Boiler Upgrade Scheme statistics released: comment

"Heat pump sales have surged in the US, where they are dubbed ‘freedom pumps’ and Europe since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and are starting to gain momentum in the UK. This comes despite the gas industry pushing 'campaigns of misinformation' around the technology, as one Government Minister put it, and confusion from the Government on its Clean Heat Market Mechanism that aims to boost heat pump sales.

"As the North Sea output inevitably continues to decline, unless we start to shift away from gas boilers, then we'll just have to import more gas from abroad to burn in them. Heat pumps can run off electrons from offshore wind farms out in the North Sea so boosting the UK’s energy independence."