The Latest Breaking News from Energy Efficiency

The UK aims to replace 1.7 million gas boilers a year by the mid-2030s, as part of its plan to reach net zero. This will require rapidly scaling up the installation of heat pumps which can run on renewable electricity. Just 67,000 were installed in 2021.

Upgrading homes with poor energy efficiency ratings would lower the cost of the Government’s energy price guarantee, analysis shows.

The energy price cap will rise to a record £4,289 in January. Except families won’t feel it, thanks to the Government’s Energy Price Guarantee, which ensures that the average household will pay no more than £2,500. That is, until April.

Among the grim news in Jeremy Hunt’s recent autumn statement was an attempt to square the circle on energy bills. Funding for the Energy Price Guarantee that aims to limit household energy prices will continue throughout the 2023-24 financial year. But the level of support available after this winter will…