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The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has recently submitted to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) responses to their three consultations on fossil fuel heating.
The three separate consultations UKGBC have responded to are:
Jenny Holland, Public Affairs & Policy Specialist at the UK Green Building Council, said: “We warmly welcome the Government’s proposals to phase out the installation of fossil fuel heating in off-grid buildings. This will be a vital early step on our net zero journey.
“However, Government must ensure that low income and vulnerable households are not penalised by any new regulation.
“In particular, the Home Upgrade Grant scheme must continue beyond its anticipated end date of April 2025 and the funding for it must be at levels commensurate with household need.
“We also welcome the proposed market-based mechanism for low carbon heat, which would see an obligation placed on companies selling fossil fuel heating appliances to achieve a growing number of heat pump installations in parallel. It should help drive up heat pump installations from their current level of around 30,000 a year. However, to achieve Government’s target of 600,000 annual installations by 2028 – let alone the 900,000 installations that the Climate Change Committee say are needed by the same year – a raft of further measures is needed to drive consumer demand.
“These should include a stamp duty incentive, a successor to the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme and action to reduce the cost of electricity relative to gas while protecting vulnerable customers.”
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