Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the use of infrared heating.

BEIS research to date, such as the Cost Optimal Domestic Electrification^[1]project, has compared infrared heating with other electrical heating options and concluded that heat-pumps are the most cost-optimal electric heating technology for most UK homes. To improve the Government's understanding of the potential role of infrared heating in decarbonising heat, BEIS has commenced a further programme of evidence gathering on the performance of these systems relative to other technologies.

^[1] Cost Optimal Domestic Electrification (CODE): research study

Ref: BEIS Research Paper Number: 2021/051, published September 2021. (Viewed on 24 January 2023)