Installers express doubts over heat pump rollout

Electrically powered heat pumps are seen by many as a key technology to transition domestic heating away from the gas-fired boilers that are widely in place across today’s UK housing stock.  Commissioned by Baxi – a manufacturer of both boilers and heat pumps – the report comes in the wake of government plans to roll out the installation of 600,000 domestic heat pumps a year by 2028.

The leading concern amongst installers was the question of customer demand, with 56 per cent of respondents saying this was an area that needed to be addressed. Although government support for heat pump installation is available, there have been claims that the scheme is confusing and that the financial incentives on offer are not adequate to meet the government’s rollout targets.  The current Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays a max £5,000 grant to support air source heat pump installations and ends in 2025.