HeyJaredEnergy Unwrapped with Mick Wall
Independent views and explanations on energy and renewables.Most episodes are conversations with guests from across the sector, alongside occasional solo deep dives into heat pumps, tariffs, data and real-world performance.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Aug 26, 2026
- Audience
- Apple #139 · US
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 10, 2026
Latest episodes
Heat Pumps Are Not New | Nathan Gambling | Betatalk (opens the original)
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Heat pumps get talked about like they're brand new technology — they're not. On this episode of the Energy Unwrapped Podcast, I sit down with Nathan Gambling, lecturer in plumbing and heating and host of the Beta Talk podcast, to trace how Britain actually got its heating: from single-room fires, through town gas and the conversion to natural gas, to the combi boiler boom — and how heat pumps have quietly been running in the background the whole time, including one that heated a Norwich building
Mixergy's Pete Armstrong: How Hot Water Cylinders Solve Grid Curtailment (opens the original)
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Hot water cylinders are one of the UK's biggest untapped energy storage assets — and most homes don't even know it. In this episode of the Energy Unwrapped Podcast, I sit down with Pete Armstrong, CEO and co-founder of Mixergy, to unpack a decade of engineering behind the smart hot water cylinder.We get into how top-down heating and stratification let a single 200L tank store roughly 10 kWh of usable energy, why there's something like 10 times more energy sitting in the UK's hot water tanks than
James Clark | Elite Services Group (opens the original)
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How does a gas engineer become a heat pump specialist? In this episode of the Energy Unwrapped podcast, Mick Wall speaks with James Clark of Elite Services Group about his journey from gas engineering into heat pumps and renewable heating. James explains how his approach to heat pump design and installation developed, the impact of Heat Geek training, and why good installers need to keep learning as the industry changes. We also discuss communication, customer handover, aftercare and the importa
Open Energy Monitor: The Tools Changing UK Energy (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Energy Unwrapped podcast, I speak to Glyn Hudson and Trystan Lea from OpenEnergyMonitor. We go back to the early days of OpenEnergyMonitor, from Glyn and Trystan meeting as childhood friends, to building early energy monitoring hardware, hand-soldered circuit boards, open-source software and the arrival of the Raspberry Pi. We also talk about how OpenEnergyMonitor moved from electricity monitoring into heat pump monitoring, how HeatPumpMonitor.org came about, and the role
PredBat Explained | Save More With Your Home Battery (opens the original)
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Want to save more with your home battery? In this episode of the Energy Unwrapped podcast, I'm joined by Richard Eyres from PredBat to look at one of the most powerful home battery optimisation platforms available today. I've personally been running the open-source version of PredBat within Home Assistant for around 18 months, using it to automatically optimise my home battery against solar forecasts, electricity tariffs and household demand. It has genuinely saved me money, but it's always been
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