineers on Heat Pump PowerPoint Courses?
Oct 31, 2024
Heat Geek and Homely at the Installer Show 2024
Oct 21, 2024
Arguably, Heat Pump Training is Not Working.
Sep 30, 2024
Heat Pumps in Edinburgh - a discussion with SNIPEF
Sep 03, 2024
Heat Loss Tools - Heat Pump Ready Projects
Aug 13, 2024
What do Heat Pump Installers Want? - Live Broadcast at the Installer Show
Jul 31, 2024
What Does a New Government Mean for Energy and Heat Decarbonisation
Jul 14, 2024
Fabric Fifth - has SHDF Mismanagement Wasted Tax Payers Money?
Jun 06, 2024
A conversation with Champion Heat Pump Installers
May 27, 2024
Heat Pump & Fabric First Debate Featuring the Insulation Manufacturers Association
May 10, 2024
The Heat Pump Installer Network
May 02, 2024
Radiator Outputs Could Cause Heat Pump Problems
Apr 12, 2024
The Ideal Experience for a Heat Pump Customer
Mar 26, 2024
Current Issues at the Heat Pump Coalface
Feb 28, 2024
How Swedish Company AIRA Will Help the Heating & Energy Transition
Jan 28, 2024
You are a Special Group of People - Thank you
Jan 21, 2024
Coding the Heating Industry
Dec 31, 2023
Is MCS Fit For Purpose?
Dec 07, 2023
Look at the Best Performing Heat Pump Systems in Real Time
Nov 09, 2023
How Do We Get Flexible Demand on the Electric Grid
Oct 30, 2023
Industrial Heat Solutions with Caldera
Oct 12, 2023
A Live Chat with Ian Rippin CEO of MCS
Sep 26, 2023
Making the Transition Work for Both Consumers and Installers
Aug 26, 2023
Are Heating Manufacturers Misinterpreting Building Regs
Aug 14, 2023
Listening to the heating engineers
Jul 26, 2023
Special Bulletin: The Heat Pump Ready Programme Episode 1
Jun 23, 2023
Exhaust Air Heat Pumps and PVT with NIBE
Jun 20, 2023
Heat Pump Quotations - solving the mystery
Jun 15, 2023
How British Gas Zero Will Decarbonise Homes
Jun 09, 2023
Whole Life Carbon with Daikin and XCO2
May 15, 2023
How to Heat Terrace Houses with Heat Networks
Apr 25, 2023
The EPC debate
Mar 29, 2023
Are Gas Heating Engineers Valued Enough?
Feb 27, 2023
Leading Experts Discuss Fabric, Heat Pumps, Innovation and Policy - 100th Episode
Feb 13, 2023
Building Fabric Issues With Leading Passivhaus Architect Mark Sidall
Jan 20, 2023
Measuring the Best Heat Pump System Designs
Dec 29, 2022
Is Transitioning from a Gas Engineer to Heat Pump Engineer Challenging?
Dec 18, 2022
Heat Pump Certification with KeyMark
Nov 28, 2022
World Ventilate Day
Nov 08, 2022
Boiler or Boiler with a Heat Pump?
Oct 22, 2022
Heat Pumps in Scotland
Oct 05, 2022
Importance of Modulating Flow Temps - UK's First Modulating Domestic Oil Boiler
Sep 25, 2022
What Are the Most Efficient Boilers - modulation & PDHW
Sep 02, 2022
Heat Pump Pipework Insulation Problems & Solutions
Aug 23, 2022
Heating Industry Diversity
Aug 04, 2022
Heat Pump Policy in Practice
Jul 20, 2022
A Live Podcast at the Installer & Elemental Show at the NEC
Jul 14, 2022
How Well do Heat Pumps Perform - looking at the OFGEM data
Jul 07, 2022
Homes with NO Energy Bills - The Octopus Ilke Homes
Jun 17, 2022
Energy Storage & Heat Batteries using WarmStone and Phase Change Materials
Jun 11, 2022
Carbon Coop Retrofit - a Conversation with Marianne, Matt & Johnathan
May 26, 2022
The Heating Controls Industry - A Chat with David Newton
May 20, 2022
A Conversation with The European Heat Pump Association
May 06, 2022
Protons for Breakfast - Flow Temp and HTC Measurements
Apr 23, 2022
Helping You Understand the Heating Industry - a Conversation with Adam Gilhespy from Heat Futures
Apr 01, 2022
Boiler Upgrade Scheme - Emergency Episode
Mar 19, 2022
Talking Heat Pumps with NESTA
Mar 12, 2022
Battery Storage for the Home
Mar 02, 2022
Monitoring Heating Systems
Feb 12, 2022
Fuel Poverty and Modulation
Feb 05, 2022
Cleaning Up Energy with Michael Liebreich
Jan 30, 2022
Why Don't New Build Homes Have Heat Pumps?
Jan 21, 2022
The Training Fiasco in Plumbing & Heating
Dec 21, 2021
The Most Important Component in a Heating System
Dec 14, 2021
Decarbonising Homes- A chat with policy expert Guy Newey
Nov 26, 2021
What Kind of Heat Pump?
Nov 16, 2021
Comfort As A Service - Sero & Optimised Retrofit
Oct 27, 2021
The Heat in Buildings Strategy - A Chat with Mathew Aylott from BEIS
Oct 21, 2021
Frustration With The Boiler Industry
Oct 16, 2021
Can ALL Homes Be Heated With Heat Pumps - Theoretically YES
Oct 05, 2021
Big Heat Pumps - Talking to Dave Pearson from Star Renewable Energy
Sep 18, 2021
What is a Hydrogen and Hydrogen Ready Boiler?
Sep 05, 2021
What is the Best Boiler - if you can not have a heat pump yet?
Aug 23, 2021
Zoning Heat Pumps Can Be Bad For Comfort & Efficiency
Aug 07, 2021
Chatting with John Cantor Author of the book Heat Pumps for the Home
Jul 17, 2021
Decarbonising Heat in America: a conversation with Nate The House Whisperer
Jul 01, 2021
Retrofit with PAS2035 and TrustMark
Jun 07, 2021
Solar Thermal Hybrid
May 28, 2021
To Heat Pump Hull & Back
May 15, 2021
Evergreen Energy's Approach to the Electrification of Heat
Apr 29, 2021
5 Common Mistakes with Heat Pump Installs (Part 2)
Apr 12, 2021
5 Common Mistakes with Heat Pump Installs (Part 1)
Apr 10, 2021
Ground Source & Water Source Heat Pumps
Mar 18, 2021
How to Train the Army of Engineers Needed to Decarbonise Heat
Mar 03, 2021
Community Energy Projects, Energy Hubs & Local Area Energy Plans
Feb 17, 2021
Are Heat Pumps Cheap to Run
Feb 06, 2021
Can I Have a Heat Pump
Jan 29, 2021
What is Heat As A Service
Jan 03, 2021
How To Get MCS Accredited & the Green Homes Grant Bottleneck
Dec 17, 2020
Fabric First? Not always
Nov 30, 2020
Ten Heat Pump Myths
Nov 15, 2020
Are Heat Pumps Expensive? A discussion with Evergreen Energy about Assignment of Rights
Nov 05, 2020
What is The Green Homes Grant ?
Oct 27, 2020
Split Systems, Heat Pumps with Propane and Other Types of Refrigerant
Aug 15, 2020
District Heating, Heat Networks, Solar Heat Networks part 2
Jul 28, 2020
District Heating, Heat Networks, Solar Heat Networks part 1
Jul 24, 2020
Heat Pumps and Solar Heat - The Challenges and Complexities of Installing Low Carbon Technologies Part 2
Jul 13, 2020
Heat Pumps and Solar Heat - The Challenges and Complexities of Installing Low Carbon Technologies
Jul 03, 2020
How to be a Renewable Heating Engineer
Jun 10, 2020
Renewable Heating with Dan Cæsar from the Fully Charged Show
May 22, 2020
Battery Storage - Lithium and Sodium
May 02, 2020
Heat Pump and Policy Chat with Jan Rosenow Richard Lowes and Lee Fischer
Apr 30, 2020
Low Carbon Heating and Soil Regeneration
Apr 23, 2020
Renewable Heating - Heat Pumps & Solar Heat with Grant
Mar 30, 2020
Renewable Heating - Kensa Part 2
Mar 13, 2020
Renewable Energy - Kensa Ground Source Heat Pumps Part 1
Mar 03, 2020
Renewable Energy with IMS Heat Pumps
Feb 23, 2020
Renewable Energy - Diversity and Inclusion
Feb 12, 2020
Renewable Heating - Heat Policy Part 2
Feb 11, 2020
Renewable Heating - Heat Policy and Regulation
Feb 04, 2020
Renewable Heating - Bristol Heating Engineers
Jan 25, 2020
Renewable Heating - Heat Pumps
Jan 16, 2020
Renewable Heating - Solar Thermal
Jan 09, 2020
Renewable Heating - An overview
Jan 02, 2020
Heat Pumps in the UK - An Introduction
Nov 21, 2019
Diploma Plumbing Students looking for Apprenticeships
Nov 07, 2019
Heating System Training at The Heating Academy
Nov 07, 2019
IMI Hydronic Engineering Chat with Alex, Luke and Scott.
Oct 21, 2019
Plumbing Apprenticeships and What its Like to be a Plumbing Apprentice
Oct 07, 2019
IMI Training with The Heating Hub
Sep 24, 2019
Gas Safety Week 2019 with Gas Safety Super Heroes and the Gas Safe Register
Sep 19, 2019
MCS and RHI Problems in Renewable Technology - a late night chat in Wales with Heating Engineers Steve, Brandon and Dyfed
Sep 16, 2019
BetaTalk Revision H&S 3(a) Ladders and Step ladders
Sep 11, 2019
BetaTalk Revision Science 1(a) Mass, Weight and SI units of Measurement
Sep 11, 2019
Gas Training and Heating Chat with Tony Rees from Guilford College and Octillian Academy
Sep 05, 2019
BetaTalk Revision - Health & Safety 1(a) HASAWA, Hazards and Risks
Sep 05, 2019
BetaTalk Revision - Health & Safety 1(b) Risk Assessments, Method Statements and Permits to Work.
Sep 05, 2019
BetaTalk Revision - Health & Safety 2(a) COSHH, RIDDOR and PUWER
Sep 05, 2019
BetaTalk Revision - Health & Safety 2(b) Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) and Personnel Protective Equipment PPE
Sep 05, 2019
Plumbing & Heating Chat with Kieth, Ian & Andrew
Aug 29, 2019
How to be a Gas Engineer and Gas Training
Aug 24, 2019
Solar Thermal Heating Systems - Busting the Myths & Why it's so Good
Aug 13, 2019
Gas Safe Engineers, Andy, Lee and Ian Discuss the Gas Boiler Industry and Social Media.
Aug 12, 2019