Heat pumps handed major boost as MPs tear apart UK’s ‘alternative gas’ boiler strategy

After highlighting some more uses in the energy storage and industrial sectors, the MPs said: “This limited—rather than universal—use of hydrogen should inform Government decisions.

“For example, we disagree with the Climate Change Committee’s recommendation that the Government should mandate new domestic boilers to be hydrogen-ready from 2025.

“In the words of one of the witnesses to our inquiry, hydrogen is likely to be a ‘big niche’ where it will play a major role in certain sectors of the economy, and be a ‘huge growth story’ over the next 30 years, but ‘it will not be everything’.”

Commenting on the Committee’s report, Gareth Redmond-King, Head of the International Programme at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) hailed heat pumps as the future of heating homes in the UK. 

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