Heating: Housing

(asked on 18th August 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, what steps his Department is taking to assist the energy and heating sector in moving its customers off traditional domestic gas boilers.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 10th September 2021

The domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), provides financial support in installments to homeowners, for the generation of heat through low carbon technologies such as heat pumps. The scheme, which launched in 2014, will remain open to new applicants until March 2022.

The successor scheme to the RHI, the Clean Heat Grant, which is due to launch in Spring 2022, will provide upfront capital grants for the installation of heat pumps and, in limited circumstances, biomass boilers in both domestic and small nondomestic buildings. This support will help grow confidence in these low carbon technologies and supply chains and help address the barrier of upfront costs faced by many consumers. We will publish our Government Response with details of the scheme and scheme eligibility in due course.

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