That’s the warning from industry body, the Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA), who has slammed the Government’s Heat and Building Strategy unveiled last October, which includes a key commitment of mass heat pump rollouts in British homes instead of gas boilers. 

Claiming the strategy is “now dead in the water”, EUA Chief Executive Mike Foster says the Government is out of touch with the public. 

Mike says: “Research dictates a quarter of UK households across the UK have no savings, with some areas like the West Midlands at 42%. To continue to have a policy that asks people in the middle of an energy crisis to fit a heat pump costing as much as £10,000 is frankly perverse. The Government needs to urgently come up with a credible domestic heating strategy that gives us a roadmap to heat our homes and deliver Net Zero.” 

The Government is currently subsidising a first wave of 90,000 heat pumps – the Boiler Upgrade Scheme - with a taxpayer subsidy of £5,000 that is costing £450 million.