The government has awarded more than £15 million across 24 projects that aim to boost performance and reduce costs of heat pumps.
The funding is part of the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy(BEIS)’s £60 million Heat Pump Ready programme and relates to projects due to complete in 2025.
A full list of the supported schemes is provided below but they include a free heat pump home survey and design tool, a project designed to enable mas rollout of the technology across social housing and advanced modelling for heat as a service.
Business and energy minister Lord Callanan said: “In light of rising global gas and oil prices, getting low-carbon heating technology into homes is a priority for this government as it will help households ditch the costly fossil fuels that are driving up bills.
“Heat pumps are a proven, reliable technology that uses cheaper renewable energy produced in the UK. We are already bringing costs down through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme and slashing VAT to zero, but by finding innovative ways to make them even cheaper and easier to install, we will help more homes see the benefits even quicker.”
| LEAD ORGANISATION | PROJECT TITLE |
| Build Test Solutions | MEASURED: The role of measured building performance in heat pump specification, system design and management |
| City Science Corporation Limited | Advanced Modelling for Heat as a Service |
| EDF | Catalyst – Accelerating the heat pump journey |
| Energiesprong UK Ltd | Integrated Comfort and Billing Service |
| Green Energy Options (geo) | AI Smart Heat Pathway |
| GenGame Ltd | Total Home Optimisation Management (THOM) |
| Guru Systems Ltd | Guru Smart Heat Pumps: developing tools for social housing landlords to enable heat pump installation at scale across the UK |
| Guru Systems Ltd | Guru Verify for Heat Pumps: delivering best practice install, commissioning and maintenance verification tools to the Heat Pump market |
| Hildebrand Technology Ltd | Glow Heat Pump Community |
| Hoare Lea | Right sizing heat pumps |
| Home Infrastructure Technology Limited (Add to my mortgage) | Green Homeowner Loans |
| ICAX Ltd | Heat Pump Manufacturing Automation for Scale and Cost |
| Kensa Heat Pumps Limited | Highly Flexible Storage Heat Pump (HFSHP) |
| Mixergy Ltd | Making Efficient Systems around Heat-pumps (MESH) |
| Parity Projects Ltd | Performance |
| Q-Bot Ltd | Free Heat Pump Home Survey and Design Tool |
| RJ Barwick Ltd | Archetypal Heat Pump Retrofit for 175,000 Non-Trads |
| Switchee Ltd. | Digitising the Customer Journey of Heat Pumps in Social Housing |
| The MCS Service Company Limited | EST MCS Heat Pump Consumer Journey |
| Thermoelectric Conversion Systems Ltd | Two stage heat pump with greywater energy recovery |
| Thormer Solutions Limited | Total Heatpump Installation Solution (THIS) |
| Ventive Ltd | Modular Heat Pumps for Cell Based Microfactory Assembly |
| VIA Analytics Limited | Heat Pathway |
| Wondrwall Limited | Wondrwall: Intelligent air-sourcing to net zero |
BEIS said the funding would support 37 businesses across the 24 projects and estimated it would create 300 jobs and leverage £6.5 million of private investment.
The department stressed its aim was for heat pumps to cost the same as fossil fuel boilers to buy and run by 2030 at the latest with big reductions of at least 25-50% by 2025.