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Environmental Audit Committee Chair has joined calls for extending subsidies for heat pump installations well beyond 2022 to provide training and investment certainty
The Green Homes Grant is proceeding at a “snail’s pace” and will fail to meet its heat pump installation targets without greater government commitment, a parliamentary oversight committee has warned.
MP Philip Dunne, chair of parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), said that BEIS Minister Lord Callanan has confirmed to the cross-party oversight body that an estimated 20,000 heat pumps out of a 600,000 target had been so far installed under the Green Homes Grant. The scheme was launched four months ago with the aim of subsidising improvements in the energy efficiency of UK homes, as well as expanding use of heat pumps.