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The Heating and Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC) has blamed the government’s lack of energy efficiency schemes for a 2 per cent drop in boiler sales last year.
Total sales of UK boilers in 2014 were 1,663,398 compared to 1,631,386 in 2015. The HHIC said this fall was due to the close of the Green Deal and the winding down of ECO, which will still be available to customers until March 2017. Replacement government schemes for energy efficiency are yet to be announced.
Director of HHIC, Stewart Clements, says: “Green Deal and the ECO programme contributed to the market during 2014 and their cancellation or reduction has seen sales of boilers within the UK fall by 1.9% in 2015.”
Clements added: “The underlying market remains stable and we hope that as people renovate and refurbish their homes and new build programmes are extended, 2016 will see sales start to rise.”
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