The government has unveiled a major package of loans and grants for renewable tech to cut household energy bills, but has stopped short of committing to a 2035 ban on new gas boilers.
The long-awaited warm homes plan has been unveiled by the Labour government, which focuses on incentives to install green technology such as solar panels, heat pumps and batteries with no legally binding phase-out on gas boilers.
Originally gas boilers were meant to be banned from 2035 but the warm homes plan makes no mention of this. Instead it focuses on various incentives to encourage households to install green technologies to help cut household energy bills.
According to the government, the plan will help bring down the costs of home clean energy products. The hope is that by enabling homeowners to apply for government-backed, low- and zero- interest loans to install solar panels, batteries and heat pumps, it will unleash a “rooftop revolution”.
Under the plan, low-income households and those in fuel...