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Electrification Strategy (Heat, Transport)
Replacing gas boilers with heat pumps; EVs for fleet; decoupling from fossil fuel.
10 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead · Last reviewed July 2026
The single most important technical move in most net-zero plans is electrification - replacing the direct burning of fossil fuels with electricity that can be decarbonised. Understanding electrification, especially of heat and transport, is central to decarbonisation.
In this lesson
- 01Why electrification is central
- 02Electrifying heat
- 03Electrifying transport
- 04The grid-decarbonisation synergy
- 05The efficiency-first principle
- 06Challenges of electrification
- 07Electrification in the roadmap
- 08Sources and further reading