UK 'heat pumps' fail as green devices, finds study

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Badly installed heat pumps would not be recognised as renewable energy under proposed European standards, says the Energy Saving Trust

Government plans to subsidise green heating are challenged today by the largest ever field study of "heat pump" devices in the UK, which reveals 80% perform so badly they would not qualify as renewable...

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