Thursday 3 July 2025

Responding to the latest data from the European Heat Pump Association, Garry Felgate, Chief Executive of The MCS Foundation, said, “It is great news that the UK is accelerating heat pump sales and installations, thanks in large part to the £7,500 grants available to households who want to switch away from fossil fuel heating.  

“Yet we have a long way to go even to catch up with other European nations, not to mention meeting climate goals, which require us to be installing 1.5 million heat pumps a year by 2035. 

“Recent Government announcements are set to increase the UK’s upward trajectory. The Future Homes Standard could mean hundreds of thousands of new homes being built with heat pumps every year, and the Government’s £13.2 billion commitment for the Warm Homes Plan is a boost to the sector.  

“But to accelerate at the pace required we must see action to reduce electricity prices so that heat pumps become much more financially attractive. The fairest and most effective way to do this would be to move levies off electricity bills into general taxation, which would both tackle fuel poverty and incentivise heat pump uptake.”