Martyn Bridges

Martyn Bridges, Director of External Affairs, Worcester Bosch, takes a look at what installers need to know about air-to-air heat pumps policy:  As we navigate yet another summer of record-breaking temperatures, the conversation around how we heat (and now cool) our homes is shifting. For the second year running, we’re experiencing uncomfortably hot properties, leaving millions of homeowners searching for relief. […]

Martyn Bridges at Worcester Bosch explains how the Clean Heat Market Mechanism is policing a missing market. The government has published official estimates for the number of retrofit heat pump installations in Q1 2026. As the industry operates under the strict mandates of the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM), we were very interested to review […]

Martyn Bridges, Director of External Affairs at Worcester Bosch, asks whether now’s the time to introduce mandatory annual boiler servicing. The heating industry headlines everybody seems to be presented with is the government’s persuasion to homeowners to replace their boiler with a heat pump. The market is growing – sales were up 9% between Q4 […]

Martyn Bridges, Director of External Affairs at Worcester Bosch, explains why, with year one of the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) recently completed, now’s the time to reassess the UK’s clean heat policy. The 31st of March marked the end of year one for the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM), and it’s now a critical […]

In his latest column, Martyn Bridges, Director of External Affairs at Worcester Bosch, asks whether the marginal oil and gas efficiency gains from revising the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling directives are worth the multi-million-pound price tag to implement. The Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Lots 1 and 2 are currently being revisited by the European Commission. […]