The UK's Warm Homes Plan: options for public loan schemes

Andy King, Virginia Sentance, Lauren Milner and Ellen Brett

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Abstract: Decarbonising domestic heating is one of the most challenging elements of the UK’s net zero transition. The largest single challenge is to replace around 23 million gas boilers with low-carbon heating technologies – i.e. those that use electricity generated from renewable sources rather than gas. Heat pumps are the primary tool for low-carbon heating and are central to the sector’s electrification. Although well-established internationally, the proportion of households in the UK with a heat pump is among the lowest in Europe. This policy insight reviews different potential loan models for households purchasing heat pumps, in the context of the UK Government having allocated £5 billion of ‘financial transactions’ to the Warm Homes Plan, exploiting the flexibility offered by its new balance sheet fiscal target.

JEL-codes: E6 J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2025-11-30
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