Weak heat pump uptake harming efforts to cut emissions, government warned

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UK heat pump rollout criticised as too slow by public spending watchdog

Installations must speed up 11-fold as advisers say latest changes to scheme likely to make 2028 target even harderThe public spending watchdog has criticised the slow pace of the government’s heat pump rollout just days after ministers postponed an important scheme designed to increase the rate of installations.A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that heat pump installations would need to accelerate 11-fold if the government i…

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Low uptake of heat pumps hampering efforts to cut emissions, watchdog warns

A report says the Government needs to engage ‘every household’ in the shift to clean heating and spell out sooner the role hydrogen can play.

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Britain's emissions cuts hampered by slow heat pump uptake, watchdog says

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Britain's emissions cuts hampered by slow heat pump uptake, watchdog says

LONDON: Britain's progress in cutting emissions in the home heating sector is being hampered by a slow uptake of heat pumps, a parliamentary watchdog said in a report on Monday (Mar 18). WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Most of Britain’s homes are heated by gas and the home heating sector accounts for ar

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Plans to swap boilers for heat pumps hit the skids amid confusion and high costs

PLANS to swap boilers for heat pumps are hitting the skids, a report says. Costs are high, most people do not know what the pumps are or why they should care, found the National Audit Office. Plans to swap boilers for heat pumps are hitting the skidsAlamy The Government wants to install 600,000 of the energy-efficient, low-carbon pumps a year by 2028, and up to 1.6million a year by 2035. But in a recent boiler upgrade scheme, 18,900 were install…