How swapping gas for clean tech could cut household energy bills by more than 40 per cent

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Octopus Energy founder Greg Jackson launches the Sustainable Markets Initiative's latest report - Credit: Octopus Energy
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Octopus Energy founder Greg Jackson launches the Sustainable Markets Initiative's latest report - Credit: Octopus Energy

Two new reports explore how heat pumps, solar panels, and batteries could make big energy bills 'a thing of the past' - and how the domestic clean tech boom could be turbocharged by one simple policy change

Swapping gas boilers for green home technologies, such as heat pumps, solar panels, and batteries, can cut energy bills by more than 40 per cent and increase a home's value by up to 16 per cent. And the...

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