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BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast

Nathan Gambling BetaTeach

BetaTalk is the recent winner of the British Renewable Energy Awards 2020 communication category “which recognises an organisation who has done most to enhance awareness or championed positi...

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Beta Talk Podcast: Heat Pump Week Special – Answering Your Top Guild Questions

Send us Fan Mail Release Date: Heat Pump Week (UK) Host: Nathan Gambling (Beta Teach) Guests: Joe Sharp (Editor, Installer Online)Barry Shar...

63:46Oct 13, 2026

Thermal Storage and Demand-Side Flexibility: Inside the Tepeo Heat Battery

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview In this episode of BetaTalk, host Nathan Gambling sits down with Johan du Plessis, founder and CEO of Tepe...

57:01Oct 8, 2026

Domestic Air to Air Heatpumps

Send us Fan Mail On the birthday of my late mum and the first anniversary of the Guild of Master Heat Engineers I have finally managed to ge...

73:44Sep 30, 2026

Heat Pumps, AI & Donkeys

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of BetaTalk, host Nathan welcomes heat pump expert Graham Hendra to discuss his latest project: an AI-drive...

64:46Sep 7, 2026

On the Tools: What Being a Renewable Heating Engineer Is Really Like Today

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Nathan speaks with Guild engineers Michael Waring (Bromley Energy) and Liam Knowles (The Heating People) a...

67:41Aug 18, 2026

How the Heating Industry Scaled Incompetence

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I give a brief run down of what is currently happening in the sector. I discuss the recent Installer Show a...

40:44Jul 13, 2026

E.ON & Podero: Can We Automate Whole-Home Energy?

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Guests: Zac Curtis (Innovation Lead for NextGen Home at E.ON) & Chris Bernkopf (CEO of Podero) How do you s...

59:24Jun 11, 2026

The Phantom Efficiency: Exposing the Engineering Failure of UK Heating Controls

Send us Fan Mail Overview In this episode, we move beyond the industry’s obsession with nominal appliance ratings to confront a uncomfortabl...

67:50Jun 2, 2026

Financing the Energy Transition: Green Mortgages, PLF, and the Future of Home Heating

Send us Fan Mail Ryan Jude of the Green Finance Institute (GFI) discusses how to mobilise capital for the UK's green home revolution. Overvi...

63:33May 20, 2026

Inside the New UK Heat Pump Association: What the Industry Merger Means for Net Zero

Send us Fan Mail The UK heat pump sector is entering a new phase. In this episode, we speak with senior leaders from the newly formed Associ...

74:47Apr 28, 2026

Chemical Inhibitors, Heat Pumps & Boilers: Why Heating Engineers Prefer VDI 2035 - a Chemical Free Solution to Corrosion

Send us Fan Mail Nathan chats to his friend Ricky from Thoroughflush about water quality in UK heating systems. Ricky leads the way in helpi...

78:11Apr 15, 2026

Heat Pump Ready Programme 2 with Nesta and Carbon Trust

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Betatalk features Will Rivers, associate director of residential decarbonisation at the Carbon Trust and Ma...

75:40Apr 7, 2026

Graham Hendra (Haier) on Air to Air Heat Pumps and the "Fridge" Fallacy

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of BetaTalk, Nathan sits down with industry veteran Graham Hendra to unpick the complexities and misconcept...

65:24Mar 23, 2026

Changing the Apprenticeship model in Plumbing and Heating for the Future Homes Standard

Send us Fan Mail This episode discusses in lay terms the Position Paper which you can find on the betateach website and you can also downloa...

40:49Mar 2, 2026

Archaeological Engineering: James Twallin on Gas Leaks and Church Heat Pumps

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of BetaTalk, Nathan welcomes back engineer and coder James Twallin to discuss the technical nuances of the...

64:04Feb 15, 2026

Data, Comfort, and the "Expert Heat Pump Consumer" with Mick Wall

Send us Fan Mail Primary Expert: Mick Wall (IT Specialist, University of Sheffield & Founder of Energy Stats UK ) Host: Nathan Gambling (Bet...

74:47Jan 26, 2026

Demystifying NESO: Grid Constraints, CCGT Maintenance, and the Kilowatts.io Dashboard

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Nathan sits down with economist Ben Watts, the creator of the real-time energy dashboard at kilowatts.io ....

76:46Jan 12, 2026

The Space Between Marketing and Heating Science in the Heating Sector

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of BetaTalk, I talk about a subject I am deeply passionate about marketing within the UK heating sector. Th...

53:08Dec 19, 2025

A Historical Moment: John Ewbank & the New Frontier of Air-to-Air Heat Pumps

Send us Fan Mail BetaTalk Podcast Show Notes: Air-to-Air Heat Pump Pioneering with John In this landmark episode of BetaTalk, the host sits...

75:19Nov 26, 2025

Disrupting Zero Disrupt: Inside EDF's 'Express Heat Pump Initiative'

Send us Fan Mail This week on BetaTalk, we're doing something truly special: the FIRST EVER exclusive interview with EDF Heat Pumps abo...

63:16Nov 5, 2025