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    Air con for your home could become part of £7.5k heat-pump grant

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    1. BestButtons on

      > The government is actively considering extending the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS), which currently contributes £7,500 each towards heat pumps, to systems that can also cool homes.

      > The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said it was looking at extending the scheme to include air-to-air systems as part of “action to futureproof homes and communities”.

      > While no decision has been taken to extend the scheme to air-to-air units that can provide AC, it is likely that it would come at no extra cost to the government, which has budgeted a total of nearly £2bn in funding for the BUS up to March 2028.

      Forward looking policies for a change.

    2. Ok_Tax_9386 on

      Ahh interesting.

      I thought all heat pumps were also AC already. Surprised any are made that don’t do both honestly.

    3. Krabsandwich on

      Excellent idea I keep seeing projections showing the number of heat related deaths rising year on year. Providing people the chance to have AC in the summer and heating in the winter from the same unit is a no brainer. Helps keep the vulnerable safer and gives everyone else a decent nights sleep pretty good plan if it happens.

    5. BatVisual5631 on

      Bit annoyed that I have just redone my house. Air to water heat pump wouldn’t work due to space limitations but air to air would have worked very well. However without the grant it was prohibitively expensive. Too late!

    7. Elegant-Lobster-4025 on

      Right as I’m looking at it. Can guarantee if I hold off and wait it won’t happen, if I do it it will happen straight after

    8. tskir on

      Excellent news, I wonder how this will work. We currently have a combi boiler which provides both heating and on demand hot water. My understanding is that air to air heat pumps cannot provide hot water at all; only cooling and heating.

      Provided these changes are implemented, does this mean I’ll be able to use the grant to install a heat pump to use for heating & cooling, and continue to use the gas boiler for hot water?

    9. AveryLakotaValiant on

      Sounds great, but can you imagine running A/C in the UK with our electricity prices?

      I have one of those portable A/C units which I rarely use, except on the hottest of nights and it’s stupidly expensive to run that one unit, imagine running a system that covers the whole house?

    10. Blank3k on

      I thought heat pumps actually did hot/cold generally speaking I was quite surprised UK roll out seemed to consist of only heating.

    11. Spamgrenade on

      FFS. Maybe you will really need to use air con maybe 14 days a year. If that. Even then, its not really that hot, it’s just British people aren’t used to high temperatures. Even with global warming its going to be a long time before AC is actually required in this country. Waste of money and its only going to be better off people who will be able to afford to take advantage in the first place.

    12. FlimsyDistance9437 on

      Going to need cheaper electricity before this is even remotely affordable for the majority. 

    13. GendhisKhan on

      I need to replace my current condemned boiler. My house is an ’85 build and currently has a vented cylinder.

      I want to switch to a combi to free up space (small 2 bed), but feel like in 10 years time I’ll regret getting rid of the tank. I cannot see how much bungalow could be heat pump compatible though.

    14. TheCrunker on

      Oh great, just when I’ve paid to have it installed!

      But in all seriousness, A2A heat pumps are brilliant and should be more widespread. In the Scandinavian countries (which have the most widespread use of heat pumps) a2a is the most prevalent heat pump

    15. Practical_Field_603 on

      Not really needed for a couple days of 30 degree weather. As much as i hate the heat, genuinely can’t see why this is needed

    16. Informal_Safe_5351 on

      Fucking do it. There is zero reason not to have AC as standard in our homes now especially as it can be more efficient now.

    17. jvlomax on

      When I looked into heat pumps, this is the reason I held off on them. With the way our summers are going, we’re going to need some level of AC in the near future

    18. klawUK on

      I assume it would have to be combined with removal of a gas boiler heating system which is what it was originally designed for

      How would they handle those with combis? I’d be tempted to get a while house AC multi split for heating (with bonus if cooling in summer) if I could maintain my combo for hot water heating

    19. Sea-Caterpillar-255 on

      About the only up side of heat pumps is they can be used as air con…

    20. Fambeephyal on

      The house I’m currently looking at buying has Warm Air Heating with several air ducts in the different rooms.

      Could this be a potential replacement for the warm air unit and work with the current ducts in the house or would it not be eligible?

    21. berejser on

      A heat pump **is** air con. It’s literally a condenser and an evaporator that moves a refrigerant between a hot side and a cold side, just like with air con. The difference is that heat pumps can switch which side is the hot side and which side is the cold side.