Heat pumps will play a big part in the UK government’s commitments towards a net zero future. Within their 2020 Energy White Paper: Powering our Net Zero Future, the government has set the ambitious target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028. Though it is predicted that annual global sales of heat pumps will double by 2030 to 20.8m units, currently less than 1% of UK homes have them. But what are heat pumps?
Generating, supplying and using renewable energy is becoming common practice and, the success of wind and solar farms, has meant that subsidies for such investments have all but stopped. Continuing their path to net zero, the UK government set clear their plans for further renewable technologies in their Energy white paper: Powering our net zero future and one of their strategies to help reach their target is to invest in hydrogen technologies and transition away from natural gas.
This is the 4th edition of our “Energy In” series, where we look at upcoming events, key dates and news within the environmental and energy landscape for the year ahead.
While lockdown may have caused many of us to grind to a halt, the world has continued to turn. More wildfires have burned through California than in 2019 and this year’s Arctic fires released the same amount of carbon as Belgium does in a year. Despite human activity slowing down, the climate has carried on regardless.