Heat pump grants worth £5,000 to kickstart low carbon heating

 

Homeowners in England and Wales will be offered subsidies of £5,000 from next April to help them replace old gas boilers with low-carbon heat pumps.

The grants are part of the government's strategy to reduce carbon emissions from heating homes and other buildings.

New funding totalling £3.9bn aims to decarbonise heating, including in social housing. It is hoped no new gas boilers will be sold after 2035.

Experts say the budget is too low and the plans not ambitious enough.

Ministers say the subsidises will make heat pumps a comparable price to a new gas boiler. But the £450m being allocated for the subsidies over three years will cover a maximum of 90,000 pumps.

Heating buildings is a large contributor to the UK's overall greenhouse gas emissions, representing 21% of overall emissions, so there is pressure on the Heat and Buildings Strategy to deliver effective reductions.

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