Fresh out the CCC oven – the Seventh Carbon Budget sets out a new trajectory for heat pumps.
The new Balanced Pathway pushes back heat pump installations into the 30s – more realistic given current progress, but still ambitious.
The new Balanced Pathway pushes back heat pump installations into the 30s – more realistic given current progress, but still ambitious.
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- Make electricity cheaper by removing policy costs from electricity bills (!)
- Continue subsidies
- Signal to industry with a boiler phase out date and ruling out hydrogen
- Enforce the Clean Heat Market Mechanism
- Pilot area-based schemes
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General electrification accounts for 58% of emissions reduction, and heat pumps = ¼ of that.
Unlike CB6, CB7 clearly states no role for hydrogen in heating. 75% of all clean heating should be delivered by heat pumps.
Not EPC though - it’s a shambolic system that isn’t fit for purpose!