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Retrofit Today briefing: Wednesday 14 October 2026
Three stories from the last 24 hours and one closing date from our recent stories.
Stories from the last 24 hours
Government to regulate heating oil market as record numbers apply for £9,000 heat pump grant
Ministers have accepted the Competition and Markets Authority's call for a regulatory regime covering heating oil suppliers, while record numbers of households applied to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme following the uplifted grant for oil-heated homes.
Salix reports 25,000 social housing measures and 560 public sector projects in 2025-26
The government-backed delivery body's annual report records a year of Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme and Home Upgrade Grant work ahead of its planned merger into a new Warm Homes Agency.
MCS opens consultation on new product standard for home battery storage
The certification body has published a draft MCS 042 product standard for battery storage, with comments due by 10 November, as installations in 2026 pass 60,000 by the end of September.
Closing soon
The consultation closes on Friday 16 October 2026.
About this briefing
Published on weekday mornings. Every item comes from a story Retrofit Today has already published and checked against its sources, from dates organisers have published, or from our data trackers. See the events and awards calendar, or get the week's stories by email with the weekly newsletter.