Under the BUS? How the heat pump wars turned nasty

James Murray
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Credit: Octopus Energy

Only a third of budget for government's flagship Boiler Upgrade Scheme was deployed in its first year, but heat pump advocates insist reports of the grant programmes failure are both premature and exaggerated

Has the government's Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) flopped? That is the contention of a number of gas industry lobbyists and net zero sceptics who have responded to recent government figures on the uptake...

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