The aim of the Electrification of Heat demonstration project, funded by the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, is to better understand how we can speed up the rollout of heat pumps in homes across the UK.
Tens of thousands of heat pumps have already been installed across the UK. Powered by electricity, which is becoming increasingly low carbon as more renewable sources are connected to the gird, heat pumps are already extremely low carbon heating options.
This means that heat pumps have a crucial role to play in helping to decarbonise our heating systems, which is important if the UK is to meet its net zero target in 2050.