'Energy policy face palm': Heat pump firms call on government to rethink clean heat plans

Cecilia Keating
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Low Carbon Farming, Black Mountain and Zero Carbon Yorkshire have joined a campaign that calls on the government to revise its low carbon heat strategy to support the development of large-scale heat pumps, a sector they contend could help the UK drive a green recovery to the pandemic.

A coalition of companies has today called on the government to expand its low carbon heat strategy to include support for large-scale heat pumps, warning that a failure to do so would undermine decarbonisation...

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