Electrification of Heat Policy Lead in @EnergyGovUK. Policy Fellow @CSciPol. Spreading news & views on energy. Tweeting in a personal capacity.
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Today we've published the Warm Homes Plan. The Plan details how we will help reduce energy bills and transform our housing stock by upgrading millions of homes up and down the UK with solar panels, batteries, heat pumps & insulation 👉gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Ahead of publishing the Warm Homes Plan:
🏡 We've announced that the Boiler Upgrade Scheme will expand to support air to air heat pumps & heat batteries gov.uk/government/consultati…
🏢 We're also consulting on the future role of alternative clean heat tech gov.uk/government/consultati…
The UK Govt is putting heat pumps at the heart of its Industrial Strategy. Published yesterday the 'Clean Energy Industries Sector Plan' list heat pumps as 1 of 6 areas with highest growth potential & commits to a 10 point action plan to grow the sector: gov.uk/government/publicatio…
We've published new legislation to relax rules around permitted development for heat pumps. Changes will come into effect from 29 May and should make it easier for consumers to install a heat pump without a full planning application.
For more info visit: legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025…
Today we've announced new measures to help UK consumers switch from fossil fuels to low carbon heating, including proposals to extend grants to new tech like heat batteries and air-to-air heat pumps, and further investment in the heat pump supply chain -> gov.uk/government/news/famil…
Today we launch our ‘warm and fuzzy’ heat pump campaign across TV, radio and the web to help raise awareness of heat pumps and the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant. Watch the video below or visit the campaign webpage at gov.uk/heatpumps
Yesterday we published a review by the @EnergySysCat which looked at air to air heat pumps and the important role they could play in decarbonising UK homes: gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Published today: New data and reports from the Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project show that heat pumps are efficient, widely suitable across UK homes and deliver high levels of consumer satisfaction. Read more from @EnergySysCat here: es.catapult.org.uk/news/heat…
Together with the @GSHPAssociation and the Renewable Energy Consumer Code, we've also published analysis of the performance of ground source heat pumps from Ofgem data showing how they can outperform boilers and other heat pump technologies gshpa.site-ym.com/news/68966…
As part of Govt’s update on the UK Hydrogen Strategy, we’ve announced that we’ll consult in 2025 on the role of hydrogen for domestic heating. We’ll also be consulting on whether to allow transmission level blending of hydrogen with natural gas: assets.publishing.service.go…
An early Christmas present: We’ve published a consultation on raising product standards for space heaters. This includes increasing performance standards for heat pumps and boilers, and changing energy labels so gas boilers can’t be more than F-rated gov.uk/government/consultati…
Today, we've published new stats on heat pump installations in the UK. This shows 38,305 government-supported heat pumps were installed in the last year (up to the end of Sept 2024), a 46% increase on the previous year. Take a look at the data here -> gov.uk/government/statistics…
Today colleagues at @MHCLG have published a consultation on reforms to Energy Performance Certificates. This includes plans for a new smart readiness metric & new heating system metric, to encourage adoption of low carbon heating. More details here: gov.uk/government/consultati…
Today we’ve announced a huge package of measures to accelerate the deployment of heat pumps, including liberalising planning rules, increasing funding for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme & introducing a reformed Clean Heat Market Mechanism in April gov.uk/government/news/help-…🧵(1/7)
We’re announcing the first funding award from our Heat Pump Investment Accelerator Competition, with @IdealHeating being awarded £5m to scale up manufacture of heat pumps and pre-plumbed hot water cylinders made in the UK. 🧵 (6/7)