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Households in England and Wales to be offered new £5,000 Government grant from April 2022

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Brits wanting to fit a low-carbon heat pump in their homes in England and Wales could receive a £5,000 grant from the Government to help replace less efficient gas boilers from April 2022.
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I wonder if they will stop requiring the systems to be air to water heater pumps to qualify for these government schemes when mini split air to air heater pumps make a lot more sense instead of low temperature radiators as they would have a higher COP and will they be required to have a COP of at least 3 at -18ºc. Then has a feasibility assessment being done on all of this as the only realistic replacement of natural gas central heating (don't forget about on demand hot water and the space that would be needed for hot water tanks) with current technology is district heating with inter-seasonal heat storage.
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I very much doubt if they will make it a simple scheme - by the time the civil service have got involved ,it will need multiple surveys, many forms and ,as you suspect, will be a license for the cowboys (sorry -installers) to inflate all the prices to the point where only the wealthy will be able to afford a fully specified system.
And are the manufacturers going to be able to produce the heat pumps needed in the relatively short timescales ? I suspect not !!
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