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Parliamentary committee review of government heat pump adoption targets is told more attractive packages must be provided to end users to make the technology more commercially attractive
Government ambitions to begin installing hundreds of thousands of heat pumps annually from 2028 will rely on creating a strong consumer proposition to drive demand for the technology. The comments were made during a recent one-off evidence session hosted by Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) to scrutinise recently revealed plans for 600,000 heat pumps to be installed across the UK each year by the end of the decade.
Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive officer for utilities trade body Energy UK, said the organisation saw strong demand from members and other energy suppliers to begin installing heat pump technologies in homes. However, she argued that there remained major barriers to expand take-up due to a failure to create an attractive proposition to