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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey and Jillian Ambrose

No ban on gas boilers in UK warm homes plan but heat pumps get £2.7bn push

Technician works on a heat pump on the outside of a building
The government is aiming to instal 450,000 heat pumps a year by 2030. Photograph: JulPo/Getty Images

There will be no phaseout date for gas boilers in the government’s warm homes plan despite its pledge to wean the UK off fossil fuels, but billions of pounds will go towards heat pumps and insulation upgrades.

Labour’s principal attempt to solve the UK’s cost of living crisis, the £15bn warm homes plan, will overhaul 5m dwellings, aiming to cut energy bills by as much as £1,000 a year, in the biggest public investment yet made into home upgrades.

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