Innovations to make heat pumps cheaper and easier to install have been backed by more than £15m in government funding.
The funding is part of the government’s £60m Heat Pump Ready programme, which is developing solutions for reducing barriers to the rollout of low carbon technology in homes and businesses across the UK.
This comes alongside the government’s £450m Boiler Upgrade Scheme, that provides £5,000 grants to homeowners towards the cost of a heat pump and a zero rate of VAT.
Lord Callanan, business and energy minister, said: “Heat pumps are a proven, reliable technology that uses cheaper renewable energy produced in the UK.
“We are already bringing costs down through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme and slashing VAT to zero, but by finding innovative ways to make them even cheaper and easier to install.”
Working with industry, the government is aiming for heat pumps to cost the same as fossil fuel boilers to buy and run by 2030 at the latest with big reductions of at least 25-50% by 2025.