If we were in charge....
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Support open-source projects with a full time member of BEIS dedicated to caretaking of GitHub projects. Someone expert in Node.js and Javascript.
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All heat networks must post all bulk heat, gas and electricity meter data to IPFS and index on PCDB database.
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Support data storage by providing an IPFS pinning service and gateway for performance data.
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Fully fund the Energy Saving Trust. They played an important role that has been lost with motivations now for commercial reasons rather than purely for energy efficiency reasons.
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Update pipework guidance - assist in short-circuiting current obstacles with fresh academic study into noise vs velocity in pipes (boring but very important)
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Run a public leage table of the most efficient heat networks, with detail on how results are achieved. This is so that copy/paste consultants can start copying the best rather than the last.
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Offer a prize to the most efficient heat networks over a full year of open monitoring.
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Make all guidance relating to low-carbon technologies, such as heat networks, free of charge. At least in an abbreviated checklist form that allows the public and trades to check if something complies. It has taken over 10 years for someone external to CIBSE to uncover important guidance errors and correct them. The guidance that decides how successful we are at achieving zero-carbon must be in the light. All guidance has been writen by volunteers (author including).