It's not as simple as having a tree-hugging son. Making the switch to a heat pump takes a little more forethought.

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The benefits of heat pumps and electrification are well known for industry professionals, technicians, and dealers, but the information gap lies amongst homeowners. Heat pumps are more energy ...

Record numbers of heat pumps were installed in UK homes in 2024, new figures show. The increase was partly due to a grant designed to help people in England and Wales switch from gas boilers.

The conservative bloc’s manifesto promised to reverse a number of green policies that had proved divisive for the previous government, such as scaling up electric vehicles and heat pump sales.

Around a third of the emissions cuts between 2038 to 2042 will have to come from action by households, the Government's climate watchdog says Heat pumps have the capacity to produce around three ...

LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Britain must end its reliance on fossil fuels, switch to electric vehicles and heat pumps, and eat less meat to reach its 2050 net zero target, the country's climate ...

Four in five cars should be electric and half of homes should have heat pumps within 15 years, say the government's independent climate advisers. By law the UK must reach "net zero" - no longer ...

In its latest advice, known as the carbon budget, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) says by 2040, 80% of cars should be electric and one in two homes have a heat pump. Decarbonising home heating ...