Designing a National Retrofit Advice Service: The Front Door to Your Warm Home
Download as PDF There are a number of different energy efficiency schemes supporting households upgrade and decarbonise their homes, including the Warm Homes: Local Grant, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, the Energy Company Obligation, the Great British Insulation Scheme and any schemes that replace them from 2026. This can make the customer journey confusing as it […]
Electrify Heat 2025 Campaign Priorities
Download as PDF After a highly impactful 2024, the Electrify Heat coalition has turned its attention to a revised set of policy challenges. Read on to learn more about the key interventions we’re hoping to progress this year, and how they’re central to our shared mission of electrifying heat. Publish the Warm Homes Plan Implement […]
Electrify Heat 2024 Wrapped
Download as PDF 2024 was a huge year in the clean heat policy space, with a change of Government and a veritable landslide of policy wins for the Electrify Heat coalition. This corresponded with a bumper year for heat pump installations with record-breaking levels achieved; all the more impressive against a backdrop of declining installations […]
5 reasons the next Prime Minister should make smart, efficient heating an infrastructure priority
With debates hotting up ahead of the General Election, discussions on how the UK shifts away from fossil heating are back on our screens. With more and more people concerned about the impacts of a warming planet, clean heat can help reduce the 14% of UK carbon emissions caused by household heating. Heat pumps are […]
Priorities for clean heat: 8 steps to supercharge clean, efficient home heating
Download a PDF version Download PDF Priorities for clean heat: 8 steps to supercharge clean, efficient home heating to lower bills, boost security, and create jobs. 1. Remove levies from electricity bills Lower the running cost of electricity and, by extension, heat pumps. Progress with consultations to restructure the way that levies are paid on […]
What the March updates mean for clean heat policy: 3 key takeaways
Download PDF The government has made a series of announcements to the UK’s policy on clean heat. Overall, it’s something of a mixed bag – with updates on the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS), Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) and standards for gas boilers. Below, we take each area in turn, and consider the key take-aways […]
Letter to Claire Coutinho on the Clean Heat Market Mechanism
Download Letter Re: Support for the Clean Heat Market Mechanism Dear Secretary of State, Following recent reports that the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is considering scrapping the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM), we are writing to you as a cross-industry coalition to express our support for the policy, and to encourage you […]
The Clean Heat Market Mechanism
Download PDF What is the Clean Heat Market Mechanism? The Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) is designed to drive investment in high-quality production and installation of clean, efficient heat pumps; future-proofing the UK’s heating appliance supply chain and creating new green jobs in our industrial heartlands. The CHMM provides a clear framework and incentive structure […]
November Heat Pump Policy Update
Download a PDF version Download PDF November Update: Autumn Statement, Clean Heat Market Mechanism Announcement, and Boiler Upgrade Scheme stats It’s been a whirlwind week in the world of heat pump policy, with a flurry of positive announcements and publications from across Government. Here are the highlights. Autumn Statement The Autumn Statement saw welcome announcements. […]
MP Briefing: The Future Homes Standard
Download a PDF version Download PDF What (and where) is the Future Homes Standard? Government ambition is for the homes of the future to be built to highly efficient standards with low carbon heating, predominantly heat pumps. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) will amend Building Regulations, mandating new houses to be […]
