The Heat Pump Federation is urging for “consistency of policy” as the impact on installers is highlighted. Last week, it was reported that the £2 billion Green Homes Grant – designed to provide vouchers for green home improvements including the installation of heat pumps – is to close early in March 2021. Speaking to Current±, the Heat Pump Federation’s Bean Beanland said that the problem is not “so much the specifics about why this particular scheme was thrown up very quickly and then withdrawn very quickly, if indeed it is withdrawn”, but with the “overall messaging.” This is particularly concerning given the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan outlining a target of 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028, which Beanland said requires a “significant scaling up”. “We need consistency of policy, it needs to be very long term and it ideally needs to be cross party.”
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