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The UK must rapidly scale-up work to expand heat pumps installations and district heating use, the country’s independent environmental watchdog warns.
New findings from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) that chart the country’s progress to become a net zero economy are highly critical of the pace of heat pumps installations. The report also called for authorities in England to implement a comprehensive national plan to retrofit existing buildings to be more energy efficient.
The CCC concluded in its report that the government has pinned the majority of its decarbonisation plans on technologies that the country had so far failed to deploy at scale – notably in the case of heat pumps.
It stated: “The committee has again flagged the risks of a policy programme that amongst other things is too slow to plant trees and roll-out heat pumps.”
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