The UK's Boiler Upgrade Scheme showing a 49 per cent increase in voucher applications and vouchers issued in January 2024, compared to January 2023.

Up to the end of January, the scheme has now received 33,424 applications in total and has issued more than £133 million in vouchers to customers.

The news follows recent Government figures showing the UK is the first major economy to halve its emissions – having cut them by 50 per cent between 1990 and 2022, while also growing its economy by 79 per cent.

The South West has seen the most with 3,894 installations, followed by the South East with 3,886 and then the East with 2,671.

Chief executive of the Heat Pump Association, Charlotte Lee, said: “The uplift in the grant value for air source and ground source heat pumps in October 2023 to £7,500 has been well received by both the sector and consumers and we hope this increasing interest will be a trend which continues forward as we move to decarbonise home heating in line with the Government’s legally binding net-zero targets.”

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