Renewable Energy: Heating

(asked on 9th March 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many heat pumps have been installed in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) England with support from the Renewable Heat Incentive in each year since 2014.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 18th March 2021

The number of heat pumps that have been installed with the support of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) (i.e., accredited applications to the scheme), are shown in the tables below split by domestic and non-domestic applications. Further data is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-heat-incentive-statistics.

Domestic RHI supported heat pumps

England

Wales

Scotland

Total accreditations

Year

Air source heat pump

Ground source heat pump

Air source heat pump

Ground source heat pump

Air source heat pump

Ground source heat pump

Air source heat pump

Ground source heat pump

2014

4,824

1,934

374

206

700

361

5,898

2,501

2015

8,101

2,798

453

282

3,029

382

11,583

3,462

2016

3,669

913

191

139

1,017

161

4,877

1,213

2017

4,162

867

312

130

803

165

5,277

1,162

2018

3,918

689

274

86

928

118

5,120

893

2019

7,278

903

453

106

1,612

178

9,343

1,187

2020

7,251

849

562

137

1,787

154

9,600

1,140

2021

572

63

72

19

157

11

801

93

Total

39,775

9,016

2,691

1,105

10,033

1,530

52,499

11,651

Source: data underlying the RHI deployment statistics, https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-heat-incentive-statistics

Non-domestic RHI supported heat pumps

England

Wales

Scotland

Total accreditations

Air source heat pump

Ground or water source heat pumps

Air source heat pump

Ground or water source heat pumps

Air source heat pump

Ground or water source heat pumps

Air source heat pump

Ground or water source heat pumps

2011

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

2

2012

0

27

0

3

0

6

0

36

2013

0

52

0

4

0

6

0

62

2014

2

74

0

10

0

9

2

93

2015

107

182

3

13

3

18

113

213

2016

96

262

6

17

29

18

131

297

2017

103

111

10

7

6

13

119

131

2018

82

147

2

12

15

14

99

173

2019

54

218

9

9

15

15

78

242

2020

112

374

13

15

10

81

135

470

2021

3

25

0

2

0

13

3

40

Total

559

1,474

43

92

78

193

680

1,759

Source: data underlying the RHI deployment statistics, https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-heat-incentive-statistics

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