'I can confidently say they do work': Trial offers free heat pumps to heating engineers

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Study finds heating engineers who are given free heat pumps to install in their own home can help build confidence in low carbon technology

Heating engineers who received free heat pumps as part of a pilot project that trained them to install the technology in their own homes were more confident and knowledgeable when it came to installing...

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