Responding to today’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan Garry Felgate, CEO of The MCS Foundation, said, “The Government’s restated commitment to reducing electricity prices and significantly increasing heat pumps installations is welcome. MCS data shows that existing Government policies such as the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grants have helped boost heat pump uptake across the UK.

“What is needed now to reach the target of 1.5 million heat pumps installed every year is real action to reduce electricity prices so that heat pumps are always cheaper to run than a gas boiler. Moving levies off electricity bills into general taxation in the upcoming Autumn Budget would both tackle fuel poverty and finally set the country on a trajectory to replacing fossil fuel heating entirely.”