Government to expand Boiler Upgrade Scheme: comment

"If the UK doesn’t make the leap away from gas boilers to electric heat pumps that can run on British renewable electricity, as a nation we’ll become ever more dependent on foreign gas imports as North Sea output continues to decline with any new licences making very little difference.

“The Boiler Upgrade Scheme has seen around 100,000 applications already and expanding it to more net zero technologies means more choice for consumers that want to make upgrades. It also implies that the Government is backing its existing policies instead of cutting them in the upcoming Budget, as has been rumoured [2], which would create uncertainty in the industry and the jobs that rely on it, as well as damaging investment by sending mixed signals."