Ian Rippin: With home energy costs out of control, how realistic are the sustainable alternatives?

If you’ve ever thought about installing solar PV, heat pumps, biomass heaters or battery storage you will want to listen to today’s episode.  Our guest today is CEO of MCS, the standards body for domestic renewable installations. Ian Rippin is here to discuss costs v benefits, the boiler upgrade scheme, upskilling and certifying our workforce and a new low carbon transition apprenticeship and whether we can be ready to  meet the government targets of installing 600,000 heat pumps by 2028. Is home-grown, cost effective energy really the way forward? And how do we mitigate the risk of cowboys?  This is the man to ask.