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Title: Gas Boiler Fittings Outnumbered Heat Pumps By 15 To One in UK Last
Year - Report

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/10/1452...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Gas boiler fittings outnumbered new heat
pump installations by more than 15 to one last year, and only one in eight
new homes were equipped with the low-carbon alternative despite the
government's clean energy targets. Poorer households are also being shut out
of the heat pump market as the grants available are inadequate and should be
increased, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation thinktank. The
UK has the slowest introduction of heat pumps in Europe: fewer than 100,000
were fitted last year, compared with 1.5m gas boilers. Most of the boilers
were replacements for existing units, but new houses are still being built
with gas as standard -- only 13% of new homes came with heat pumps last year.
If the government is to meet its net zero targets, switching people to heat
pumps will be essential: about 450,000 households will need to install them
each year by 2030. But the grant available through the boiler upgrade scheme -
- $9,700 in England and Wales -- still leaves homeowners paying about $7000
on average.

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