£14 million cash boost to accelerate rollout of low carbon heating

More than £14 million is being made available to accelerate the installation of heat pumps and heat networks across the country, as a new scheme launches to train thousands of installers.
 
Over £9.7 million will go towards 4 projects based across the country, from Bristol to Cambridgeshire - helping cut costs of these low carbon technologies, and reducing disruption to consumers by coordinating the wide-spread rollout in concentrated areas.
 
A new £5 million Heat Training Grant will support 10,000 trainees over the next 2 years to become low carbon heating experts.
 
Phil Hurley, Chair of the HPA, welcomed the move to introduce a training grant: “Installers are the most important ambassadors of heat pumps to the consumer, and the HPA warmly welcomes this scheme to support them build on their existing skill base to become the green heating installers of the future. This is exactly the sort of early-bird support we have called for.
 
“We already have the building blocks in place – our own training course and capacity among our members to train 40,000 installers per year. This government scheme will give the industry a real boost in helping installers upskill for heat pumps to take over from gas boilers as the go-to heating technology for new and replacement systems alike in the majority of homes.”