New housebuilding rules can ‘kick start’ heat pump market

The proposed ban on fossil fuel heating in new homes is desperately needed to “kick start” the market for heat pumps and achieve the government’s new target of raising annual installations to 600,000 by 2028, the Environmental Audit Committee has been told. Jan Rosenow, director of European programmes at the Regulatory Assistance Project, said continuing to rely on subsidies “is not going to solve this problem quickly enough.”

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