Ethan Wadsworth is Director at DiscreteHeat, the Manchester manufacturer behind ThermaSkirt — a low-temperature skirting board heating system with over 85,000 UK installations and a track record spanning NHS, MoD and deep retrofit programmes across 13 countries.
ThermaSkirt is designed for the low flow temperatures heat pumps operate at. It delivers output retention levels radiators can't match, which matters enormously in the existing social housing stock the Warm Homes Plan is targeting. BSRIA-tested and installed at Energy House 2.0 at Salford University, it addresses one of the most overlooked barriers to successful heat pump retrofit: the emitter.
Ethan sits on the GMCA Low Carbon Industry Group and works closely with the Future Homes Standard and Healthy Homes Standard policy landscape.
The Warm Homes Plan will retrofit millions of social homes. Getting the heat emitter right is the difference between a system that works and one that doesn't.