Exploring the role of alternative clean heating solutions

The government is committed to decarbonising the way we heat our buildings to protect consumers against high energy bills due to volatile global fossil fuel prices, reduce the UK’s dependence on foreign sources of energy and combat climate change. In that process, the government is committed to ensuring there is a good solution for every building and that consumers have access to a range of suitable low-carbon heat technologies. Heat pumps, along with heat networks, will be the primary low-carbon technologies for decarbonising home and non-domestic heating. These are existing, technically mature low-carbon technologies, deployable at scale and as such are expected to play a significant role in decarbonising heat in every pathway to net zero. However, the government is interested in understanding what alternative technologies are available across different types of domestic and non-domestic buildings to ensure consumers hav