‘No one saves the planet if it hits their pocket’: UK heat pump installers fear planned subsidy cuts

‘It’s going to damage us as a company,’ said Bill Tuck, operations director at Sustain Homes in Watford. Photograph: Supplied

When Bill Tuck first started installing air source heat pumps six years ago, other heating engineers were skeptical about whether the green technology would take off. “Now, the conversation is completely different,” he said.

“I’m getting approached by them saying: ‘Mrs Jones, my customer for 15 years, she’s enquiring about a heat pump. What can you tell me?’ The whole narrative has changed.”