This can include adverts from us and 2 rd parties based on our understanding. The government announced today its plans to reduce the cost of clean energy, including 5,000 grants to allow people to install home heat pumps and other low-carbon boiler replacements. The new Heat and Buildings Strategy contains a commitment to funding totalling 3.9 bn to decarbonise buildings and how they are heated, with a confirmed 2035 target for all new heating systems in UK homes to be energy-efficient. The scheme is expected to be a pillar of Mr Johnson's new Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution and will be formally unveiled today alongside his net zero strategy.
But Mike Foster, the CEO of the Energy Utilities Alliance is not so impressed. He said: The Clean Homes Grant announcement of 450 million, over the next three years, hardly sets the world ablaze. It subsidises 30,000 heat pumps being installed each year and is well short of the support needed to get to 600,000 heat pumps installed each year by 2028. It suggests the Prime Minister is putting the brakes on the British Prime Minister's flight of Green Magic. Foster also pointed out that the 5,000 grant on offer risks alienating low-income households as it only pays half the cost of a heat pump He stated: It's a middle-class bingel for people who were probably going to fit a heat pump anyway. For the same amount of money, 150 million a year, half a million homes could have loft insulation installed, saving each household 135 a year and removing 290,000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year. Instead, replacing 30,000 gas boilers with subsidised heat pumps will reduce 48,000 tonnes of carbon each year. READ MORE: Russian Governor returns from his promise: Putin checksmates with EU and sends gas prices soaring.