CCC reveals ambitious home energy targets

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has published its Seventh Carbon Budget report, which features ambitious home energy targets.

These include around half of homes in the UK being heated by a heat pump by 2040, compared to around 1% in 2023.

However, the Plumbing and Heating Federation has criticised these 2040 heat pump targets as “completely detached from reality”. It warns that without a trained workforce to install them, these targets amount to little more than empty ambitions.

Fiona Hodgson, Chief Executive of the Plumbing and Heating Federation, said: “Heat pump adoption cannot be driven by wishful thinking. The CCC and successive Westminster and devolved governments keep setting ambitious targets while ignoring the fundamental issue: there simply are not enough trained professionals to install them.

“Without serious investment in skills training and workforce expansion, the UK will fail to meet its heat pump targets. All governments need to stop offloading responsibility onto businesses and take action to ensure we have the people to deliver this transition.”

Read the full CCC report at b.link/CCC_7th

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